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London's water dispensers make splash

New public drinking water fountains installed across the British capital are proving highly popular, with figures suggesting thousands of liters of water have been dispensed from the first four installed earlier this year.

Bolivian woman might be world's oldest at nearly 118

SACABA, Bolivia - Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years.

'Extreme' scooter enthusiasts rev up with modified machines at festivals

KEDIRI, Indonesia - Every year, Indonesians from teens and granddads, to mechanics and students, gather in eastern Java to celebrate their love of the iconic Italian Vespa scooter.

Saudi women on fast track after end of driving ban

RIYADH - Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a park, engine roaring, tires screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back of the car.

I'm not kidding: Goats can read your face

PARIS - Goats can distinguish smiling human faces from frowning ones on photos, and actively seek out snapshots of happier individuals, a study said on Wednesday.

Hurricane's toll raised to 2,975

Number is almost twice the previous estimate of deaths in last year's tragedy

Trade row raises specter of funeral fees increase

As John Prine sings in his hit song Dear Abby: "Every side I get up on is the wrong side of the bed, if it weren't so expensive, I'd wish I were dead."

Storm brews between fishermen in 'scallop war'

British fishermen have called for protection from the Royal Navy after a long-running high-seas dispute with French mariners over access to scallops in international waters boiled over into skirmishes involving boats ramming one another, objects being thrown, and fireworks launched.

Trump accuses tech giants of bias, warns them to 'be careful'

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google and other US tech companies of rigging search results about him "so that almost all stories& news is BAD". He offered no evidence of bias, but a top adviser said the White House is "taking a look" at whether Google should face federal regulation.

UN appeals for international action on Rohingya crisis

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the international humanitarian appeal for the Rohingya crisis "remains significantly underfunded at 33 percent".

US has no plans to delay future drills

WASHINGTON - The US military has no plans to suspend any more major military exercises with the Republic of Korea, the US defense secretary said on Tuesday, amid tensions over the denuclearization issue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.