CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Twelve boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand are recovering well from the ordeal and will be discharged from hospital this week, Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn said on Saturday.
NAIROBI - Joseph Runyenje Lopeyok was born in Likii village located on the outskirts of Nanyuki town in the central Kenyan county of Laikipia at a time it was a byword for squalor, crime and alcoholism.
AccorHotels Group is implementing its "green promise" throughout China via a program of events held at its diverse range of hotels, as part of its corporate social responsibility efforts.
At an etiquette class held at The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial Street, Chinese attendees learned the intricate rules of traditional Western dining manners, including drinking from the same part of the glass, only eating caviar with certain spoons and never putting your elbows on the table.
MAE SAI, Thailand - As ecstatic relatives watched and waved from behind a glass barrier, the 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from deep within a flooded cave in Thailand made the V-for-victory sign on Wednesday from their beds in a hospital isolation ward where they are recovering from the 18-day ordeal.
UNITED NATIONS - An African woman whose people are nomads constantly searching for food and water told Security Council members on Wednesday they must consider climate change as a security risk that is fueling extremism, conflict and migration.
PARIS - They've been in use since 1900, when the Paris Metro opened for business, but soon the city's familiar rectangular tickets will become a thing of the past, replaced by a fully automated system similar to the one in London.
MINGORA, Pakistan - The Buddha of Swat, carved on a cliff in the seventh century, was dynamited by the Pakistani Taliban in 2007. Now it has been restored, a powerful symbol of tolerance in the traumatized Pakistani valley.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - The US Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles in a move it says will make the service more inclusive.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As the Middle East's first power station with Chinese investment and construction cooperation, the Hassyan Clean Coal project in the United Arab Emirates is on track, faster than expected, for the goal of starting operation by 2020.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president-elect is vowing radical change. And nowhere has it been more visible than in his decision to forgo bodyguards, and let fans mob him - leaving security experts aghast.
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