Author: Newslook

A bakery in Hong Kong is selling mooncakes sporting popular slogans from recent pro-democracy protests.

People demonstrate at Parliament Square and outside Downing Street against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament.

A group of archeologists say the 227 bodies they have unearthed from a site used by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture on Peru’s northern coast is the biggest-ever discovery of sacrificed children.

British supermarkets are starting to go “nude”. Bowing to pressure from environmentally conscious consumers, big brand shops have begun taking steps to strip their shelves of plastic wrapping over concerns about saving the oceans from waste.

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Iceland honors the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

Take a break and head to Colombia, where the city of Itagui marks “World Laziness Day,” a quirky effort to urge overstressed workers to slow down.

Barbecued field rats are not everybody’s idea of a tasty treat, but in Cambodia’s rural Battambang province they are popular as a cheap, quick snack.

Skateboarding will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo next year, but many in the growing scene in China’s mega-city of Shanghai complain that they have few places to go and are looked down upon as trouble-makers.