NICOSIA, Cyprus - The center of Frankfurt erupted with fireworks at the stroke of midnight back on Jan 4, 1999 as a common European currency was launched for the first time.
HANOI - In Vietnam's "incense village", dozens are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday.
TOKYO - At a high-profile court hearing in Japan on Tuesday, his first appearance since his arrest in November rocked the business world, former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said he had been "wrongly accused and unfairly detained".
MUMBAI, India - Indian scientists have protested claims made at a local science conference that trashed the work of some of the world's greatest physicists and suggested modern breakthroughs such as in-vitro fertilization were in fact invented in ancient India.
A fourth-grade girl in Japan is set to become the youngest-ever professional player of Go, a strategy board game invented in China more than 2,500 years ago, when she makes her debut later this year.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Monday officially reopened the Oumhajir-Humera border crossing that connects the two countries.
South Africa is betting on a newly introduced national minimum wage to increase domestic spending, improve lives and tackle poverty in the African country.
China is entering the year of the pig on an apt note - its huge pork industry is sending ripples across the global commodities chain.
The US decision to not immediately withdraw from Syria is an indication of political differences in the United States, analysts said.
MOSCOW - Scattered throughout the city's outlying neighborhoods, Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas have for decades served as the center of communities.
ANKARA, Turkey - A hotly debated regulation that has divided Turkish society was put into effect on Jan 1 - a ban on free plastic bags.
Tokyo's decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling in July has seen waves of criticism both in Japan and the international community.
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