LA PAZ, Bolivia - Almost a year after conservationists sent out a plea to help save a species of Bolivian aquatic frog by finding a mate for the last remaining member, Romeo, his very own Juliet has been tracked down deep inside a cloud forest.
KATHMANDU - For the first time in the Himalayan country's history, amputees from Nepal participated in a national soccer tournament.
LOS ANGELES - Kathleen Whitehead vowed to keep her 14-year-old daughter home on Tuesday, after the teen reported not learning much the day earlier at a Los Angeles high school staffed by a skeleton crew of substitutes as tens of thousands of teachers walked off the job in the nation's second-largest school district.
TAMPA, Florida - Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before - about six times more per year now than 40 years ago - leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned on Monday.
RAMALLAH, Middle East - It's only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli's collection, but the words carry a powerful message: "Not your habibti", or darling.
A December decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from Syria once again put the war-ravaged country in the spotlight.
VIENTIANE, Laos - Lao government is cooperating with a Chinese firm on a clean agriculture development project aimed to expand trade opportunities between the two countries, local daily Vientiane Times reported on Tuesday.
SEOUL - Seoul stopped calling Pyongyang an "enemy" in its biennial defense document published on Tuesday, an apparent effort to continue reconciliation with its neighbor.
KABUL - The Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a carbomb attack near a heavily fortified foreign compound in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, that killed at least four people a day earlier.
If British Prime Minister Theresa May thought a new year might bring some new luck, so far, she has been sorely disappointed.
A strike by more than 30,000 teachers in Los Angeles, the second-largest school district in the United States with 640,000 students, is all but inevitable starting on Monday after the two sides did not renew negotiations over the weekend. It will be the first teachers' strike in the city in 30 years.
TIARET - Dating back centuries, Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era but a dearth of research has left the Jeddars shrouded in mystery.
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