SYDNEY - Images of an Australian cockatoo parrot in a 13th century Italian manuscript suggest an extensive trade route reaching from the waters around Australia's north to Europe, centuries earlier than previously thought.
MAE SAI, Thailand - Desperate parents led a prayer ceremony outside a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children have been trapped for days as Navy rescue divers packing food rations resumed their search on Tuesday.
NEW YORK - They are part of New York's skyline and millions of people unknowingly depend on them: Behold, the venerable rooftop water tank, made of plain old wood.
THE HAGUE - Poultry farmers, the Dutch food safety board and the government all failed in their duties during a tainted egg scandal which spread to 45 countries causing millions in damage, a scathing report found on Monday.
NAY PYI TAW - "When I was pregnant, I had to walk a long way to fetch water. Now I'm so happy to see a well being dug here," said Thei Ma, mother of two, holding her 3-month-old baby girl in her arms.
British shoppers can take a trip down memory lane on their local high street, thanks to supermarket giant Morrisons reverting to old-fashioned brown paper bags for loose fresh fruit and vegetables.
KABUL - Hindi music pumps from the speakers as dozens of Afghan men grunt and sweat their way through a workout beneath the watchful eye of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose musclebound image hangs from the wall.
NEW YORK - Learning wuqinxi, which imitates the moves of bears, tigers, monkeys, deer and birds to promote health, listening to lectures on the "harmony of the universe" from the world's top-grade qigong masters, and sharing experiences and lessons of your daily exercise and training.
SAN FRANCISCO - At the city's Tawla restaurant, Muna Anaee powdered her hands with flour and gently broke off a piece of golden dough to prepare a type of bread eaten in Iraq, the country she fled with her family.
HAVANA - There is unlikely to be a Cuban who has not used a Chinese-made bus, car, or motorcycle in the last decade, which indicates the importance of Chinese transportation technologies to the Caribbean nation.
SANAA - Thousands of families arrived on Saturday in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, after fleeing military confrontations between pro-government forces and armed rebels in Yemen's Hodeidah port city.
NEW YORK - A US clothing company is taking a sartorial swipe at first lady Melania Trump, selling jackets saying "I really care, don't you?" in response to the "I really don't care" jacket she wore to visit migrant children separated from their parents.
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