LOS ANGELES - An accountant for the Academy Awards botched the meticulous procedure for announcing the Oscar for best picture when he handed victory to La La Land before declaring Moonlight the real winner, PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Monday.
NEW YORK - It's goodbye for now to the grand Art Deco lobby and celebrities crossing paths en route to "The Towers" at the Waldorf Astoria: one of the world's most luxurious hotels is closing for renovation.
WARSAW - The son of a Nazi official has returned three artworks that his family had looted from the southern Polish city of Krakow during World War II.
ALAPPUZHA, INDIA - Flocks of storks and cormorants perched on bamboo stilts peer into the blue-black depths of Vembanad Lake in India's southwest Kerala state, searching hungrily for food.
LONDON - Despite their tiny brains, bumblebees can be trained to score goals using a mini-ball, revealing unprecedented learning abilities, according to a study by scientists from the Queen Mary University of London.
HANOI, VIETNAM - "The job is not too tough and brings me a rather good income," Dao Van Dung, a 23-year-old citizen in Vietnam's capital of Hanoi, told Xinhua about his job as a motorbike taxi driver using the ride-hailing app GrabBike.
LONDON - A strategy aimed at ensuring Britain becomes the safest place in the world for young people to go online was announced on Monday by the government. It follows a study showing four out of five parents were concerned about their children sexting, a higher proportion than parents who fear their offspring will smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol.
WASHINGTON - On the eve of his first congressional address on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump offered a taste of his upcoming budget, announcing he would ask Congress for a nearly 10 percent rise in military spending and a large cut in foreign aid.
SEOUL - Special prosecutors of the Republic of Korea on Tuesday branded impeached President Park Geun-hye as a criminal suspect for bribery charge in collusions with her friend Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of the corruption scandal.
KUALA LUMPUR - A high-level delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday to seek the repatriation of the body of a citizen, who was killed during an incident at Kuala Lumpur's airport on Feb 13.
LONDON - The UK government needs to approach divorce talks with the European Union with more charm and less "cheap rhetoric" if it wants to get a good deal, former Conservative prime minister John Major said on Monday.
BERLIN - Migrants and their homes in Germany faced more than 3,500 attacks in 2016, a number that is "alarmingly high and cause for concern," a German official said on Monday, while adding that the crimes are being aggressively prosecuted and the numbers of such attacks are now falling.
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