LOS ANGELES - Fifty years after raising clenched fists in protest during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the shock waves unleashed by John Carlos and Tommie Smith's salute of defiance are still rippling around the sporting world.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is facing a fast-growing national security threat that could prove one of its trickiest challenges yet: the US' obesity crisis.
TOKYO - From tiny one-person cubicles in underground stations to camping tents under towering skyscrapers and even karaoke clubs: in workaholic Japan, salarymen are never short of a place to work.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Given a choice between giving birth on land or sea ice, Pacific walrus mothers most often choose ice.
A growing trend toward employing artificial intelligence technology in the hospitality industry is helping the sector remain innovative, according to Zhang Hongying, general manager of Kuntai Hotel Beijing Wangjing.
The internationally-famous restaurant Mirazur in the French Riviera run by Italian-Argentinean chef Mauro Colagreco - who has strong professional and personal links to Beijing - moved up one place from fourth to third in the World's 50 Best Restaurant 2018 rankings, released by the British magazine Restaurant.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday warned countries of the perils of a trade or a currency war, saying they could be detrimental to global growth and hurt "innocent bystanders".
PANAMA CITY - Hurricane Michael, the third-most powerful ever to strike the US mainland, weakened to a tropical storm early on Thursday but only after wreaking a day of havoc along Florida's Gulf Coast as it flooded homes and streets and toppled trees and power lines in the beachfront areas where it roared ashore as a Category 4 hurricane.
PARIS - Parents exasperated by their children constantly ignoring pleas to stop picking their noses may have finally found an argument to break the habit: it might give you pneumonia.
Project uses loans, expertise under Belt and Road Initiative
PODGORICA - Montenegro needs to build a strategic highway to further open up and modernize the country, said Veselin Vukotic, a former minister and currently rector of Montenegro's youngest private university, in a recent interview.
PODGORICA - Montenegro's public finances are sustainable thanks to the government's fiscal changes, said an official, adding that the country will continue to build its first highway.
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