SYDNEY - A row is raging over Australia's warming-damaged Great Barrier Reef, with firms worried that scientists' apocalyptic warnings are scaring visitors out of the water.
PARIS - It may have been a long time coming, but eco-fashion is no longer a hippie pipe dream.
NEW DELHI - Hit hard by steep hike in fuel prices, urban residents in India are trying all cost-effective measures to tackle commuting. The most popular among them has been to shun the use of private cars and resort to public transport or carpooling.
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Volunteers looking for poachers that target migrating birds are on patrol in several Mediterranean countries, including Malta, Lebanon and Cyprus.
ZEERIJP, Netherlands - The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean - but when they started making their own earthquakes, it proved a step too far.
NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to start trade talks in an arrangement that, for now, protects Japanese automakers from further tariffs, seen as a major threat to the export-dependent economy.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that his country will remain in the Iran nuclear deal, on condition that the pact serves Iran's interests.
SYDNEY - Although the weeklong bilateral military training mission, Exercise Pandaroo 2018, has almost come to the end, the bonds made between participating soldiers from China and Australia will last a lifetime.
NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday increased its three-year lending program with Argentina by $7 billion to $57 billion, on the condition that the central bank halted full-scale interventions to support the ailing peso.
A new bus operated by one of the United Kingdom's largest public transportation companies has hit the streets in Southampton with the goal of driving down air pollution. The Go-Ahead Group says its Bluestar7 bus is the first in the UK to be fitted with a roof-mounted air filtration system that will suck up dirty air as it moves around the city before cleaning it and sending it back out. If the bus unveiled on Thursday is a success in Southampton, the company will roll the idea out nationwide.
YOSHIKAWA, Japan - It's drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in this nation long known for its zealous commitment to "three R's" education.
PARIS - After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the world's largest bird.
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