DUBAI - A Chinese delegation introducing the achievements of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China wrapped up its tour in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the company opened up about the year-old software change.
MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey - Earle Naval Weapons Station, where the US Navy loads some of the country's most sophisticated weapons onto warships, suffered $50 million worth of damage in Superstorm Sandy. Now the naval pier is fortifying itself with some decidedly low-tech protection: Oysters.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Nowadays, one can hardly travel around Africa without noticing the presence of Chinese nationals - regardless of whether they are tourists, businessmen, peacekeepers, staff members of medical teams, or employees of Chinese-owned enterprises.
BOSTON - A hot tip could still earn you a cool $10 million from a Boston museum desperate to recover a trove of missing masterpieces. But you'd better hurry.
MOROVIS, Puerto Rico - Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter Miriam Narvaez joined their neighbors in a line outside city hall in Morovis, a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central Puerto Rico a month after Hurricane Maria battered the US territory.
NEW YORK - Cheap, electric bicycles have made life a lot easier for New York's legions of restaurant delivery workers, but the party may be over in the New Year.
NEW HAVEN - A team of college students is getting attention from internet companies and Congress after developing a browser extension that alerts users to fake and biased news stories and helps guide them to more balanced coverage.
PHNOM PENH - This year has marked a significant milestone in Cambodia-China tourism relations as China became the biggest source of foreign tourists to Cambodia after it overtook Vietnam in the first quarter of the year, said Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon.
LA PINTADA, Panama - Cultural authorities at UNESCO have recognized the artisans of Panama for their distinctive woven hats. No, not those hats; the famed "Panama hat" comes from Ecuador.
TOKYO - At a soccer pitch in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, a forward with sculpted features kicked the ball into the net with his right foot. His teammates ran up to him, grinning.
KATHMANDU - Nepali authorities have rescued the country's last known "dancing bears", officials said on Sunday, ending the medieval tradition of abuse of the beasts for entertainment.
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