TOKYO - Paro the furry seal cries softly while an elderly woman pets it. Pepper, a humanoid, waves while leading a group of senior citizens in exercises. The upright Tree guides a disabled man taking shaky steps, saying in a gentle feminine voice, "right, left, well done!"
All plastic, glass or metal drinks containers in England are to become the subject of a new returnable deposit scheme in a bid to reduce pollution and encourage recycling.
SYDNEY - Staff at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum in Australia discovered a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy inside a coffin that was thought to be empty.
MOSCOW - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday that Moscow would respond harshly to a US decision to expel Russian diplomats, but was still open to talks with Washington, the RIA news agency reported.
SEATTLE - The US government's decision to shutter the Russian consulate in Seattle displeased many Russian immigrants on Monday, some of whom rushed to its offices in hopes of securing passports, visas and other important documents.
SOFIA, Bulgaria - President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Monday in Varna to keep up bilateral dialogue.
SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has proposed weakening the powers of his office and lowering the voting age in a package of constitutional reforms, while allowing the head of state to be re-elected.
Barring urgent action, land degradation that already has affected the lives of two-fifths of humanity will worsen, reducing crop yields and increasing social instability, nearly 100 scientists from 45 countries warned in a report released on Monday.
CLARK, The Philippines - He may never set foot in New Clark City, but taxi driver Edgard Labitag hopes the Philippines' first green, disaster-resilient, high-tech metropolis will ease the pressure on Manila - meaning fewer hours stuck in traffic and more time with his children.
HAVANA - Cuba has lagged behind many Latin American countries in access to the internet due to technological limitations, US sanctions that restrict its connectivity and lack of financial resources to develop the infrastructure.
LIMA - From atop the Andes mountains to the depths of the Amazon rainforest and frigid Patagonia, indigenous people have long eaten quinoa, camu camu and calafate, a healthy diet that has become a global phenomenon now threatened by overproduction.
HOUSTON - Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston's flooding woes went to the top of the area's to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swathes of the nation's fourth-largest city.
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