South Africa’s annual Zulu Reed Dance ceremony was disrupted by hallucinating girls who swarmed the country’s president, a Johannesburg newspaper reported on Monday. Teenage girls dancing in the annual cultural festival
A mother who fled with her daughter to Central America more than a decade ago amid a custody dispute is set to report to jail. Genevieve Kelley pleaded guilty in
Zaha Hadid Architects, the company whose stadium design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was chosen and later scrapped, says it is teaming up with major Japanese design and engineering company
NEW ZEALAND A retired French secret service agent has apologized for planting the bombs which sank a Greenpeace ship 30 years ago, killing a photographer and causing an international incident
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on “a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us,” said yesterday that all EU countries could help to accommodate the human tide from the
An independent report presented yesterday (Macau time) dismantles the Mexican government’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students, saying the prosecutor’s contention that they were incinerated in a
A relative says the mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a firebomb attack blamed on Jewish extremists has died of wounds suffered in the July attack. The baby’s uncle
General Eisenhower - the commander in chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean - said the Italian Government had agreed to end all hostilities with the United Nations. In a broadcast
A New York City millionaire who died this summer has bequeathed a USD100,000 trust fund to care for her 32 pet cockatiels. The New York Post reported Saturday that Leslie
One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but when. Obesity in
CAMBODIA One of four refugees resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on the Pacific island nation
The 3-year-old boy could have been dressed for preschool. Instead he was lying face down in the surf. Suddenly offers of money, meals and refuge are pouring in to help the
The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are “fleeing death” from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced yesterday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across
For weeks while they traveled a punitive road, Europe cast a cold eye on their unwelcome progress. On Saturday, for the first time since fleeing their troubled homelands, they could
The Ministry of Home Security said the scale of the attacks was the largest the Germans had yet attempted. “Our defenses have actively engaged the enemy at all points,” said a
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, a senior disciplinary official has issued a stern warning against corruption and extravagance. While lauding the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) fight against
Durban in South Africa will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first African city to be awarded the four-yearly multi-sports event. The 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth Games
Al Capone, with raised eyebrows, appeared to be taking a curious sideways glance at the two-minute video of soccer playing and talk about corruption and crooks. The same Las Vegas museum
HONG KONG’s Land Registry recorded 5,197 sale and purchase agreements for all building units in August, down 29.2 percent on July and down 34.2 percent year-on-year, it said yesterday. The
Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international train station yesterday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other wealthy
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