TOKYO - A Japanese minister apologized on Tuesday over the escape of a "model" inmate who fled an open prison more than a week ago, as the number of police hunting him passed 6,000.
PARIS - A child's health can be compromised not only by a mother who smokes or drinks during pregnancy, but by the obesity and poor diet of both parents well before the act of procreation, researchers said on Tuesday.
WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut - Between raising two daughters and working as a dishwasher at a supermarket, Lhakpa Sherpa just doesn't have time for training to climb Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest. Even so, she has done it a record eight times and hopes to outdo herself yet again.
TAMPA, Florida - Scientists in the US and Britain have accidentally engineered an enzyme which can digest some of the most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems.
SEOUL - A discotheque hidden among the back alleys of eastern Seoul is packed with hundreds of grey-haired couples on a Monday afternoon, dancing to local hits from the 1960s in a basketball court-sized hall.
MANILA - Although her husband nearly killed her, Krista Dador cannot get a divorce as the Philippines is one of only two states - along with the Vatican - without a divorce law.
TIRANA, Albania - With feathers on its head that make it look like it is wearing a wig, it does not go unnoticed - the Dalmatian pelican is back with a flourish in the Divjaka Lagoon in western Albania.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Somad rarely ventures beyond his impoverished Jakarta neighborhood, but the 14-year-old is now gearing for a trip to Russia next month as a player in the 2018 Street Child World Cup.
HANOI - For Will Frith, born in the United States to a US father and Vietnamese mother, a visit to Vietnam in 2004 ignited a passion for coffee that would change his life.
GAZA - Palestinian journalists have recently realized that they have become a target of Israeli soldiers while they were covering the mass protests on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
DUBLIN - Ireland's O'Connell Tower reopened to the public on Saturday after it closed 47 years ago following a bomb attack whose perpetrator has still not been officially identified.
SOWETO, South Africa - South Africa laid to rest anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday, after 40,000 people from across the political spectrum mourned her at a funeral ceremony in her township of Soweto.
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