ISHARGARH, India - Harpal Singh struck a match and watched his fields burn, the acrid smoke drifting toward New Delhi, where a lethal smog cocktail is once again intensifying over the world's most polluted megacity.
SHANGHAI - It is the second day of China's weeklong National Day holiday and Lai Xingcai, owner of a countryside lodge in the outskirts of Shanghai, is busy receiving guests from downtown.
A bicycle riding charity event, co-launched by 30 Shangri-La hotels, kicks of on Saturday simultaneously in three Chinese cities to raise funds for 100 children with congenital hip dislocation.
A photograph of two golden snub-nosed monkeys has won top prize at this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award, to the delight of primatologists who hope the image will raise awareness for this threatened Chinese species.
NEW DELHI - M.J. Akbar, India's junior external affairs minister, resigned on Wednesday amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of the country's most prominent news editors, becoming the most powerful man to fall in India's burgeoning #MeToo movement.
NEW YORK - After nearly 50 years on Sesame Street, the actor who has brought Big Bird to life on the iconic children's television series since its debut in 1969 is retiring.
SAN FRANCISCO - Nine scientists were recognized on Wednesday with a "Breakthrough Prize," a $3 million Silicon Valley-funded award meant to confer Oscars-style glamor and prestige on the basic sciences.
KABUL - Discarding their prosthetic legs and wheelchairs, Afghan war veterans disfigured by Taliban bombs and bullets begin pumping iron in preparation for their next battle: The Invictus Games.
WASHINGTON - The US government notified Congress on Tuesday that it plans to pursue trade agreements with the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom.
LONDON - Novelist Anna Burns from Northern Ireland won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for her work Milkman, it was announced on Tuesday evening.
BIEN HOA, Vietnam - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis toured a former Agent Orange storage site in southern Vietnam on Wednesday, revisiting one of the war's darkest chapters that lives on among a million Vietnamese with severe birth defects, cancers and disabilities linked to the toxic defoliant.
PORTUGALETE, Spain - Five years ago, a group of university students in Spain's Basque Country decided they wanted to shake up a sector - any sector - but preferably one to do with food or drink.
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