NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday increased its three-year lending program with Argentina by $7 billion to $57 billion, on the condition that the central bank halted full-scale interventions to support the ailing peso.
A new bus operated by one of the United Kingdom's largest public transportation companies has hit the streets in Southampton with the goal of driving down air pollution. The Go-Ahead Group says its Bluestar7 bus is the first in the UK to be fitted with a roof-mounted air filtration system that will suck up dirty air as it moves around the city before cleaning it and sending it back out. If the bus unveiled on Thursday is a success in Southampton, the company will roll the idea out nationwide.
YOSHIKAWA, Japan - It's drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in this nation long known for its zealous commitment to "three R's" education.
PARIS - After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the world's largest bird.
MUTALE, South Africa - From before dawn, 54-year-old grandmother Annah Muvhali weaves between baobab trees that loom over her rural South African home, collecting fruit that enthusiasts worldwide hail as a "superfood".
NEW YORK - One sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed.
WELLINGTON - Beneath the carved timber roof of a traditional "marae" meeting house at Wellington High School, dozens of students watch entranced as a play performed entirely in the Maori language unfolds.
ESTES PARK, Colorado - Steve Taylor has run a small grocery for 16 years in Estes Park, a small town located at the foothill of Rocky Mountain in north Colorado.
SYDNEY - Australia reaps the benefits of having some of the most culturally and ethnically diverse communities in the world, and food has often been the path to harmony and celebration.
NEW YORK - Scrabble players, time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way, including some long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few.
BERLIN - With global temperatures rising, superstorms taking their deadly toll and a year-end deadline to firm up the Paris climate deal, leaders at this year's UN General Assembly are feeling a sense of urgency to keep up the momentum on combating climate change.
DAMASCUS - The US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria have killed thousands of civilians since they entered the course of the Syrian war four years ago, a war monitor reported on Sunday.
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