IGNALINA, Lithuania - Walking along the top of Lithuania's decommissioned nuclear reactor, which was a set for HBO's critically acclaimed Chernobyl TV series, tourist Vytas Miknaitis says he's not "afraid at all".
WASHINGTON - A growing number of business economists in the United States appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of US President Donald Trump's economic policies that they expect a recession in the US by the end of 2021.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that about 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.
NIKKO, Japan - In a mountainous area north of Tokyo, a priest blows a conch shell as Yuichiro Yamamoto bows and thanks the nature gods for this year's "good harvest": natural ice.
BANGKOK - An 8-month-old dugong nurtured by marine experts after it was found lost near a beach in southern Thailand has died of what biologists believe was a combination of shock and ingesting plastic waste, officials said on Saturday.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Luiz Pedreira walks with other hikers beneath the Atlantic Forest's thick canopy in Brazil, where an 8,000-kilometer trail stretching the full length of the country is being opened up.
LOISABA, Kenya - For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed.
WASHINGTON - Temperatures in July were the hottest ever recorded globally, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.
MOSCOW - Two Russian pilots have been hailed as heroes for safely landing an Airbus plane carrying more than 200 people in a corn field near Moscow following a bird strike.
Scientists in China and Poland have invented a laser-powered micro-robot that gets around by mimicking the adhesive locomotion of slugs and snails.
Thousands of kilometers from China, a version of the Suzhou scholars' garden, known for its seamless integration of natural landscape with pavilions and pagodas, is being built at the Huntington, a historical institution nestled in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Sixteen - year-old Madina still has nightmares about the day that two huge blasts tore through her school in Kabul, showering shards of broken window glass on her and other students.
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