Dead Poets founder dies after ordering tombstone

ELKINS PARK - The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America suffered a fatal heart attack little more than a month after commissioning his own tombstone.

At least 37 perish in hospital inferno

SEOUL - A fire spread flames and smoke through a hospital in South Korea on Friday morning, killing at least 37 people, mainly from suffocation, and injuring more than 120 others in the deadliest blaze in the country in at least a decade.

Warm bond with Kenya praised

Wang Xiaohui, executive vice-minister of the publicity department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has spoken warmly of growing relations between China and Kenya.

Trump turns salesman-in-chief in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - US President Donald Trump was scheduled to take a turn as his country's salesman-in-chief on Friday, trying to convince a skeptical band of global heavyweights in Davos that he is good for business.

World hails monkey cloning

News of the successful cloning of two monkeys by Chinese scientists has attracted attentions around the world and triggered debate about moral and ethical standards, including in the United States.

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US, DPRK tone down the rhetoric

Tensions appear to have eased ahead of Winter Olympic Games

Cape Town bracing for 'Day Zero' deadline

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - For some residents of the drought-stricken city, the prospect of the taps running dry is almost too much to bear.

Humans left Africa earlier than thought

MIAMI - The oldest remains of a modern human outside Africa have been dug up in Israel, offering evidence of what genetic studies have already suggested - that humans migrated out of Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Migrant workers' housing plan

SURAT, India - A plan to move migrant workers off the streets and into apartments in Bhuj could be a blueprint for other Indian cities struggling to accommodate tens of thousands who arrive daily in search of jobs.

Ireland makes direct appeal

Ireland expects to welcome 100,000 Chinese tourists per year after the first direct air link between the country and China gets off the ground this June.

Brexit deal in place 'by end of March'

Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Wednesday that the United Kingdom should have a transitional deal with the European Union in place "before the end of March".