FUKUSHIMA, Japan - On a cold day in February, Takuto Okamoto guided his first tour group to a sight few outsiders had witnessed in person: the construction cranes looming over Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
UNITED NATIONS - The vacant seat on the UN Human Rights Council left by the United States will be filled by a member from the same regional group, said the spokesman of Miroslav Lajcak, president of the UN General Assembly, on Wednesday.
London's commuters will be riding on 68 new zero-emission double-decker buses next summer, a fleet that will largely be possible as a result of China-UK collaboration.
MOSCOW - The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday accused the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of strengthening combat forces near Russia's border and warned that Moscow will take mirror-like actions against NATO's moves.
TOKYO - At a casino school in Tokyo, croupier-in-training Takuto Saito settles behind a green table and reaches for the roulette wheel, addressing a group of imaginary punters: "Spin up. Place your bets."
NEW YORK - If meat is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called?
GHENT, Belgium - A painstaking restoration of the "Mystic Lamb", a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece by the Van Eyck brothers, was unveiled on Tuesday, revealing a "much more expressive and intense" version of the central image of the giant altarpiece.
MEXICO CITY - Cultural exchanges between Latin America and China over the past four decades have brought the two distant regions closer together, Latin American academics, students and diplomats said.
BAZOUL, Burkina Faso - Crocodiles may be one of the deadliest hunters in the animal kingdom, but in a small village in Burkina Faso, it is not unusual to see someone sitting atop one of the fearsome reptiles.
NAIROBI - Felix Asuma was determined at a tender age to pursue civil engineering with the aim of participating in modernization of Kenya's transport infrastructure.
VALENCIA, Spain - Photojournalist Oscar Corral, who arrived on Sunday at the eastern Spanish port of Valencia along with more than 600 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, said he had experienced the most intense week of his life.
INVERNESS, Scotland - Tales of a giant creature lurking beneath the murky waves of Loch Ness have been around for more than 1,500 years - and one academic hopes the marvels of modern science can finally unravel the mystery.
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