A US teenager criticized on social media for wearing a traditional Chinese dress to her high school prom defended her decision and has won support from netizens in China.
NEW YORK - For 108 years, the Boy Scouts of America's flagship program has been known simply as the Boy Scouts. With girls soon entering the ranks, the group says that iconic name will change.
MUNICH, Germany - Diethild Heubel pulls a precious document from a binder: a yellowed decades-old letter, neatly handwritten by her father, a German soldier taken prisoner at the end of World War II.
PARIS - Were the early humans roaming east Asia more than half-a-million years ago clever enough to build seafaring watercraft and curious enough to cross a vast expanse of open sea?
TOKYO - The design for Pikachu, one of the main characters in the popular game Pokemon, was based on a squirrel, developers of the game at the time of its 1996 debut have told The Yomiuri Shimbun.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - At 3:25 am on April 22, a Waffle House in Nashville joined the growing list of cherished US citizen places morphed into the site of a massacre. And Chuck Cordero, a regular customer, joined the growing list of survivors left traumatized and struggling with how to move on.
NAIROBI - With their manicured nails, immaculate makeup and matching handbags and stilettos, you would be forgiven for mistaking the five women seated in the cafe of the upscale Nairobi hotel for a group of senior female executives.
GENEVA - Though more countries are taking action, still nine out of 10 people worldwide are breathing air containing high levels of pollutants, with millions of deaths every year caused by outdoor and household air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES - Before the last one had a chance to simmer down, Kanye West caused another stir, calling US slavery a "choice" in an interview on Tuesday.
TOKYO - Doctor Bunyu Ogasawara, 69, who operates the Ogasawara Clinic in Gifu, fulfills the wishes of patients who want to spend their final days in their own home. Last year, the clinic where Ogasawara is director cared for 88 patients at home, including people with terminal cancer, when they died.
LONDON - US actress Meghan Markle will join Britain's royal family when she marries Prince Harry this month, but before she can become a British citizen, it will help her to know how big the Lake District is and the age of "Big Ben".
TOKYO - Japan's iconic Mount Fuji could paralyze Tokyo with ash if it erupted, choking roads and halting water supplies, according to a government disaster planning study, a news report said on Tuesday.
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