LONDON - The United Kingdom will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2040 as part of a plan to get them off the roads altogether 10 years later, environment minister Michael Gove said on Wednesday.
PARIS - High-kicking dancers are enthralling full houses again at the Moulin Rouge and art lovers are swarming the Louvre as Paris enjoys a tourism revival after plummeting numbers brought on by terror attacks.
OSLO, Norway - Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.
LONDON - Sperm counts in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand have dropped by more than 50 percent in less than 40 years, researchers said on Tuesday.
LONDON - Beatles music with a Chinese flavor will ring out at a concert in Liverpool on Sunday.
The guard then responded by shooting dead the Jordanian worker, while the apartment owner who was there at the time was wounded and later died from his injuries, according to the ministry and a security source..
KUWAIT CITY - The European Union's foreign affairs chief and Turkey's president have been visiting the Gulf countries as part of the most recent international effort to heal the diplomatic rift between Qatar and a group of four nations led by Saudi Arabia.
WASHINGTON - The White House has indicated that President Donald Trump would sign a sweeping Russia sanctions measure that requires him to get Congress' permission before lifting or easing the economic penalties against Moscow.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Nine people are dead and the death toll could rise after emergency crews pulled dozens of people from a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer heat, victims of what officials said was an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ratings sinking over a suspected cronyism scandal, on Monday said he had never instructed officials to give preferential treatment to a longtime friend, adding that the latter had never sought favors.
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