The United Kingdom-based international charity The Big Issue is equipping some of its street-corner vendors with contactless card readers in response to changing trends that mean many people now leave their wallets at home and few carry "spare change".
The Chinese consulate in Sapporo is working closely with Japanese authorities after 11 Chinese citizens were arrested in Hokkaido, and will make sure the detainees get a fair and impartial investigation, the head of the consulate said on Tuesday.
TEHERAN - Iran will continue to develop and test missiles in line with its deterrence policy despite adversarial positions taken on the issue by the United States, a spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Sunday.
AMMAN - Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has biblical heritage.
PARIANGAN, Indonesia - Waves of muddy water slosh over the jockey as he hangs on to the tails of a pair of bulls galloping across the rice paddy.
HELSINKI - What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple: A vast, state-of-the-art library, a new "living room for the nation".
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The supply chain of food and other goods delivered to the Port of Anchorage from the Lower 48 has not been disrupted by the powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage to roads in the Anchorage area.
The conflict between the French government and protesters is likely to come to an impasse, as the causes for it have been there for some time, experts say.
With Britain's March 2019 Brexit date looming, manufacturers in the United Kingdom are taking action, stockpiling goods as they prepare to face the prospect of queues at Britain's ports.
DOHA - Qatar said on Monday that it was quitting OPEC from January next year, but would attend the oil exporter group's meeting this week, saying the decision meant Doha could focus on cementing its position as the world's top liquefied natural gas exporter.
Seoul anticipates the first visit by a top leader from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in over six decades to happen this month to consolidate the continuous diplomatic reconciliation efforts witnessed this year on the Korean Peninsula.
TOKYO - One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the arrest of Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn is over how he allegedly could have underreported his income by millions of dollars for years and why the company is going after the suspected wrongdoing now.
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