China will continue to facilitate trade and investment in the Northeast Asia region, officials said on Friday.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Tanzania is set to launch the world's largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of women giving birth and children struck by malaria, in a country larger than Nigeria.
JAKARTA - The sound of Sutino Hadi's sputtering mobile library fills children with delight as they wait to dive into stacks of short stories and picture books.
SYDNEY - An Indian seaman's tale of being shipwrecked on a remote northern Australian island could shed light on the 230-year-old disappearance of a renowned French explorer, one of maritime history's greatest mysteries, an anthropologist said Thursday.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia - Arm outstretched, Abdul Rahman sweeps his mobile phone across the vista of Mecca, the Great Mosque dazzling in the sun, so his son in Tanzania can experience the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites.
SYDNEY - As winter draws to a close in Australia, it brings with it the sunny skies and pristine weather conditions that see tourists from around the world flock to the country to take advantage of the shifted seasons in the southern hemisphere.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Supermarkets and other retail outlets in Kenya are among the biggest beneficiaries of a ban on plastic bags, which took effect on Monday.
WASHINGTON - First, Bao Bao and Bei Bei the pandas made a splash at the National Zoo in Washington. Then, April the Giraffe wowed fans at a game park in New York.
BOSTON, Massachusetts - A good roasting hasn't caused a meltdown at Boston's new wax museum.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - For more than 30 years Oscar Cadiach risked life and limb to conquer some of the world's most unforgiving terrain, driven by a desire to join the ranks of mountain climbing's elite.
ERNSTBRUNN, Austria - "When they lick your face, keep your mouth closed. They have long tongues," Kurt Kotrschal tells the group before they enter the wolf enclosure, soliciting a few nervous chuckles.
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - A movie theater in the southeastern US state of Tennessee has halted its annual screening of Gone with the Wind after receiving complaints over the film's racial content, said media reports.
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