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Heralded by David W. Griffith as the motion picture " find" of the year and a potential cinema star, A. Barton Hepburn, 24-year-old son of a prominent New York banker is given a screen test on May 19, 1927. Griffith, left, discovered Hepburn at the Little Theatre Playhouse in New York. Hepburn, at right, is unmarried and to be the heir of a $20,000,000 fortune. (AP Photo)

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FILE – In this Saturday, April 4, 2015 file photo, recently rescued Burmese fishermen smile on their boat upon arrival in Tual, Indonesia. The Burmese men were among hundreds of migrant workers revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been lured or tricked into leaving their countries and were brought to Indonesia to be forced to catch seafood. The number of enslaved fisherman found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned on Thursday, April 9, to make sure no one had been left behind in the dramatic rescue nearly a week ago of 330 migrants from Benjina.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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Manuela Sales da Silva Ferreira, owner of the family-run Restaurante Litoral, puts egg yolk on a crabmeat shell in a kitchen of her restaurant in Macao, on Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

Preserving Macao’s fusion cuisine with recipes passed down generations

MACAO (AP) — A crack of fire under a sprawling wok, a dab of soy sauce and a splash of Chinese rice wine. Bursts of aroma from spices sourced from around the world sizzle as a chef prepares Minchi, a dish of fried minced meat with diced potatoes topped with a sunny-side-up egg. This is […]

DEC. 9, 2024

Rave attendees dance to electronic music in Changchun in northeastern China’s Jilin province on Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

AP offers rare look at China’s techno rave subculture, and the rebellious angst behind it

Elsie Chen in Washington and Dake Kang in Beijing collaborated around the world to give a glimpse into an often-secretive subculture of techno-music raves that are suddenly booming and thumping in the dark hallways and tunnels of China. While much has been written about the pressures young Chinese face from an ailing economy and an […]

NOV. 22, 2024

Yu Miao, owner of JF Books, speaks to The Associated Press in his bookstore in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, far from its last location in Shanghai, where the Chinese government forced him out of business six years ago. “There is no pressure from […]

NOV. 18, 2024

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Working Well: The simple act of taking deep breaths can reduce stress and anxiety

NEW YORK (AP) — A simple, uncommon ritual starts each staff meeting at Myosin Marketing. When everyone is gathered on Zoom, and before they get to the meat of the agenda, CEO Sean Clayton leads his team through a deep-breathing exercise. The practice sets the tone for the meeting, and helps his employees, most of […]

NOV. 14, 2024

FILE – Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Kittanning, Pa., Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills

Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills. Trump often railed on the campaign trail against hefty price increases for bacon, cereal, crackers and other items. “We’ll get them down,” he told shoppers during a September visit to a Pennsylvania grocery […]

NOV. 14, 2024

A ghost mannequin at Goosebump market as a part of Halloween festival in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

AP’s global footprint produces a unique take on ‘spooky season stories’

Editor Donna Edwards in Bangkok had an idea: How could AP’s global footprint bring out some of the lesser-known scary stories and legends around the world that might not have anything to do with Halloween but could be centered for “spooky season”? They proposed canvassing colleagues for those unusual stories and then compiling them into […]

NOV. 8, 2024

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Share the stories of daily life around the world

Our lifestyle content

From runways to robots

Special features

Trends and innovations

Explore our related content and services

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Recent lifestyle stories

Preserving Macao’s fusion cuisine with recipes passed down generations

AP offers rare look at China’s techno rave subculture, and the rebellious angst behind it

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

Working Well: The simple act of taking deep breaths can reduce stress and anxiety

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills

AP’s global footprint produces a unique take on ‘spooky season stories’

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