TOKYO - Rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud on Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.
NEW DELHI - The empowerment of women is being witnessed in India through the blogging platform "wemedia", thanks to Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.
An exhibition featuring photographs of 12 "comfort women" survivors from World War II has opened in the California State Building.
UNITED NATIONS - Iran's foreign minister has sharply criticized President Donald Trump for "abusing" the US presidency of the Security Council this month by holding a meeting on Iran's international activities during the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in late September.
The United Kingdom will seek to intensify diplomatic pressure on the Kremlin after naming two Russian military intelligence officers it said were ordered to carry out the Novichok poisoning attack in Salisbury.
BIRDSVILLE, Australia - One of the country's best-known pubs, located in the remote outback thousands of miles from major cities, is on the market for the first time in decades and attracting local and international interest.
LONDON - An octogenarian flying trapeze artist, the owner of the world's fastest jet-propelled go-cart and a dog named Feather with a flair for jumping are among the record-breaking stars to win a place in the latest edition of Guinness World Records.
SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon on Tuesday briefly joined Apple to become the second $1 trillion publicly listed US company after its stock price more than doubled in a year as it grew rapidly in retail and cloud computing.
Experts in the United Kingdom have said four out of five adults have hearts that are more damaged than they should be for their age, putting them at greater risk of early death.
CHICAGO - A pair of ruby slippers worth millions that were featured in the movie The Wizard of Oz and stolen from a Judy Garland museum 13 years ago have been recovered in Minneapolis, the FBI said on Tuesday.
SOUTHAMPTON, England - All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic.
From solar powered street lights, mobile phones, headphones, digital gadgets to clothes, bedding and cosmetics, more and more Chinese goods can be spotted in African households as the continent has opened up a major market for Chinese e-commerce merchants.
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