The California State Senate on Thursday passed a bill to officially recognize Lunar New Year and encourage awareness of the day's cultural significance statewide. Now it's on to the Assembly.
Back in March, inside West London's Portobello Road antique market on a typical Saturday morning, a visitor picks up a white 10-centimeter-tall representation of a man playing a flute. The piece features intricately carved details, such as the man's gown and his facial expressions. Its edges are yellowing, a sign of aging.
MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania - The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened.
Though the dust raised by the joint Western airstrikes on Syria is settling, its shockwaves continue to ripple through Europe.
A police investigation is underway after four masked men broke into a museum in the city of Bath in Southwest England and stole valuable Chinese artifacts.
TOKYO - A female mayor at the center of a fierce debate over allowing women into the sumo ring vowed on Thursday never to back down as she lodged a formal protest.
DURHAM, North Carolina - Kristin Barnaby, a self-described arachnophobe, found a way to overcome what she dreads at a North Carolina burger joint.
LYME, New Hampshire - Stripy and Jake are bear cubs fed by bottle, who play around happily. Other bear orphans perch in the trees when Ben Kilham ventures into their enclosure.
There is a high possibility that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision not to invite either UK or international leaders to their wedding is to avoid the presence of US President Donald Trump, a British royal etiquette expert said at a news conference to foreign press in London on Tuesday.
AOMORI, Japan - A popular Akita dog known for being "ugly but cute" has been receiving condolence letters from all over the country.
CEUTA, Spain - It's a form of hard labor that has provoked an outcry - Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own body weight.
NEW YORK - A sculptor brings dark times, science fiction and a desire to provoke to New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art for this year's rooftop installation overlooking the Manhattan skyline.
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