Concerns that the fashion industry in the United Kingdom is becoming increasingly dominated by throwaway "fast fashion" have again been highlighted by an investigation that shows that Britons now buy five times as much clothing per year as they did in 1980s.
PARIS - Parisians need no longer go to the beach, in time-honored August tradition, to hear the plaintive cries of sea gulls. But the birds' growing cacophony is ruffling many feathers in the French capital.
LOS ANGELES - Disney is rebooting Home Alone and Night at the Museum for its new TV streaming service, which launches in the United States in November and is intended to rival Netflix.
Japan has granted material exports to the South Korea for the first time since imposing restrictions on them in July but threatened further action.
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - The political crisis over the disputed territory of Kashmir escalated on Wednesday when Pakistan said it would downgrade its diplomatic ties with India, expel the Indian ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its regional rival.
KABUL, Afghanistan - A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighborhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 - most of them women, children and other civilians - shortly after the extremist group and the United States reported progress on negotiating an end to Afghanistan's nearly 18-year war.
TOKYO - At least 39 deaths in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the first six days of August were attributable to heat-related illnesses, as a heatwave continued to scorch wide swaths of Japan, local media reported on Wednesday.
For Sylvie Rapior, mushrooms belong to the most magical of the five kingdoms of biological life.
ISTANBUL - Turkish and US officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to establish a "joint operations center" for northern Syria aimed at creating a safe zone to manage tensions between Turkey and a US-backed Kurdish militia.
US President Donald Trump met on Wednesday with elected officials, first responders and victims of the deadly mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, as protesters blamed his rhetoric on immigration for stoking racial animosity.
MORTON, Mississippi - US immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants on Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.
Venezuela's government will skip a round of Norway-brokered talks on Thursday and Friday to protest a new set of US sanctions against the country, the Venezuelan Information Ministry said on Wednesday.
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