Paris on alert after Seine reaches peak

PARIS - Floodwaters were nearing their peak in Paris on Saturday, with the rain-swollen Seine River engulfing scenic quays and threatening wine cellars and museum basements, and French authorities were on standby for any major flooding risk.

Motown nights are reborn as Detroit rediscovers voice

DETROIT - Five years after Detroit declared itself bankrupt, night life in Motown is hopping again.

Trump may return to revamped agreement

LONDON - US President Donald Trump would be willing to sign the US back up to the Paris climate accord, but only if the treaty undergoes major change, he said in comments published on Sunday.

Climate change and conflict key to Africa hunger, says UN chief

ADDIS ABABA - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that conflict and climate change are the major reasons behind Africa's highest rate of poverty and hunger.

Dead Poets founder dies after ordering tombstone

ELKINS PARK - The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America suffered a fatal heart attack little more than a month after commissioning his own tombstone.

At least 37 perish in hospital inferno

SEOUL - A fire spread flames and smoke through a hospital in South Korea on Friday morning, killing at least 37 people, mainly from suffocation, and injuring more than 120 others in the deadliest blaze in the country in at least a decade.

Warm bond with Kenya praised

Wang Xiaohui, executive vice-minister of the publicity department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has spoken warmly of growing relations between China and Kenya.

Trump turns salesman-in-chief in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - US President Donald Trump was scheduled to take a turn as his country's salesman-in-chief on Friday, trying to convince a skeptical band of global heavyweights in Davos that he is good for business.

World hails monkey cloning

News of the successful cloning of two monkeys by Chinese scientists has attracted attentions around the world and triggered debate about moral and ethical standards, including in the United States.

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US, DPRK tone down the rhetoric

Tensions appear to have eased ahead of Winter Olympic Games

Cape Town bracing for 'Day Zero' deadline

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - For some residents of the drought-stricken city, the prospect of the taps running dry is almost too much to bear.