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Byline: Yanan Wang The name is Mauss, Werner Mauss. Also, Dieter Koch, Klaus Mollner and Richard Nelson. In a tale ripe for Ian Fleming's pen, a renowned former German spy [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang TORONTO - Illegally entering Canada and being rescued by the coast guard was not what the swimsuit-clad Americans who were swept into foreign waters on Sunday had [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang For years, South African women and men have come to Rustenburg Local Municipality in droves, attracted by its location at the heart of the world's largest platinum [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang At first, the dog in the video appears cheerful, panting heavily with its tongue out. But then the camera pans - to the moving car pulling the [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang #اÙÙØ°ÙÙا #PokemonInSyria #PokemonGO #PrayForSyria pic.twitter.com/6S72uNTuxB The images capture in stark relief the concurrent realities of 2016: As Pokémon Go sweeps the globe, war rages on in Syria, [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Since an international tribunal ruled last week against Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, Chinese nationalists have expressed their contempt in a number of ways. There [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Fiji's Natadola Beach is a summer vacationer's paradise, replete with long stretches of white sand bounded by the Pacific Ocean. It is a popular destination for swimmers [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang A forthcoming issue of Marvel's 'Civil War II: Choosing Sides' series features on its cover a smiling, well-toned Justin Trudeau sitting at the corner of a boxing [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang When the Goldsboro, N.C., resident spotted the freezer at her neighbor's yard sale last month, she thought she was getting a good deal. The neighbor was charging [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The 2013 horror film 'The Purge' explores the fictional dystopian scenario in which the American government makes all crimes legal for one night every year. The scheme [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The unique statue, dubbed the Maltese Eagle or Golden Eagle, was commissioned by Ron Shore after a brush with death inspired him to reconsider his priorities. It [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Children the world over have grown up with the cherubic, lightning bolt-inspired, mouse-like creature known as Pikachu, the central character of the Pokemon media franchise. Spanning television [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang While her family and friends posted frantic online pleas for help and the New York Police Department scoured the city, 19-year-old Nayla Kidd was moving into her [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Harriet's life's work began after she lost use of her wings. For years, the bald eagle flew freely in the Wisconsin wild, over sprawling valleys and snaking [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met on the set of 'Rum Diary,' a 2011 movie based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel. In the film, Depp plays [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang A father of two in Clinton, Utah, said a trip to Walmart turned violent for him this Sunday. Christopher Adams was shopping for spring cleaning storage bins [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Stephanie Chatfield began her confession by thanking the person who pressured her into it. The wife of Michigan GOP State Rep. Lee Chatfield wrote in Facebook post [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang After years of asking the Texas State Board of Education to give more space to Latino communities in its textbooks, scholars and activists have gotten their wish. [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang At 21 years old, Roberto Gonzalez was drafted into the Army and sent to Vietnam, serving for only a few months when he was shot and left [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Growing up, Emilie Olsen had an infectious smile, a love for horses and a perfect attendance record. She was a straight-A student and an excellent volleyball player. [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang When Tustin, Calif. police officers entered 40-year-old Joshua West's hotel room in March, they found alleged illegal drugs, used needles and Bubba. According to a statement from [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang For years, the summit seemed out of reach, and not because Charlie Linville hadn't trained hard enough. A Marine Corps veteran at 30, Staff Sgt. Linville was [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang For years, the summit seemed out of reach, and not because Charlie Linville hadn't trained hard enough. A Marine Corps veteran at 30, Staff Sgt. Linville was [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang A Canadian fitness club has drawn ire for telling a large-chested woman that her sports tank constituted 'inappropriate dress.' Jenna Vecchio of Ottawa was working out at [...]

Byline: Heba Habib, Yanan Wang and Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO - Egyptian and Greek armed forces were searching the sea off Egypt for an EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people that disappeared [...]

Byline: Heba Habib, Sudarsan Raghavan and Yanan Wang CAIRO - Search vessels and aircraft combed the Mediterranean on Thursday after an EgyptAir flight from Paris disappeared from radar at 37,000 [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The likely reality of a November matchup between presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has sent many a would-be voter desperately seeking [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Mario Molina was crossing the Ysleta Bridge into Mexico from El Paso, Texas, last May when he was stopped by a Customs and Border Protection officer. Molina, [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Wesley Webb and her boyfriend, Keith Smith, were having an argument in their Schuylkill Township, Pa., living room last week when she activated her cellphone's audio recording [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang There is a late 19th-century painting called 'The Snake Charmer' which depicts a naked boy facing a group of huddled, dark-skinned men gawking and seated cross-legged on [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang In 2010, the Academy Award for Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow for the 'Hurt Locker,' making her the first woman to ever win in that category [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang It was the jug's strange composition that caught Alvin Barr's eye. The antiques broker from Oregon was at an estate sale when he noticed the object in [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The young men ran into the school bus one by one, carrying empty cardboard pizza boxes that they discarded by the driver's seat. They seemed to scamper [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Seven-year-old Vinny Desautels learned about cancer for the first time because his mother, Amanda Azevedo, was helping survivors of the disease get ready for a gala. She [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang For American high school students, prom is a rite of passage, an affair full of pomp and hormones and clumsy dancing. The eagerly-awaited event is often dangled [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang 'Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian,' read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of Harvard University's secretive, all-male 'finals clubs.' 'Porkies keep up their Porkie [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The yearbook photo showed a young woman in hijab, the speckled headscarf framing her smiling face in front of a sunny schoolyard. Underneath, a caption read: 'Isis [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang In E.L. Doctorow's 1989 novel 'Billy Bathgate,' the eponymous character is an Irish American 15-year-old who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Living in the Bronx [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The current weather in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, is a balmy 82 degrees. The skies are blue, the beaches plentiful, the vacationers giddy. Why wait for summer [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The story includes graphic material. --- Ashlynne Mike and her 9-year-old brother were playing by an irrigation canal Monday when a red van pulled up. They had [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang As night turned to day, and day into night again, the air in Fort McMurray, Alberta, remained thick with smoke. After a massive wildfire that has been [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The sky in Fort McMurray, Alberta, was grey with smoke. The ground beneath was glowing red -- with fire. Like everyone else, Cassie White, a 19-year-old resident [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Since 2004, Terces and Matthew Engelhart have built a devoted following around the idea of gratitude. Their commercial success, at least, is clear: their chain of 'organic, [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang SAN DIEGO -- Gabriela Esparza has a standing date on most Saturdays to talk to her mother, on a schedule that never changes. She drives down Interstate [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang The judge knew that Sgt. Joseph Serna had been through a lot. The former Special Forces soldier did four combat tours in Afghanistan over a nearly two-decades-long [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang On the night of Feb. 7, Marques Gaines left the downtown Chicago Marriott where he worked as a bartender. He joined some co-workers for drinks and dancing [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Students at Santee Education Complex, a high school in Los Angeles, thought they were settling a fraught debate in the simplest terms possible. Their campaign, launched this [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang Students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are accusing administrators of using its strict code of [...]

Byline: Yanan Wang As states and school districts grapple with laws or allowances around transgender bathroom use, one retail giant has made its stance public. In a statement on its [...]