ATHENS - Behind the concrete walls and barbed wire of Greece's largest maximum security prison complex at Korydallos, a suburb of Piraeus port near the capital Athens, a friendly soccer game was hailed by inmates and their rivals from the "outside world" as a step on the road to rehabilitation.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A gray-haired woman in her early 60s daintily lifts small trays topped with different varieties of marijuana to her nose, sniffing each of them carefully.
BANGKOK - Teachers in Thailand's capital are learning Mandarin to help the country cope with an increase in Chinese tourists.
TOKYO - Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.
BHUBANESWAR - On a hot, humid afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in eastern India, construction worker Sabitri Mahanand frets about increasingly "dangerous" summers.
WASHINGTON - His life may have inspired the landmark novel Uncle Tom's Cabin but 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, Josiah Henson remains a controversial figure, and efforts to turn his onetime home outside Washington into a museum are slow at best.
TOKYO - By day, Sumiko Iwamuro runs a Chinese restaurant, where she has worked for six decades making "gyoza" dumplings, while by night, she spins records at Tokyo clubs under the moniker DJ Sumirock.
SEOUL - Lawmakers of the biggest Minjoo Party of the Republic of Korea on Tuesday criticized the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system in their territory, calling for a resolution through dialogue and negotiations.
KATHMANDU - A Nepali who was once the oldest climber to scale Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, is attempting to regain that title, at age 85, with hopes that the feat will help him spread a message of peace.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow will demand a United Nations investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria as it expected new provocations with toxic agents in the war-torn country.
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday visited an elephant reserve in England before its opening to the public and came face to face with the herd's youngest member named after her.
UNITED NATIONS - China's Belt and Road Initiative can contribute to the implementation of a United Nations facilitated sustainable development agenda, which aims to end poverty and promote prosperity, said UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo on Tuesday.
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