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Hong Kong police will close roads in Central starting from 2pm on New Year’s Eve ahead of a countdown event at the Chater Road pedestrian zone, featuring music and light shows to replace fireworks displays after the deadly inferno in Tai Po. Mason Hung Chung-hing, the Hong Kong Tourism Board’s lead adviser for event and product development, said on Monday that organisers hoped the event, themed “New Hope, New Beginning”, could foster a sense of renewal. “We will use a new format that combines...

Here's the latest batch of food safety inspection results from around the Lehigh Valley.

Business boomed at a street snack stall in China in a touching show of support for its owner whose son had died from cancer, leaving the man with three small children to look after. Video clips of long queues in front of a tanghulu stall near the Shandong Institute of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, in eastern China’s Shandong province, went viral online. People came to support the stall owner, surnamed Tian, whose 36-year-old son died from liver cancer this month. Tian junior was diagnosed...

The voters who put President Donald Trump back in the White House last year still largely support him.

When the television production company Jeff Nimoy worked for began falling behind on payroll in 2017, the Los Angeles showrunner wasn’t alarmed

In a library in the Philippines, dice rattle on the surface of a board before coming to a stop, putting one of its players straight into the path of a powerful typhoon. The teenagers huddled around the table leap into action, shouting instructions and acting out the correct strategies for just one of the potential catastrophes laid out in the board game called Master of Disaster. With fewer than half of Filipinos estimated to have undertaken disaster drills or to own a first aid kit, the game...

Trump says progress is being made on a deal between Ukraine and Russia, Israeli prime minister to meet with Trump Monday, anti-poverty groups are bracing for what lies ahead after a year of chaos.

The Israeli Prime Minister will meet President Trump in Florida Monday, with talks expected to focus on the next phases of the peace plan for Gaza.

With Israel's prime minister at the White House Monday, former peace negotiator Aaron David Miller speaks with NPR's Leila Fadel about the ways President Trump has reshaped U.S.-Israel relations.

China’s military released video of its forces carrying out live-fire drills around Taiwan to test “coordination and precision strike capabilities.” The latest round of drills follows a rise in Chinese rhetoric of Beijing’s territorial claims over the island, which Taiwan says “brutally undermines” regional stability.

You know where it is in your kitchen. It rests comfortably inside a drawer or cupboard. It might be a baking pan. It might be a mixing bowl. It might be a pot or pan. Whatever it is, somewhere in your kitchen sits an ancient piece of cookware. Perhaps it was owned by your parents […]

Emergency vehicles swarmed the aircraft which was pictured on the tarmac as tourists were evacuated on the runway with busses taking them back to the terminal