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R. Praggnanandhaa has been awarded the coveted title of Grand Master -- at just 12 years and 10 months of age.

Indian boy becomes world's second-youngest chess grandmaster

Authorities are searching for the 13 missing people.

Rescuers search for a teenage soccer team believed to be trapped in a cave in Thailand

Bags of heroin and fentanyl are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust in New York City in 2016.

China lectures the Unites States on opioid crisis

On December 13, 1950 during memorial services at the First Marine cemetery in Hungnam, Korea, Corporal Charles Price sounds "Taps" over the graves of fallen U.S. Marines following the division's heroic break-out from Chosin Reservoir. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

68 years after the Korean War, hundreds of US families are still searching for closure

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her husband, Clarke Gayford, with their newborn baby daughter.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand PM, reveals baby daughter's name

School children hold placards and participate in a silent protest rally against the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Ranchi last May. Indian police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of kidnapping, raping and burning to death a teenage girl, the latest in rising crimes against women in India despite toughening of laws. District Magistrate Jitendera Singh said the accused abducted the girl from Chatra, a village in eastern Jharkhand state, while she was attending a wedding ceremony on Thursday. AP Photo

2 arrested in gang rape of anti-trafficking activists in India; police hunt for others

Thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops conduct annual military drills. The United States and South Korea stress that the exercises, named Foal Eagle and Key Reserve, are defensive and non-provocative in nature. One of the joint drills, Key Resolve, ended today according to the Combined Forces Command, a military force in charge of the operation.

US suspends military exercises with South Korea after Singapore summit

School children hold placards and participate in a silent protest rally against the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Ranchi last May. Indian police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of kidnapping, raping and burning to death a teenage girl, the latest in rising crimes against women in India despite toughening of laws. District Magistrate Jitendera Singh said the accused abducted the girl from Chatra, a village in eastern Jharkhand state, while she was attending a wedding ceremony on Thursday. AP Photo

5 anti-trafficking activists gang-raped in India, police say

TOKYO, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 11: A bento box containing grilled chicken and vegetables from a convenience store or "konbini" is pictured on September 11, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's Konbini stores (convenience stores) are famous for their high quality food, available 24hours a day. Many of the stores have 2-5 deliveries per day of fresh, often locally sourced products all prepared in ready to eat packaged meals, catering mostly to office workers and travellers. As of July 30, 2015, Japan's minimum wage was 780yen (approx. $6.45 USD) lower than in many countries, including the United States. With a small 2.3 percent rise in minimum wages expected this year, the cheap convenience store meals popularity has seen a steady rise in sales, fast food and daily food sales of convenience stores for 2014 was 3,807,614 million yen, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Japanese employee fined for taking 3 minutes out of work to order lunch

South Korean Park Yang-Gon (L) meets with his North Korean brother Park Yang-Soo during a family reunion after being separated for 60 years on February 20, 2014 in Mount Kumgang, North Korea.

North, South Korea to hold reunions for families long separated by war

The piece of skull found in a Chinese royal tomb that uncovered the new genus of gibbon.

Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb a warning for the world

Indonesian anti-terror police officers escort Aman Abdurrahman (C), who masterminded a 2016 gun and suicide attack in the capital Jakarta that left four attackers and four civilians dead, after hearing the judges' verdict at a South Jakarta court in Jakarta on June 22, 2018. - Indonesian cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death over his role in a 2016 Islamic State terror attack that saw a suicide bomber blow himself up at a Jakarta Starbucks cafe. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)

Jakarta court sentences extremist cleric to death

A boy was bullied for wearing lipstick. So his cousin and her family wore pink lipstick in support.

A boy was bullied for wearing pink lipstick. So his cousins wore lip color in support

Indonesian rescuers search for a ferry which sank on Monday in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia Wednesday, June, 20, 2018. Distraught relatives slammed Indonesia's government for not enforcing basic safety measures on passenger boats and pleaded Wednesday for a bigger search effort for the people missing since a ferry sank on a picturesque Sumatran lake early this week. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Indonesian ferry: Anger grows, search extended for 192 missing people

Screen shot from Chinese media shows a conference of the at the No.701 Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation with picture in background of China's two current ski-jump carriers flanking a larger ship with a flat deck

Will China have aircraft carrier that can match US Navy's?

In this Wednesday, June 20, 2018, photo provided on Thursday, June 21, 2018, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, followed by his wife Ri Sol Ju, in red, arrives at North Korean Embassy in Beijing. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim Jong Un looks to the East for economic inspiration

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