NEW YORK - One sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed.
WELLINGTON - Beneath the carved timber roof of a traditional "marae" meeting house at Wellington High School, dozens of students watch entranced as a play performed entirely in the Maori language unfolds.
ESTES PARK, Colorado - Steve Taylor has run a small grocery for 16 years in Estes Park, a small town located at the foothill of Rocky Mountain in north Colorado.
SYDNEY - Australia reaps the benefits of having some of the most culturally and ethnically diverse communities in the world, and food has often been the path to harmony and celebration.
NEW YORK - Scrabble players, time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way, including some long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few.
BERLIN - With global temperatures rising, superstorms taking their deadly toll and a year-end deadline to firm up the Paris climate deal, leaders at this year's UN General Assembly are feeling a sense of urgency to keep up the momentum on combating climate change.
DAMASCUS - The US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria have killed thousands of civilians since they entered the course of the Syrian war four years ago, a war monitor reported on Sunday.
MALE, Maldives - Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Monday conceded defeat at the presidential polls, hours after the Elections Commission declared that opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had secured victory.
OSLO - Determined to go green, Oslo is slowly but surely ridding its city center of motorists, angering some who say the "war on cars" is putting the brakes on individual freedoms.
CANBERRA - Pilot error has been blamed for a 2017 Australian plane crash that killed five people, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found.
Derrick Sibeso Wina from Zambia completed his master's degree in the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD) at Peking University in June.
Idris Salim Dokota from Kenya turned down an offer to study in Europe and decided to learn the secrets of China's development path and, more important, what the future holds.
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