LONDON - Schoolboy climber Edward Mills, aged 8, has become the youngest person ever to scale a famous rocky column in Scotland known as the Old Man of Hoy.
CAIRO - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali vowed on Sunday that Ethiopia will not harm Egypt's share of the Nile River water through the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD.
SAGUA LA GRANDE, Cuba - At a midday, sunshine falls vertically on a dusty street in the Cuban town of Sagua La Grande, the birthplace of the late Wifredo Lam, the son of a Chinese-Cuban couple and one of Cuba's most revered artists.
BADRA, Iraq - While some places are known for producing oil or textiles, a small town in eastern Iraq boasts its own special conveyor belt - churning out weightlifting champions.
NEW YORK - Not a single copy of The Poppy War was left, even for Rebecca F. Kuang herself, after a signing event at BookCon 2018 held in Javits Center over the weekend.
HANOI - In a darkened theater in central Hanoi, a wooden dragon emerges from a pool to the sound of cymbals crashing in a traditional water puppet show that lures hundreds of tourists daily but is largely shunned by locals.
KABUL - Shoppers in the Afghan capital are going online for everything from fashion to furniture to avoid bomb attacks and sexual harassment, with dozens of startups doing a brisk trade where there were few on the ground two years ago.
LONDON - A selection of private photographs taken by iconic US artist Andy Warhol on a holiday to China are to be displayed in Britain for the first time ever.
GLENCOE, Scotland - Fancy joining the ranks of Scottish nobility? An industry has grown up in Scotland allowing ordinary people to do just that - some with more legal justification than others.
China started sea trials on Friday of Asia's largest and most advanced cutter-suction dredger, which is expected to become a mighty "island-maker".
Chinese scientists have developed a substitute for artificial cream that has a similar taste but contains no harmful trans fat, a major culprit in cardiovascular diseases.
China's anti-pornography office has told online media companies to clean up vulgar content posted under the guise of a sleep aid.
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