NEW YORK - Three years ago, Starbucks was widely ridiculed for trying to start a national conversation on equality by asking its employees to write the words "Race Together" on coffee cups. The initiative, though it backfired, was in line with the company's longstanding effort to project a progressive and inclusive image.
TOKYO - A Japanese minister apologized on Tuesday over the escape of a "model" inmate who fled an open prison more than a week ago, as the number of police hunting him passed 6,000.
PARIS - A child's health can be compromised not only by a mother who smokes or drinks during pregnancy, but by the obesity and poor diet of both parents well before the act of procreation, researchers said on Tuesday.
WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut - Between raising two daughters and working as a dishwasher at a supermarket, Lhakpa Sherpa just doesn't have time for training to climb Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest. Even so, she has done it a record eight times and hopes to outdo herself yet again.
TAMPA, Florida - Scientists in the US and Britain have accidentally engineered an enzyme which can digest some of the most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems.
SEOUL - A discotheque hidden among the back alleys of eastern Seoul is packed with hundreds of grey-haired couples on a Monday afternoon, dancing to local hits from the 1960s in a basketball court-sized hall.
MANILA - Although her husband nearly killed her, Krista Dador cannot get a divorce as the Philippines is one of only two states - along with the Vatican - without a divorce law.
TIRANA, Albania - With feathers on its head that make it look like it is wearing a wig, it does not go unnoticed - the Dalmatian pelican is back with a flourish in the Divjaka Lagoon in western Albania.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Somad rarely ventures beyond his impoverished Jakarta neighborhood, but the 14-year-old is now gearing for a trip to Russia next month as a player in the 2018 Street Child World Cup.
HANOI - For Will Frith, born in the United States to a US father and Vietnamese mother, a visit to Vietnam in 2004 ignited a passion for coffee that would change his life.
GAZA - Palestinian journalists have recently realized that they have become a target of Israeli soldiers while they were covering the mass protests on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
DUBLIN - Ireland's O'Connell Tower reopened to the public on Saturday after it closed 47 years ago following a bomb attack whose perpetrator has still not been officially identified.
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