TOKYO - The plight of a lonely dolphin and dozens of penguins that have been abandoned in a derelict aquarium in Japan since the start of the year sparked protests this week, with activists and ordinary Japanese alike calling for the animals to be saved.
SAN FRANCISCO - Time and again, Chinese-American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - There was no dividing them. The folk song Arirang played and the "unification" flag was raised to celebrate the first gold medal by an inter-Korean team at a major multisport event.
SAINT-MALO, France - With a gaping hole in the ground and tangled corn stalks strewed across Yves Rolland's field, it looks as if it has been hit by a tornado. He already knows who the culprits are.
SYDNEY - An unknown number of people were believed to be on the run in a crocodile-infested swamp in northeastern Australia after a fishing boat ran aground on Sunday, authorities and reports said.
NEW YORK - Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and his Brighton Beach trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91.
CATANIA, Italy - Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants' ordeal and a bitter standoff between Rome's anti-establishment government and its European Union partners.
TEHERAN - A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early on Sunday, killing two people and injuring hundreds, officials said.
The White House is seeking to put the weight of a former US ambassador behind peace talks by appointing Zalmay Khalilzad as its special envoy on Afghanistan.
LOS ANGELES - More than 3,300 people, including some Hollywood celebrities, have signed an open letter urging US entertainment industry to end gender pay bias.
DAMASCUS - As the Syrian army will launch a widescale offensive against the last major rebel stronghold in Idlib province in the northwest, analysts say that the United States and its allies want to place hurdles.
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