GENEVA - With a total deck surface roughly the size of a football pitch, The Manta, the first seagoing boat capable of collecting large quantities of macro plastic waste floating on oceans, was definitely the star on the first day of the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva on Wednesday.
TOKYO - Masazo Nonaka has enjoyed soaking in northern Japan's hot springs for many years - probably longer than most people.
LONDON - Fans of BBC expressed their shock and anger on social media after the broadcasting corporation admitted in a statement last week that scenes from its documentary series Human Planet were staged by the camera crew.
STOCKHOLM - The Nobel Foundation Board has sharply criticized the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Literature Prize winner each year, saying the group has damaged its own reputation and is threatening to tarnish the reputation of the Nobel Prize itself.
A fossil of a human finger found by British archaeologists in Saudi Arabia supports a theory long held by Chinese researchers that modern humans left Africa and migrated to China tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
TOKYO - Japanese researchers have mapped vast reserves of rare earth elements in deep-sea mud, enough to feed global demand on a "semi-infinite basis", according to a fresh study.
KONNOS BAY, Cyprus - Equipped with harpoons and waterproof notebooks, Louis, Carlos and Antonis dive deep into the crystal clear waters of Konnos Bay on a mission to capture predatory lionfish.
The head of the International Monetary Fund is calling on countries to steer clear of protectionism in order to sustain global growth.
FRANKFURT - Thousands of passengers were left stranded at German airports on Tuesday as more than 60,000 ground staff and other public sector workers staged walkouts across the country to increase the pressure in a pay dispute.
BANGKOK - At 79, Thai businessman Boon Vasin's latest $500 million venture is a bet on a market he knows well - looking after Thailand's rapidly growing population of old people.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied on Wednesday that he had intervened to secure preferential treatment for a friend's plan to set up a veterinary school despite new reports he had discussed the matter with the friend.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Deaths from drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Indonesia have exceeded 100 this month, police said on Wednesday as they vowed a "scorched-earth" crackdown on the makers and distributors of black-market liquor.
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