MILAN (AP) – The Italian sculptor who designed the FIFA World Cup trophy wanted to capture three sporting emotions in a single spiraling form: the athlete’s struggle, the fan’s jubilation and the moment of victory.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Chien Le first met the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara in 2005, a few years before Pannakara became a novice monk at the Texas Buddhist temple where he is now the deputy abbot.
LITOCHORO, Greece (AP) – Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Rising to 2,918 meters (9,573 feet) from a base practically at sea level, the ancient Greeks believed the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, stood on the highest of its craggy, often mist-shrouded peaks.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Rain had turned the dirt road into thick mud, but Mabel Djoumessi kept walking with her 9-month-old son, Kenfack, strapped to her back. His malaria vaccination appointment at a clinic in central Cameroon was too important to miss.
Manta tracking project aims to protect Japan's ocean and coastal rays
WASHINGTON (AP) – An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments – by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.
Pomp and tradition meets conservation in annual swan count on the river Thames
See the stunning Buddhist temple aiming for UNESCO World Heritage status
Palestinian in Gaza dedicates himself to restoring burnt or torn copies of the Quran
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