NEW YORK - After nearly 50 years on Sesame Street, the actor who has brought Big Bird to life on the iconic children's television series since its debut in 1969 is retiring.
SAN FRANCISCO - Nine scientists were recognized on Wednesday with a "Breakthrough Prize," a $3 million Silicon Valley-funded award meant to confer Oscars-style glamor and prestige on the basic sciences.
KABUL - Discarding their prosthetic legs and wheelchairs, Afghan war veterans disfigured by Taliban bombs and bullets begin pumping iron in preparation for their next battle: The Invictus Games.
WASHINGTON - The US government notified Congress on Tuesday that it plans to pursue trade agreements with the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom.
LONDON - Novelist Anna Burns from Northern Ireland won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for her work Milkman, it was announced on Tuesday evening.
BIEN HOA, Vietnam - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis toured a former Agent Orange storage site in southern Vietnam on Wednesday, revisiting one of the war's darkest chapters that lives on among a million Vietnamese with severe birth defects, cancers and disabilities linked to the toxic defoliant.
PORTUGALETE, Spain - Five years ago, a group of university students in Spain's Basque Country decided they wanted to shake up a sector - any sector - but preferably one to do with food or drink.
VIENNA - From Hollywood to hip hop, it's the weapon that is wielded by cops and outlaws alike. The Glock pistol has achieved global cult status but the business is still shrouded in mystery in its native Austria.
SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s and later went on to become an investor, philanthropist and sports team owner, died on Monday after his latest battle with cancer at age 65.
Chinese artifacts, including a 2,000-year-old crossbow, a snake-shaped oil lamp from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), and a Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-256 BC) bronze bell, are set to go under the hammer at an auction in the United Kingdom city of Cambridge.
Prince William hailed the work of China's government in combating the illicit sale of ivory during a major conference in London, while warning that the trade is now shifting to other nations.
ANKARA/WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday ordered an internal probe into the unexplained disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a joint Turkish-Saudi team was set to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where he was last seen on Oct 2.
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