Offbeat | DNA test shows Vietnam twins had different fathers

A scientist and state media say Vietnam has identified an extremely rare set of bi-paternal twins, or twins with different fathers. Prof. Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of

The Buzz | Swiss arrest 15 suspected members of Italian crime syndicate

Swiss authorities have arrested 15 people sought by neighboring Italy as suspected members of the ‘ndrangheta organized crime syndicate. The Federal Office of Justice said the Italian citizens were arrested yesterday

Go master | AI will one day prevail but beauty of Go remains

  Computers eventually will defeat human players of Go, but the beauty of the ancient Chinese game of strategy that has fascinated people for thousands of years will remain, the Go

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CHINA has no plans to allow couples to have as many kids as they want after changing the one-child policy rule, a health official said yesterday. China’s population reached 1.375

Migrant crisis | Palestinian Syrian relives parents’ fate in becoming refugee

  Nearly 70 years after Abeer al Hosary’s parents fled Palestine, she is reliving their fate, forced to leave home with nearly nothing and start again from scratch in a foreign

Russia, West differ on UN report on Iran’s nuclear program

Russia and the West overcame differences to strike a landmark nuclear deal with Iran but are now divided on how well the U.N. atomic agency is reporting on whether Tehran

This Day in History | 1967 Stalin’s daughter defects to the West

The American Mutual Radio network broke the news but the American State Department has so far refused to comment. Since her father’s death in 1953, little has been heard of 42-year-old

Offbeat | Lost goldfish case in Norway closer to being solved

Bodo Police spokesman Tommy Bech says investigators “were very close to solving” the case of the lost goldfish, found abandoned Saturday in a shopping bag at a soccer stadium in

The Buzz | American company bungled Ebola response

An Associated Press investigation has found that an American company that bills itself as a pioneer in identifying emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola

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INDIA Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a polluted lake in India’s southern technology hub of Bangalore. People spotted the dead fish floating in Ulsoor

USA | Obituary: Nancy Reagan remembered for her forceful, private style

Unlike other presidential wives, Nancy Reagan didn’t testify before Congress about health care, celebrate controversial Supreme Court decisions or sit in on Cabinet meetings. “She never emerged as a political player

International Women’s Day: Celebrities urge world leaders to fight for girls and women

  A number of high-profile entertainers — including Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Charlize Theron and Meryl Streep have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to fight for gender

USA | Elections: Marco Rubio easily wins Republican primary in Puerto Rico

  Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida easily won Puerto Rico’s Republican presidential primary election yesterday , with supporters saying he would help lift the island out of its long economic slump. Returns

This Day in History | 1950 Gas turbine car gets road test

JET1, a two-seater model powered by the same kind of engine used in a jet, will have its first public test drive at the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire tomorrow. The

Offbeat | Dog pops up in driver’s seat when semi crashes in Minnesota

Customers at a Minnesota gas station saw a golden Labrador retriever appear to drive the semi across a road last week. Mankato police say the idling truck apparently was put into

The Buzz | Woman dies in elevator with power improperly cut off

The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power

Musicians and media figures celebrate Murdoch-Hall wedding

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage Saturday alongside family members, media executives and music stars in a church considered the spiritual home of British journalism. The media mogul groom

World Briefs

CHINA’s top economic planning official says it is impossible that the country’s economy would have a “hard landing” after a period of robust growth. PHILIPPINES The government says an American woman

Lula’s detention rattles Brazil as heat on Rousseff increases

  As soon as police raided the home of former Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and questioned him early Friday, red-shirted activists of his Workers’ Party took to the

Iraq | Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Baghdad

A suicide bomber yesterday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in

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