LONDON - A pet parrot managed to place an online shopping order by mimicking its owner on a voice-controlled smart speaker, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday.
LONDON - Oliver and Olivia have emerged as the most popular names for babies born in England and Wales last year, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY - After earning fame burrowing into piles of rubble in disasters the world over, including the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Mexico's "mole" rescue workers are on tragically familiar ground, pulling people from ruins in their home city.
TOKYO - Nuclear fuel reprocessed in France returned to Japan on Thursday for use in a reactor as the country tries to burn more plutonium amid international concerns about its stockpile.
LOS ANGELES - California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's plan to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand navy vessel will ferry diesel fuel around the country as the government rushes to alleviate a dayslong fuel shortage that has cast air travel into disarray in the run-up to Saturday's national election.
VIENNA - A survey of Muslims in 15 European Union countries finds most are willing to embrace non-Muslims, but they often feel rebuffed by the majority populations of the places they live.
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Just a few kilometers from the Ring Road in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu on Tuesday, colorful balloons and national flags of Nepal and China dominated the street leading to a community school.
BRUSSELS - An intact German World War I submarine containing the bodies of 23 people has been found off the coast of Belgium, authorities said on Tuesday.
TETIAROA, France - An exotic island paradise in French Polynesia bought by Marlon Brando in the 1960s is using its Hollywood image to tackle environmental issues - with a little help from its jetset visitors.
WASHINGTON - Scientists have cracked the code of how butterflies get their wing patterns, according to a study published recently in the scientific magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
NEW YORK - More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by key anti-slavery groups to estimate the number of victims worldwide of the international crime.
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