Exactly 50 years ago, China embarked on what was formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a decade of tumult launched by Mao Zedong to revive communist goals and enforce a
Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he will reimpose the death penalty, offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, and move to amend the constitution to give more power to
Malaysia’s economy grew at the slowest pace in more than six years as exports weakened and private investment eased, adding pressure on policy makers to boost growth amid an uneven
Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer said he will only gain popular recognition if he produces tangible results for the population, while pledging not to run for the country’s top job
Iranian police have arrested eight people in a new crackdown targeting “un-Islamic acts” online such as female models posting images of themselves without their hair covered, state media reported yesterday,
It was dug up from a field about a mile away from the Chaplin home in Corsier near Lausanne, Switzerland. The legendary comedian died on Christmas Day last year, aged 88.
Philadelphia police officers attached a large Google Maps logo to a surveillance van in an apparent attempt to disguise it as one of the company’s street-filming cars. Police spokesman Lt. John
Benfica won its third straight Portuguese league title by defeating Nacional 4-1 in yesterday’s last round, setting a new league record with 88 points from 34 matches. Nicolas Gaitan scored two
Teenage striker Marcus Rashford was selected in England’s provisional 26-man squad yesterday ahead of the European Championship, less than three months after making his debut for Manchester United. The 18-year-old Rashford
Top Rank founder and CEO Bob Arum enjoyed a series of spectacular results in Hong Kong this weekend after Kuok Kun Ng a.k.a. “The Macau Kid,” and Hong Kong’s Rex
The mayor of greater Manchester yesterday demanded an inquiry into a security “fiasco” that saw Manchester United’s stadium evacuated after a fake bomb was left behind from a security training
It will take more than a “Global Declaration Against Corruption” to rid the world of an age-old scourge, but don’t dismiss last week’s anti-corruption summit in London too quickly. The surge
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Pope Francis says he’s willing to create a commission to study whether women can serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling the possibility of letting women serve in ordained
CHINA A navy fighter jet on a nighttime training mission crashed into buildings in an eastern city, but the pilot ejected safely and there were no reports of casualties. AUSTRALIA All
Two British and a Mexican climber yesterday became the first foreigners to scale Mount Everest in two years together with three Nepalese guides, officials said. The six climbers reached the 8,850-meter
Millennials, also known as “Generation Y,” are the demographic cohort termed by experts in the West as those born between 1980 and 2000. Exhibiting shared traits that according to some
The giant rubber duck, situated close to the Macau Science Center, has made quite the splash in Macau since its arrival at the end of last month; but not everyone
He has also come under fire for simultaneously commercializing the project and criticizing authorities of doing the same thing – most notably in Taiwan, where he publicly complained about the
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