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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Torrential rain pounded the city for more than five hours early yesterday, causing landslides, flooding, traffic chaos and business disruptions. No injuries were reported, but more than 300 flights were delayed. A plane was struck by lightning but landed safely at Chek Lap Kok airport carrying 100 passengers and crew members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TOKYO (AP) — A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan’s main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. It’s not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, squid rings and other products now cost more to sell in Japan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s flood-prone cities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for rising populations, experts said yesterday at a water security forum. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year and central Thailand in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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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Snow is reported in Shropshire and on Dartmoor as winds of up to 65mph hit Devon and Cornwall.
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By By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD, on May 11th, 2013 A new law will cause flood insurance premiums to skyrocket and require stricter, and thus more expensive, rebuilding standards.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace last year, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency said on Thursday. In a report on the situation last year, the World Meterological Organisation said that during the August to September melting season, the Arctic’s sea ice cover was just 3.4 million square kilometres. That was a full 18 per cent less than the previous record low set in 2007. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fu Maoyan and his wife have been busy building a storehouse for pig feed beside their three pigsties. The more than 80 pigs they raise and their pig feed business have made them better off than most households in Qingbao village in Hubei’s mountainous Enshi autonomous prefecture. Even so, they failed to make ends meet last year, earning about 10,000 yuan from their small business but spending more than 20,000 yuan on medical care for Fu’s father and his funeral and caring for their sons, one aged 10 and the other two. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JOSEPH BERGER, on April 26th, 2013 Many restaurants and other businesses still closed since Hurricane Sandy, in places like Sheepshead Bay, Red Hook and the Rockaways, are concerned about the coming season.
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Germany’s Greens, the country’s third-biggest political force, will hold a party congress this weekend, five months ahead of elections in which Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a third term and the environmentalists could potentially play kingmaker. The Greens party, with its roots in the 1970s anti-nuclear and peace movements, are now mainstream and the preferred choice of well-off urbanites who shop organic and cycle to work. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Government minister says death toll in Bangladesh building collapse rises to 161. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s government-controlled parliament set up an inquiry on Wednesday into violence over a disputed election that authorities blame on opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Nine people died and dozens were injured after opposition protests against Nicolas Maduro’s narrow April 14 presidential poll win turned violent around the South American nation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of homes were destroyed and at least 47 people were injured after two earthquakes, at 4.8 and 4.2 magnitude, jolted Sichuan’s Yibin city on Thursday morning, said a government website. Yibin is about 300 kilometres from Yaan, where a 7-magnitude temblor on Saturday killed more than 190 people. The city has about 4.4 million residents, according to a 2010 census. Thursday’s twin quakes ocurred around 6am, according to a Sichuan government website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador in Seoul on Thursday in protest over visits by senior officials and lawmakers to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbours as a symbol of wartime aggression, the Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap said the South’s foreign ministry had called in Tokyo’s envoy in protest over the shrine visits and comments made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China and South Korea chastised Japan after more than 160 lawmakers visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese internet users exposed on Tuesday, that a noodle shop in Yingjing County had raised prices of their popular dandan noodles from an original five yuan per bowl, to 20 yuan per bowl. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan heightened surveillance of travellers from China on Thursday after authorities confirmed the island’s first case of a new deadly strain of bird flu. The 53-year-old man became ill with fever after returning from a visit to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu on April 9, the Centres for Disease Control said. He twice tested negative for H7N9 but eventually tested positive on Wednesday after his condition deteriorated, CDC official Chang Feng-yi said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four-year-old Wang Yanxia was considered lucky and a gift to her family — for she was born in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Wenchuan, Sichuan, in 2008. But now her family is struggling to face the harsh truth that their daughter was killed in the Yaan quake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Friday, May 31
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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