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Small wonders: The Vietnamese artist making tiny food

HANOI — Squinting in concentration, Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thi Ha An drops a bright red chili onto a bowl of pho noodles barely bigger than

Lost portrait of Charles Dickens to go on show in London

The miniature portrait of Charles Dickens by Margaret Gillies was rediscovered in 2017, after being lost for over 130 years.

The sweet taste of success: a Syrian’s journey from Gitmo to pastries

Montevideo, Uruguay — Ahmed Ahjam spent more than 12 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, but now he has seen a dream come true by starting a business in the country that welcomed him when the nightmare ended.

Doctor pulls live leech out of Chinese man’s nostril

A doctor painstakingly used forceps to widely open the man’s nostril, and then pulled out the bloodsucker with tweezers.

LOOK: ‘Banana-flavored banana cue’ mystifies fans of the beloved snack

How can banana flavor be further incorporated in a banana cue? Filipinos being Filipinos poked fun at the mystery.

Sexiest American accents for Europeans

Next time you’re in Paris and needing to use a cafe bathroom, put on your best accent from the U.S. Deep South to raise your chances of being waved through.

104-year-old Walmart customer treated to surprise birthday party

There’s much to learn about customer relations from a grocery store in a small city in the US. In Bryant, Arkansas, the staff of popular

This is a Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 file photo of Clare Hollingworth, center, a British former longtime foreign correspondent, is surrounded by friends and admirers at her birthday party at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club. British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland that started World War II, has died in Hong Kong Tuesday Jan. 10, 2017, at the age of 105. She spent her life on the front lines of the world's major conflicts, reporting from the Middle East, North Africa and Vietnam, for British newspapers, then lived her final decades in Hong Kong after being stationed in China in the 1970s. AP

Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke news of WW II, dies

HONG KONG — Clare Hollingworth, a British war correspondent who was the first to report the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II, died in Hong Kong on Tuesday. She was 105.

Perfect pitch: Blind man can name birds through their sounds

Born blind, Juan Pablo Culasso has never seen a bird. But through his gifted sense of hearing, he can identify more than 3,000 different bird sounds and differentiate more than 720 species.

3 New Yorkers find $40,000 in old widow’s sofa

For all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbors thought they’d won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.