HAVANA - "Going to China to become a pilot fulfilled a yearning, so now I dream of returning there," said Henry Perez, a retired colonel of Cuba's air force, when he recalled his training experience in China.
WARSAW, Poland - A rare collection of historic grand pianos emits the authentic but forgotten sounds that transport the audience at a celebrated new music competition in Poland back to the times of Frederic Chopin.
PARIS - Future space tourists may be able to toast the view from orbit with fine champagne, after designers came up with a high-tech bottle made for knocking back bubbly in zero gravity.
Chinese fine paintings, archaic bronzes, sculptures and ceramics were scheduled to go under the hammer at Christie's and Sotheby's Asia week auctions in New York this week.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appealed for stronger leadership and ambition from the international community to reverse the impact of climate change, "a direct existential threat" at what he said was "a defining moment".
WASHINGTON - The US government's decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, stepping up pressure on the Palestinians, revealed Washington's obvious siding with Israel, a stance that could further undermine the already derailed Middle East peace process, said US experts on Monday.
The European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has given one of his most positive assessments yet of the British government's attempts to extricate itself from the union, known as Brexit, saying a deal could be achieved within six to eight weeks if both sides are "realistic".
With a long, successful partnership on clean energy, China and California will highlight their leadership role in fighting climate change this week.
KHAN SHAYKHUN, Syria - Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century's "worst humanitarian catastrophe".
NEW YORK - The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood's top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the television industry's most powerful executives.
WASHINGTON - The US government was scheduled to announce on Monday that it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Yili Group, the leading Chinese dairy company based in the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot, kickstarted its latest poverty-relief campaign in Meigu county, Sichuan province, recently, by donating dairy products to local schools.
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