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West's wild words stir again: US rapper Kanye calls slavery a 'choice'

[2018-05-03 07:31]

LOS ANGELES - Before the last one had a chance to simmer down, Kanye West caused another stir, calling US slavery a "choice" in an interview on Tuesday.

Home for the final days

[2018-05-03 07:31]

TOKYO - Doctor Bunyu Ogasawara, 69, who operates the Ogasawara Clinic in Gifu, fulfills the wishes of patients who want to spend their final days in their own home. Last year, the clinic where Ogasawara is director cared for 88 patients at home, including people with terminal cancer, when they died.

Testing time ahead for UK's new royal

[2018-05-02 07:17]

LONDON - US actress Meghan Markle will join Britain's royal family when she marries Prince Harry this month, but before she can become a British citizen, it will help her to know how big the Lake District is and the age of "Big Ben".

Mount Fuji eruption could paralyze Tokyo, says report

[2018-05-02 07:17]

TOKYO - Japan's iconic Mount Fuji could paralyze Tokyo with ash if it erupted, choking roads and halting water supplies, according to a government disaster planning study, a news report said on Tuesday.

Remains of US Marine coming home after 6 decades

[2018-05-02 07:17]

CONCORD, New Hampshire - For nearly six decades, a United States Marine Corps sergeant's family lived under the misconception that his body was lost at sea during World War II.

Ghana company constructs novel solution for plastic waste

[2018-05-02 07:17]

ACCRA - Ghana generates around 22,000 tons of plastic waste per year but it recycles only about 2 percent.

Nobel scandals leave prospect of awards in doubt

[2018-05-02 07:17]

COPENHAGEN - For the first time since 1943, there's a notable risk that no Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year.

BEAUTY IN WHITE AND RED

[2018-05-01 07:44]

Her fascination with the only member of the genus Nipponia capture these beauties on canvas, write Huo Yan and Li Yang

The art and craft of paper cutting

[2018-05-01 07:44]

The first thing that greets visitors at Gao Fengying's home is a stocky, floccose burro foal. "It was born just last week ...," says Gao Lailiang, Fengying's father, apologetically. "Even Fengying has not seen the new member of our family. She is too busy with her paper-cutting course in the town," Gao Senior says.

Minding the machine: the AI race

[2018-04-30 07:51]

It's the hottest thing in technology now, but the co-founder of Google said: "I didn't see it coming, even though I was sitting right there".

'Automata Studies' becomes 'Artificial Intelligence' and a new science is born

[2018-04-30 07:51]

In 1956, John McCarthy, an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, called for research on "Automata Studies". But few people understood what he meant, so he came up with another phrase for the research he was promoting: artificial intelligence.

Global market for AI: $37 billion by 2025, 26% of China's GDP by 2030

[2018-04-30 07:51]

The global market for AI is projected to reach $37 billion in revenue by 2025, a 57-fold increase from $644 million in 2016, according to a new report from Tractica, a Boulder, Colorado-based market intelligence firm that focuses on human interaction with technology.

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