TOKYO - At a soccer pitch in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, a forward with sculpted features kicked the ball into the net with his right foot. His teammates ran up to him, grinning.
KATHMANDU - Nepali authorities have rescued the country's last known "dancing bears", officials said on Sunday, ending the medieval tradition of abuse of the beasts for entertainment.
KABUL - Despite learning the Chinese language being difficult for many elsewhere in the world, learning the language has become more common among Afghan youths recently.
HANOI/MANILA - Authorities in southern Vietnam started to move 1 million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday, as a typhoon approached after battering the Philippines with floods and landslides that killed more than 240 people.
KABUL - A suicide bomber killed six civilians in an attack near an Afghan intelligence agency compound in Kabul on Monday in the latest assault claimed by the Islamic State group in the capital.
MEXICO CITY - Guatemala will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, becoming the first country to follow US President Donald Trump's controversial stance to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, according to an announcement by the Central American country's President Jimmy Morales on Sunday.
ST. LOUIS, Missouri - An effort to remove guns from the streets of St. Louis is being called a success, so much so that there wasn't enough money to buy up all of the offered weapons.
LIMA - Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has pardoned former leader Alberto Fujimori, clearing him of convictions for human rights crimes and graft before completion of a 25-year prison sentence.
MEXICO CITY - From tequila to avocados, the state of Jalisco in central Mexico is seeing its exports to China increase, largely thanks to the Asian nation's expanding middle class.
Harvard University, which is facing claims of racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in its admissions process, has announced that its early acceptance rate for Asian-Americans for the Class of 2022 has hit 24.2 percent, up from 21.7 percent a year earlier.
MARENNES, France - A French seafood farmer is proposing lemon-flavored oysters this holiday season, a delicacy he perfected after four years of trial-and-error experiments in his garage.
SINGAPORE - Checks for eye diseases may become faster and cheaper from as early as next year thanks to an artificial intelligence screening system that is being developed.
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