Woman detained after man found dead in Malaysian flat
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained an Indonesian woman who was found in the same flat as a man who was brutally killed and had his genitals severed, news reports said Thursday. The victim, whose identity had yet to be ascertained, was foun...
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Hong Kong police probe Facebook group planning 'mass suicide'
Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were Thursday trying to trace the founder of a Chinese-language Facebook group whose members claim to be planning a mass suicide on December 21. The investigation was triggered after a 15-year-old member of the group w...
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New Zealand river defies 'pure' tourism puff
Wellington - New Zealand, which promotes itself as 100 per cent pure in its publicity aimed at foreign tourists, has one of the most polluted rivers in the Western world, according to research published on Thursday. The North Island's 182-kilometre...
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Nighttime revolution - 20 years of Berlin's unified nightclub scene
Berlin - This year marks not only the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall it also marks the beginning of the city's unique club scene. Right now Berliners are celebrating two peaceful revolutions; that of the wall and the second one that ...
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Young African uses micro loans to build two enterprises
Addis Ababa - Manush Ambaye carefully places pieces together to form the upper part of a chimney. These ovens use less wood than a normal fireplace, she said, proudly describing the advantages of the ovens she builds in her small workshop. ...
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Jogging pants gain ground on fashion scene
Hamburg - Jogging pants have become standard attire on the street, at fitness studios and in holding rooms at police stations. The casual loose pants are hip in part thanks to idols of the rap and hip hop scene. They have long been the choice of such...
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Serbian village's charcoal burners happily in the black
Klokocevac, Serbia - Charcoal piles are smoking in the narrow valleys of Klokocevac, a small village in eastern Serbia 15 kilometres south of the Danube River near the Romanian and Bulgarian borders. The grilling season in Western Europe is long over...
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Venice's resident population keeps sinking
Venice - Is Venice, the lagoon city of canals and gondolas, in danger of becoming an open-air museum teeming with foreign tourists and devoid of Venetians? The fear may seem exaggerated, but it is true that the number of natives keeps sinking. In Oct...
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Germany's beloved currywurst, aged 60 and still going strong
Munich - Herta Heuwer was stuck in her snack stall in the western Berlin district of Charlottenburg. She was finished cleaning up for the day but it was raining cats and dogs and she had no umbrella. So she started to experiment. There was no more mu...
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Memories of Bhopal disaster haunt survivors 25 years on - Feature
Bhopal, India - Flashbacks of the ghoulish drive through Bhopal, with sick and blinded gas victims imploring him for help, still haunt autorickshaw driver Jeevan Shinde. Now 59 years old, Shinde has not got over the horrors that unfolded before him t...
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