The "blind box" toys, first popularised in Japan, have fixated China in recent years, driving a booming second-hand market and decorating the desks of white-collar workers across the country. "Blind box" toys give buyers a sense of mystery, showing a range of possible figures inside, and occasionally giving out a rare and unadvertised figure when opened.
April's full moon, known as the "Super Pink Moon", was seen across the globe on Tuesday, April 27.
The Red Cross is helping India gain control of a record wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths that have overwhelmed its health care system. On Tuesday, India reported 323,144 new infections for a total of more than 17.6 million cases. (April 27)
A captain with the New York City Department of Corrections has been charged with criminally negligent homicide for allegedly ordering subordinates not to help a detainee as he hanged himself in a cell.
With police training programs across the country under intense scrutiny after Derek Chauvin's murder conviction, one department in California is using several high-profile police killings of Black Americans as it trains the next generation of officers to better anticipate and respond to high-risk encounters.
Loveland, Colorado police officers laughed and joked as they watched body camera video of the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, according to footage released by the woman's attorney.
In an exclusive interview with VOA, the director of Oxford University's Jenner Institute says their new malaria vaccine, tested in Burkina Faso, has shown a preliminary efficacy rate of 77%, which could help prevent over 400,000 deaths a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Minneapolis Pastor Curtis Farrar discusses the death of George Floyd after Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder. CNN's Adrienne Broaddus reports.
An Alaska state lawmaker who called flight attendants "mask bullies" and clashed with airline employees on video over mask rules is now banned from Alaska Airlines for her "continued refusal to comply" with the mask policy, the airline said in a statement.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN's Jake Tapper that the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan will help concentrate the minds of "free riders" in the region about their interests in keeping the country stable in the future.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio brief the media about a 43-year-old NYPD officer who was struck and killed on the Long Island Expressway by an intoxicated driver who fled the scene and was later arrested.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York state is adopting the new guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding masking. (April 27)
