PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A disastrous methane explosion that occurred at a coal mine in the Czech Republic on Friday, has been dubbed as the country's worst mining accident since 1990.
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Most Americans were awakened to the reality of terrorism on September 11, 2001, but more than a decade earlier, a few days before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, bound to New York from London
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WASHINGTION DC - Two Chinese men have been charged in a massive, years-long hacking campaign that stole personal and proprietary information from companies around the world.
The men, Zhu Hua
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Opposition leaders in Democratic Republic of Congo lashed the third postponement in the country's presidential elections on Friday as a deadly plane crash added to the ballot's woes.
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A French court has fined oil giant Total 500,000 euros ($575,000) after finding it guilty of paying bribes while bidding for a huge gas-field contract in Iran 10 years ago.
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NEW DELHI - India's drugs regulator has ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to stop manufacturing its Baby Powder using raw materials in two of its Indian factories until test results prove they are free of asbestos, a senior official said on Thursday (Dec 20).
PHNOM PENH - Pregnant and scared, Yin hides in a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh - one of an untold number of Cambodian surrogate mothers risking jail time for lucrative payouts from Chinese clients.
The end of China's one-child policy has driven desperate couples too old to bring a baby to term to poorer countries in the Mekong region, where a "womb-for-rent" industry is brushing up against legal barriers.
Cambodia banned commercial surrogacy in 2016 but still has brokers - and eligible young women - skirting the ban for a price.
WASHINGTON, U.S. - On Thursday, yet another high-profile departure from the Trump administration added to the already high mountain of worries facing the U.S. President, after the Defence Secretary
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - Exposing one of the most sensational cases of American intellectual property theft in recent times, the U.S. Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals who have been acc
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PYONGYANG, North Korea - In June this year, when the U.S. President Donald Trump held a historic first ever meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore - both the leaders ended ho
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MOSCOW, Russia - During his annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the threat of World War 3 is possible and must not be taken too
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From his hut on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest", Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night -- hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it's too late.
The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest's morbid reputation by reaching out to those who come to end their lives.
But now he fears his work is being undone.
A NINE-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu, India, with 14 world records in yoga and swimming has been awarded an honorary doctorate, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Identified as Prisha, she has won hundreds of national-level yoga competitions with her extraordinary aptitude for the ancient Indian practice.
Her mother and grandmother, who are yoga practitioners, guided her.
The three of them are planning a new record attempt of underwater yoga to be performed together.
PORT BLAIR, INDIA - One month after an isolated tribe killed an American missionary seeking to convert them, Indian police have still not tried to retrieve the body of John Allen Chau from his remote island grave.
But they are still trying to interview two American missionaries suspected of encouraging Chau to go to North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, in breach of a strict cordon put around its isolated inhabitants.
SUKABUMI, INDONESIA - Indonesian third-grader Mukhlis Abdul Holik begins the long haul to school with a knapsack strapped to his back and hands stuffed into a pair of sandals - to guard against road burn.
It is no ordinary trip for the eight-year-old. He has severely deformed feet and legs so tiny that he only reaches up to his classmates' waists when standing.
An exhausted Taiwanese man has received an outpouring of sympathy from the public after he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into three Ferrari cars.
Mr Lin Chin-hsiang, a 20-year-old restaurant worker, woke up to 12 million Taiwan dollars (S$534,570) worth of damage before him.
But since news about Sunday's accident broke, donations have poured in from all over Taiwan to help Mr Lin pay for the cost of the repairs, media reports say.
BEIJING, China - China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the country's President Xi Jinping delivered a key speech on Tuesday that was closely watched and analyzed across the world.&
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PARIS, France - With 80 professional journalists, media workers and citizen journalists killed on the job so far this year - 2018 has been declared as the worst year on record for deadly violence a
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HARARE, Zimbabwe-- Zimbabwe’s ex-first lady, Grace Mugabe has been issued with an arrest warrant for allegedly assaulting a model in a hotel in Johannesburg in 2017.
Grace who is the wi
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - Months after the U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to pull troops from Syria, now, U.S. defence officials have stated that plans to withdraw forces from the war-torn country are
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico-- The United States has pledged billions of dollars to help in the development of Central America as well as Mexico. This is to help strengthen economic ties in the region and a
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The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced on Wednesday that it was barring all public rallies, four days ahead of elections in the volatile central African country.
The govern
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