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Macau,
The shifts on board the ship are punishing: 12 hours on, 12 hours off, seven days a week, for a month straight — though pingpong and poker during the downtime
Amazon.com is introducing two devices designed to amplify the role its voice-controlled assistant Alexa plays in people’s homes and lives. The products unveiled yesterday are echoes of Amazon’s Echo, a cylinder-shaped
The archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan have been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, with plans for curated exhibitions from the trove to be
CHINA-RUSSIA The Bank of China will give Gazprom a 2 billion euro (USD2.2 billion), five-year loan, the Russian state-run energy company’s largest loan agreement from a single credit institution. In
Australian Cardinal George Pell A senior Vatican official told an Australian sex abuse inquiry yesterday that he did not immediately act when a boy raised abuse allegations against a cleric
A dozen people reclined on cots inside the clinic in the Haitian capital, a few so sick they were receiving intravenous infusions to rehydrate their bodies and spare them an
U.S. airlines are looking to serve Cuba primarily from their large hub cities, with Havana being the most popular destination. At least eight carriers submitted applications to the U.S. Department of
The star of such films as The Kid and The Great Dictator was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. The ceremony took place just miles from the south London district
One Austrian police station has dodged an explosive situation. The police station in Eisenstadt, east of Vienna, was evacuated Tuesday after a woman walked in with a live tank shell in
Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to sell SABMiller’s stake in China’s Snow Breweries for USD1.6 billion to ease regulatory concerns about the merger of the world’s two biggest beermakers. AB InBev says
Investigators searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are examining a possible Boeing Co. 777 component found off the coast of Mozambique, NBC reported, citing people it didn’t identify. The
CHINA’s official Xinhua News Agency says one Chinese citizen was killed and three injured in a shooting in Laos, also the scene of a January bombing that claimed Chinese lives.
Hassan Rasheed’s papers have been cleared but the Iraqi refugee has spent days freezing in a tent with no tarp on the ground and flaps that don’t close, one of
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton’s decisive Super Tuesday victories in the contest to win their parties’ presidential nominations have left rivals with few strategies to turn around the
Britain will be the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour. The announcement was made in the Commons by the Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The new service is
Scientists say a meteor was the cause of a bright flash of light reported by people across Scotland and northern England. Police Scotland said the force began receiving calls about 6:55
A Tiger Airways jet made an emergency landing in the Australian city of Melbourne after an odor was detected and crew members were reported ill, the government said. The Airbus A320
As Felix Sanchez watched the Academy Awards ceremony, he kept wondering when all the talk of diversity from host Chris Rock and others would itself become more diverse. “I was shocked
NORTH KOREA With tensions high and the United States and South Korea ready to hold their massive annual war games next week, which North Korea sees as a dress rehearsal
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are eyeing an opportunity to pull away from their rivals today in multiple state contests across the country that could accelerate their
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