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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Is anything in China real? Study finds some silk on sale in Beijing do not contain any silk <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mainland scholar has suggested downsizing the ruling Communist Party by setting up an “exit mechanism” to cut at least 31 million members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nigel Wright, Harper’s chief of staff, resigned after secretly giving a C$90,000 (HK$679,360) cheque in February to Mike Duffy, a member of the upper Senate chamber, to help him cover living expenses he had improperly claimed. News of the gift leaked late on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Josh Dzieza, on May 19th, 2013 Freaking out about cicadas is a grand tradition. Josh Dzieza mines the archives.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.
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A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
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No 10 denies that “anyone in Downing Street” made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A “squeezed generation” of middle-aged Europeans are convinced they are going to be poorer in retirement than their parents, according to a global survey that found the Chinese the most confident about their future and the French, Germans and Spanish the most pessimistic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Adam Doster, on May 18th, 2013 Were her curves too much for Ruth and Gehrig? Adam Doster follows the trail of an amazing story.
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The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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By By IAN AUSTEN, on May 18th, 2013 Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 The UN’s refugee agency says that more than 1.5m people have fled the conflict in Syria, and warns the total is likely to be far higher.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A float mocking the embattled former ICAC boss was the centrepiece of yesterday’s Cheung Chau Bun Festival parade. But the annual tradition of sending up political figures may have seen its last incarnation, with the island’s sole float-maker announcing his retirement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan may impose new sanctions on the Philippines after Manila toughened its stand over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by its coastguard last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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