ILE LONGUE, France - Drinking a bowl of seawater followed by a glass of champagne, four French officers stood out during the traditional "baptism" to mark their inaugural submarine patrol: the first women to join a crew in the country's nuclear-powered fleet.
Editor's note: The State Council Information Office on Wednesday issued a white paper on Ecological Progress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Following is the full text:
Ma Zhaoxu, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said addressing unbalanced and inadequate development is crucial to achieving the world's goals on sustainability.
RAMECHHAP, Nepal - As a teenager, Meera Nepali was terrified as she went into labor with her first child at home in a remote village, kilometers from a hospital with nobody but her mother-in-law to help.
WASHINGTON - Danish and British scientists have found the oldest direct evidence of breadmaking, at least 4,000 years before the advent of agriculture.
CHERTSEY, England - An 800-year-old tradition of counting the swans owned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth started on Monday, an annual ceremony of "swan upping" that in modern times has become a means of wildlife conservation.
Artificial intelligence could help create up to more than 7 million jobs in Britain over the next 20 years and help boost the economy, a report by leading accountancy firm PwC has revealed.
DARAA, Syria - Hundreds of Syrian rebels and their relatives left the southern city of Daraa on Sunday under a deal to bring the city back under government control.
British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce has designed a propulsion system for a flying taxi and is seeking partners to help develop a project it hopes could take to the skies as soon as early next decade.
ABUJA - Hundreds of Nigerian troops went missing following an ambush by suspected Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, local media and residents said on Sunday.
OSLO - More than 1 billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study showed on Monday.
MABI, Japan - When Isao Akutagawa moved to the sleepy riverside town of Mabi in western Japan 45 years ago, it seemed like the perfect suburb to raise his children.
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