CHIAYI, Taiwan — A Taiwanese county has built an enormous glass shoe as a tribute to local women who suffered from a debilitating foot disease. Completed last month, the transparent 17-meter tall structure in Chiayi county in…
COLLEGE STATION – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk’ idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.…
Luang Prabang — A number of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites face major challenges, including the following: MACHU PICCHU, PERU This magnificent “lost city of the Incas” is cited by UNESCO as beset by logging, poor waste management…
Miss Universe also hints at entering Philippine politics Manila — The reigning Miss Universe has her eyes set on her next big dream: being a Bond girl. Asked about her plans after her reign, Wurtzbach said she…
MICROSOFT is buying the educational version of Minecraft and has plans to create a bigger and better version of the popular world-building video game that’s designed for classrooms. The Redmond, Washington, software company will partner with TeacherGaming…
Toronto — A gunman opened fire at a high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from…
UNITED NATIONS — As images and reports of starvation in besieged Syrian communities drew an international outcry and two rare aid convoys this month, an urgent question arose: Why not drop food and other needed supplies by…
TOKYO — The world’s oldest man, a Japanese, died Tuesday at the age of 112 after suffering chronic heart problems, officials said. Yasutaro Koide had said his secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area of downtown Jakarta and waged gun-battles with police yesterday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from…
Seoul, South Korea — South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun–warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, South Korean military officials said. It is the first time shots have been fired…
Osan Air Base, South Korea — A powerful US B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepens between its ally Seoul…
SEOUL, South Korea – In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that…
