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.
JACMEL, Haiti - In the Haitian port city of Jacmel, showing a film is something of a labor of love.
SUNDERLAND, United Kingdom - "It just needs to be sorted," said 23-year-old Adam Green, a frustrated Leave voter in Brexit-backing Sunderland, where patience with parliamentary delays over Britain's departure is wearing thin.
KABUL - Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 meters deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone.
ROME - Tens of thousands of citizens and politicians took to the streets in the northern Italian city of Turin on Saturday to show their support for the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link, which would connect Italy's industrially developed northern regions to the rest of Europe.
ABUJA, Nigeria - Passengers stood on the platform waiting to board a train from Nigeria's capital Abuja on Saturday only to be wowed when they were informed that the train service had been safely operating for 900 days.
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