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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The cause of a fire that triggered a massive explosion at a West, Texas fertiliser plant has been ruled undetermined, and investigators have not eliminated the possibility that the fire was set intentionally, state and federal officials said on Thursday. Robert Champion, a special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said that while authorities could not rule out arson, they also could not eliminate the plant’s electrical system or a golf cart at the plant as potential causes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By OLIVER STRAND, on May 13th, 2013 Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia Coffee are opening outposts in Manhattan this month that reflect an ascendant interest in a custom-made cup.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan better known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, returns to court on Monday to appeal his conviction for a series of deadly bombings in France 30 years ago. The 63-year-old, who has been imprisoned in France since being captured in Sudan in 1994, was found guilty in 2011 of masterminding the 1982 and 1983 attacks on two French passenger trains, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> His star turn on the flight from Australia’s Perth to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur came after he lost a Grand Prix bet with the Malaysian budget carrier’s founder. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded Shanghai for its past role as a haven for Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution on a visit to the city’s former ghetto on Tuesday, as questions loom over the area’s future. Netanyahu, who arrived a day earlier at the start of an official visit to China, toured the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, which includes the Ohel Moshe synagogue that once served the community, a museum official said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 
One million schoolchildren in England are to be targeted by a measles vaccination plan aimed at curbing the growing threat of outbreaks.
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite the gloom in the West and a slowing expansion of China’s economy, free-spending Chinese consumers and wealthy Hong Kong locals craving exclusivity have proven a blessing to retailers looking to buck global woes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 
The planned sale of 632 UK bank branches by Lloyds Banking Group to the Co-op group falls through.
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Spain’s King Juan Carlos stood with a throng of smiling journalists and onlookers, exchanging pleasantries, laughing at jokes and even trying on a pair of sunglasses proffered by a reporter from a comedy show. That was a typical public appearance back in 1997 when he was one of the world’s most popular monarchs, the media treated him kindly and the idea of abdication would have seemed absurd. Now almost half of Spaniards think he should step down in favour of his son, Prince Felipe, 45, and over a third, mostly young people, want their country to become a republic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir arrived in Beijing yesterday at the start of a five-day official visit to China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With US$600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that’s feeding the rise of a new kind of money – a virtual currency whose oscillations have pulled geeks and speculators alike through stomach-churning highs and lows. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SUWANEE, Georgia (AP) — Police: Gunman holding 4 US firefighters hostage shot dead by police. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SUWANEE, Georgia (AP) — Multiple explosions heard in US neighborhood where gunman holding 4 firefighters hostage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — Research firm IDC: Global PC shipments plunge 14 percent in first quarter as Windows 8 flops. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Las Vegas Sands president William Weidner is expected to testify Wednesday in a $328 million breach of contract case brought by a Hong Kong businessman. Weidner was second only to Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson in the early 2000s when Richard Suen claims he helped the company enter the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. Suen says Sands stiffed him for his work. Adelson testified on Monday that Suen didn’t really help the company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rockefeller impostor found guilty of 1985 California murder. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rights activists reacted with indignation yesterday after Singapore’s High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalising sex between men. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, the court said it was up to parliament to repeal a provision in the penal code known as Section 377A, whose constitutionality has been questioned. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci. Used in nearly 400,000 surgeries in the US last year – triple the number just four years earlier -the system is also in use in Hong Kong hospitals, including Queen Mary and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Robotic surgery, in use in Hong Kong, comes under scrutiny
By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Obama said his blueprint for fiscal year 2014 would shield the middle class by closing tax loopholes that help the rich, would grow the economy, cut the deficit, train future American workers and protect senior citizens. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Images of spectacular mass games captured in secretive North Korea
<!– google_ad_section_start –> In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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