DUBAI - From a control room in the middle of Dubai's desert, the sunrises and sunsets of Norway and the cool currents of the Atlantic are recreated for the benefit of thousands of salmon raised in water tanks despite searing heat outside.
Nearly 20 percent of Japanese households use electronic money for small purchases, a recent survey by Japan's central bank showed. While that is slightly more than a year ago, a vast majority of Japanese still prefer cash, showing the nation's "cash is king" culture is hard to change.
The chief nuclear negotiator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Tuesday that dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington is "impossible" unless the United States makes a bold decision and drops its hostile policy against the DPRK.
FRESNO, California - Ten people were shot and four of them were killed on Sunday at a party in Fresno when suspects sneaked into a backyard filled with people and fired into the crowd, police said.
ALBA, Italy - Rising global temperatures are worrying truffle hunters around the Italian town of Alba, where the most prized specimens can fetch twice the price of gold.
GAZA STRIP, Middle East - Hamouda Abu Amra, a Palestinian man in his 60s, was forced to race with death last week after he received a phone call from a self-claimed Israeli security officer who asked him to evacuate his house immediately.
WASHINGTON - The number of foreign students enrolling in US colleges and universities continued to fall last year, according to a new report, but the administration of US President Donald Trump blamed the drop on high tuition costs.
Sri Lanka has undergone a major change in its political landscape with the swearing-in on Monday of a new president who won a closely fought election in the South Asian island nation.
"Nothing of comparable scale has happened on this planet or to our species," says Simon Reeve when commenting on the dramatic change in China in recent years.
Tokyo and Washington continued to exert pressure on Seoul to keep an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that is set to expire this weekend, with the top defense officials of the two countries stressing the pact's importance during a meeting on Monday.
Temie Giwa-Tubosum's observations of mothers giving birth under hazardous circumstances, along with her own traumatic delivery experience five years go, planted an idea for reducing maternal deaths. She founded Life Bank Nigeria, a medical logistics company shortly afterward.
VENICE, Italy - Tourists and residents were allowed back into St. Mark's Square in Venice on Saturday, a day after it was closed due to exceptionally high tidal waters that swept through most of the lagoon city's already devastated center.
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