Tokyo: Japan has waited more than two centuries for an emperor to abdicate, but the main ceremony to perform the ritual will take...
Tokyo: Japan has waited more than two centuries for an emperor to abdicate, but the main ceremony to perform the ritual will take...
TOKYO: Emperor Akihito, 85, will step down on Tuesday, almost three years after he first publicly hinted he wanted to retire and hand...
LONDON: From storms named after women that cause more damage because people prepare for them less to men who refuse to recycle because...
NAIROBI: Rescuers in northern Mozambique struggled on Monday to reach people stranded by flooding after a second cyclone in just over a month...
Zavada, Slovakia: The bald head of Slovak general Milan Rastislav Stefanik is pierced before hairs are inserted into his skull. Stefanik's face remains...
Hue, Vietnam: Rainbow-coloured hot air balloons ferried giddy visitors over Vietnam's ancient city of Hue on Sunday for a festival organisers hope will...
SANTIAGO: A 15,600-year old footprint discovered in southern Chile is believed to be the Oldest ever found in the Americas, according to researchers....
LOS ANGELES: A man who made appearances as Darth Vader at film premieres and fan conventions will sell a costume created in 1979...
Altamira, Brazil: As the diesel generator rumbles to life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, teenagers scramble to charge their phones and...
Altamira, Brazil: Thousands of indigenous languages have disappeared in Brazil since it was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century. But more than...
Altamira, Brazil: A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled by...
Johannesburg: Less than 40 years ago, Mpho Mojapelo and his wife Cheryl might have gone to jail. "We would be hiding our relationship,...
Dunbar, United Kingdom: Expertly balancing one rock on top of another at the European Stone Stacking Championships, competitors combine skill and artistic creativity...
New York: Joanna Hausmann is a bubbly Latina cocktail of cultures, languages and opinion as she rants a mile a minute about how...
Kiev: Ukrainians go to polls Sunday, with Volodymyr Zelensky, a 41-year-old comedian turned politician, set to win the leadership of a conflict-riven country...
JOHANNESBURG: Photographs of South African children in after-school tutoring groups and a mother and son carrying seedlings are among 30-odd images lining the...
York York, United Kingdom: A bolt of lightning pierced its tower and flames licked across its thick oak roof. Thirty-five years ago it...
BRIDGEPORT, Washington: Rodney Cawston's father and grandfather passed down stories of such abundant salmon fishing in the U.S. Northwest's Columbia River that the...
