BANGKOK - Music pounds from the speakers and LED lights ripple across the customized cabs at a "truck party" hosted by proud Thai drivers showing off their lorries with swag.
KATHMANDU - When Sophia, the world's first robot citizen, greeted the audience at a conference in Kathmandu with "Namaste Nepal", the hall burst into applause.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, also known as the FCO, has appointed its first black female high commissioner, as it looks to transform the image of its diplomatic service as a white, male-dominated organization.
LONDON - Three years ago a schoolgirl in rural Afghanistan took out a small loan and bought two beehives. In her first year she harvested 16 kilograms of honey, enough to repay the loan and leave her with a small profit.
TOKYO - Across Japan's capital, pink and white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say: an invasive foreign beetle.
BUENOS AIRES - Thousands of visitors have posed on his trompe-l'oeil facades, he made the pointed tip of the Buenos Aires Obelisk disappear and he even tricked visitors into thinking they were seeing others underwater in a giant pool.
DALUAKANI, India - Since he was a boy, Soumyaranjan Biswal has kept a night vigil at the beach near his coastal Indian village where tens of thousands of tiny olive ridley turtles gather to lay their eggs.
JUNEAU, Alaska - The recent discovery of the USS Juneau in the depths of the South Pacific has provided some closure to people with connections to the ship, which was blown apart during World War II.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing his biggest political crisis since taking office more than five years ago, as suspicions swirl about a land sale to a school operator with ties to his wife.
GREAT MILLS, Maryland - In the latest school shooting in the United States, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute.
LONDON - A Cambridge University academic who harvested data on millions of Facebook users said he has been made a scapegoat by the social network and a UK-based political consultancy that is accused of trying to sway public opinion for US President Donald Trump.
Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the capital.
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