PHOENIX, Arizona - The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for "agua".
Dong Jiaming, a 22-year-old man who majored in hotel management, said he is satisfied with his first job after graduation, as a front desk receptionist at a hotel in Beijing.
Responding to the voice command "I'm going to sleep", the curtain silently closes and all the lights are extinguished automatically. A few minutes after a guest asks a high-tech device in his room "I'd like three bottles of water" a waiter knocks on his door.
BERLIN - Scientists say they are several steps closer to perfecting a method that could prevent the extinction of northern white rhinos, with only two known still to be alive.
KAMEOKA, Japan - Yuki Tatsumi was waiting tables at an izakaya pub in Japan's Kyoto when something on the table caught his eye - a chopstick wrapper folded and fiddled into an abstract shape.
NEW YORK - The United States celebrated its 242nd anniversary of independence on Wednesday, with concerts, parades and a voracious display of hot dog-eating prowess in New York, as many cities and towns held fireworks displays after sundown.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Pop singer Helgi Bjornsson, who is well-known in his native Iceland for a 1980s hit titled I Do Like the Rain, recently appeared on national television while a deadpan reporter challenged him to defend the song's premise.
BANYULS-SUR-MER, France - Wine lovers have risen up in revolt after a Japanese couple who make "outstanding" wine were threatened with deportation.
BOSTON - In these complex times, a simple question about the quintessential US holiday of fireworks, cookouts and parades isn't always so simple.
BELGRADE - When the mutual visa-free regime between Serbia and China came into effect early last year - making Serbia the first European country to lift visa requirement for Chinese nationals traveling to the country - other countries in the Balkan region followed suit.
NAIROBI - Kenya's jobless graduates are turning to the farming sector as demand for produce rises amid a fast-growing population.
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