BANGKOK (AP) – Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the Nobel laureate who has been held out of public view since the military seized power in 2021.
Surf’s Pup! Making a splash at the Dog Surfing Championship
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for underprivileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – David Cifaldi and his two hiking companions were crossing Montana’s ominous Froze-to-Death Plateau and approaching the top of the state’s highest peak when their adventure took a bizarre and dangerous turn: Cifaldi slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole as he fell.
The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son.
Dramatic video captures teen lifeguard rescue a child from a monster surf
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – An Australian public library has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late and has no way of tracking down the errant borrower, a librarian said on Thursday.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – The only zoo in the Dominican Republic is providing a safe haven for confiscated illegal and smuggled animals as a government crackdown aimed at protecting exotic species gathers pace.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark’s iconic Noma restaurant is set to reopen on Aug. 5 with neither its founder and celebrity chef René Redzepi at the helm nor its three stars in the Michelin Guide.
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