Back to the day job for stars after Olympics

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - For the past two weeks they have been feted as Olympians, but many of the men and women at the Pyeongchang Winter Games will this week return to their jobs and the humdrum of daily life.

All in good taste as chocolate fans pore over festival

LISBON - Day-trippers from across Portugal enjoyed a tasty treat on Sunday as they descended on Obidos, a hilltop town on the west coast, for a chocolate festival.

Ex-players team up to tackle dementia in soccer-mad Spain

MADRID - Eight senior citizens huddled around a table stare at a photo of a young Diego Maradona in a red and blue FC Barcelona jersey projected onto a screen at a Madrid retirement home.

Drought-hit Malawi farmers use sugar, fish soup to battle pests

DEDZA, Malawi - Armed with fish soup and neem leaves, as well as chemical pesticides, Malawi's drought-hit farmers are fighting a caterpillar that is devouring their crops and putting them at risk of hunger.

US cautious over talks with DPRK

The White House said on Monday it would "wait and see" whether the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's hope for talks with the United States means it is serious about denuclearization, after Pyongyang said it was willing to hold talks with Washington.

Five dead after explosion in store

Five people have been killed and four more are in hospital, with one having serious injuries, after an explosion destroyed a shop in the English city of Leicester on Sunday night.

Nigeria confirms 110 girls missing after Boko Haram school attack

ABUJA - The Nigerian government has confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the northeast, following days of silence on the children's fate.

After shooting, students make emotional return

MIAMI - Students and teachers returned on Sunday to a Florida school for the first time since 17 people were shot dead there, consoling each other even as they called for swift action to address gun violence.

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Women give Games a sporting chance

GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Some volunteers are former athletes, some are doctors, one is a small-town mayor. They come from all over the world - Russia, China, the United States. The oldest is 88.

Czech schoolboy maps his life from disabled to designer

CERNOSICE, Czech Republic - The toy cars, double-deckers, stuffed toys and pillows on his bed are meticulously ordered into neat rows, but Matej Hosek still inspects his room with a frown, looking for shortcomings.

On the trail of the 'African Mona Lisa'

ILE-IFE, Nigeria - She's been described as "the African Mona Lisa", the subject of a long-lost series of three paintings by the artist considered the father of Nigerian modernism.