A police investigation is underway after four masked men broke into a museum in the city of Bath in Southwest England and stole valuable Chinese artifacts.
TOKYO - A female mayor at the center of a fierce debate over allowing women into the sumo ring vowed on Thursday never to back down as she lodged a formal protest.
DURHAM, North Carolina - Kristin Barnaby, a self-described arachnophobe, found a way to overcome what she dreads at a North Carolina burger joint.
LYME, New Hampshire - Stripy and Jake are bear cubs fed by bottle, who play around happily. Other bear orphans perch in the trees when Ben Kilham ventures into their enclosure.
There is a high possibility that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision not to invite either UK or international leaders to their wedding is to avoid the presence of US President Donald Trump, a British royal etiquette expert said at a news conference to foreign press in London on Tuesday.
AOMORI, Japan - A popular Akita dog known for being "ugly but cute" has been receiving condolence letters from all over the country.
CEUTA, Spain - It's a form of hard labor that has provoked an outcry - Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own body weight.
NEW YORK - A sculptor brings dark times, science fiction and a desire to provoke to New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art for this year's rooftop installation overlooking the Manhattan skyline.
SINGAPORE - Gamers wearing headsets and wielding rifles adorned with flashing lights battle a horde of zombies, letting out the occasional terrified shriek.
After 12 years in power, Cuban President Raul Castro will hand over a different Cuba to his successor, who was to be elected by a legislative session that began on Wednesday.
Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, president George H.W. Bush, died on Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92.
MENLO PARK, California - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would continue requiring people to accept targeted ads as a condition of using its service, a stance that may help keep its business model largely intact despite a new European Union privacy law.
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