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Macau,
Sixty-six surfers have set a world record for most people riding a board at once. Surf champions and local heroes were among those who hung loose on a custom built, 42-foot
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted in France on pimping charges this month, but his legal headaches may not be over. While Strauss-Kahn will try to put the
AFGHANISTAN A Taliban suicide bomber strikes the entrance to the Afghan parliament and gunmen try to storm the heavily guarded compound, setting off a gun battle with police that leaves
A much-awaited United Nations report into the 2014 Gaza war released yesterday found that both Israel and the Palestinians may have committed war crimes. The commission said it gathered “substantial information
The Al-Jazeera journalist who was detained in Berlin on an Egyptian arrest warrant has been released from custody, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutors’ office said yesterday. Stefan Stoehr said Ahmed
The European Union launched a naval operation yesterday to try to stop human-traffickers from bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe in unseaworthy boats, a lucrative and at times deadly
Eurozone finance ministers broke off talks yesterday without an agreement on Greece’s bailout, saying they aim to reach a deal later this week that might keep the country from defaulting and
It is the second time Pope John Paul II - who was formerly Archbishop of Krakow - has returned to his native Poland since he became head of the Roman
Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last week that a medical marijuana patient who was fired
Airplane pilots in Portugal have been advised to fly with special care after 70,000 homing pigeons were released in Spain to participate in a race back to their homes in
CHINA Heavy storms that swept through several southern Chinese provinces this past week killed 18 people and left four more missing. The storms have dumped more than 20 centimeters of
Members of a historic black church in the U.S. were to return to their sanctuary yesterday and worship less than a week after a white gunman killed nine people there,
Airline officials said they do not know the cause of the crash, but suspected it was caused by a bomb planted by Sikh extremists. The Boeing 747 plunged into the
After Donald Trump’s Mexico-bashing comments last week, Mexicans are engaging in a little Trump-bashing of their own. Call it revenge, Mexican style. Artisan Dalton Avalos Ramirez launched a Trump pinata
For years, diabetic Shawkat al-Khalili ignored his doctor’s orders not to fast during the holy month of Ramadan when most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims abstain from food and
Facing a cash crisis, Puerto Rico is turning to desperate measures to pay the bills: It’s delaying tax refunds, borrowing from its insurance company and may even legalize the black-market
In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called yesterday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a “structurally perverse” economic system where the
CHINA’s Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd., a provider of internet security products and popular mobile browser, has received a USD9.1 billion offer from a group led by its chief executive
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