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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the national narcotics agency said. “Because she smuggled drugs weighing more than five grams, she could face the death penalty,” agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By IAN AUSTEN, on May 18th, 2013 A video being shopped by two men with drug connections apparently shows Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto smoking a crack pipe.
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By Caitlin Dickson, on May 17th, 2013 A crack video, a DUI, and lots of inappropriate comments. Caitlin Dickson on Rob Ford’s trail of trouble.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People who struggle with maths fare better after a course of gentle electric shocks to the brain, British scientists have claimed. Psychologists at Oxford University found that students scored higher on mental arithmetic tasks after a five-day course of brain stimulation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 17th, 2013 A couple of disclaimers here. The Toronto Star is a paper notoriously hostile to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. The video in question comes from unreliable sources. Etcetera and etcetera. Caveat lector.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The driver of a speedboat which crashed killing a father and daughter was not wearing the safety cord which could have stopped the engine, investigators say.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down yesterday by a court in the southern province of Long An, were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A major casino operator is accusing one of the world’s top professional poker players, Phil Ivey, of amassing millions of dollars in winnings by cheating at a London baccarat game. Court papers filed in Britain’s High Court by the Malaysia-based Genting Group say the American successfully used a scam involving a Cantonese-speaking accomplice and an unwitting Chinese dealer to rack up winnings of roughly £7.8 million (HK$92 million) last summer. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Excavation work at a To Kwa Wan railway construction site has been suspended after more than 50 residents were evacuated because of reports that nearby buildings were shaking. The residents of four blocks in Maidstone Road were allowed to return two hours later after their homes were declared safe. But work on the MTR’s Ma Tau Wai station remained suspended. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cancer campaigners have applauded actress Angelina Jolie for going public about her double mastectomy, but warned women against rushing out to be tested for the gene mutation that threatened her life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Internet users have been warned to be careful when seeking casual relationships online after a mainland businessman lost HK$300,000 in cash and valuables through such a liaison. The man, 34, got to know the woman through mobile messaging service WeChat and invited her to his room in the Sheraton Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday night. She told him she was visiting from Beijing for sightseeing and would return to the mainland today. Carrying a suitcase, the Putonghua-speaking woman in her 20s arrived at his room late on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have reclassified a case of wounding and assault in North Point as murder after the victim died in hospital. Construction worker Ng Chi-cheung, 42, was on his way home with two male friends, both aged 38, when the attack occurred at about 11.30pm on Saturday. Ng slipped into a vegetative state and was put on life support until hospital doctors declared him dead at 5.27pm on Tuesday, shortly after his wife and relatives arrived from the mainland. Anti-triad officers are hunting six men, thought to be aged 40 to 50 and 1.7 to 1.8 metres tall. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms programme, according to a confidential report by a UN panel of experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS — A Hong Kong businessman hit a $70 million court-awarded jackpot Tuesday when a jury agreed that he had helped the casino empire run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson get a gambling foothold in the People’s Republic of China. This is the second time in five years that jurors have awarded consultant Richard Suen a sizable sum in the bitter dispute. A jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. Adelson’s lawyers vowed Tuesday to appeal the latest verdict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The highest-ranking international military commander in Afghanistan has categorically denied any US or Nato responsibility for the deaths of at least 17 women and children after nearly seven hours of intensive airstrikes near their compound in eastern Afghanistan, in a new twist to a case that has greatly raised tensions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Scientists unveiled an affordable vaccine against a deadly diarrhoea-causing virus that kills some 100,000 children in India every year on Tuesday. Rotavirus, which causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea, is globally responsible for some 453,000 deaths annually and is particularly threatening in Africa and Asia, where access to urgent healthcare is often out of reach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Associated Press said on Monday the US government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period last year, describing the acts as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into news-gathering operations. AP Chief Executive Gary Pruitt, in a letter posted on the agency’s website, said the AP was informed last Friday that the Justice Department gathered records for more than 20 phone lines assigned to the news agency and its reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Richard Snow, on May 14th, 2013 Biographer Richard Snow on how a pioneer who made cars affordable and paid his workers well became such an unsettling person.
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By By ALISSA J. RUBIN, on May 14th, 2013 Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. said that neither the United States nor NATO was at fault in the deaths of civilians after airstrikes in April.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The legal aid service should remain in the hands of the government, according to the Legal Aid Services Council that has backtracked on a recommendation it made 15 years ago to set up an independent legal aid authority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Another British woman may face death in Indonesia for drugs
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the national narcotics agency said. “Because she smuggled drugs weighing more than five grams, she could face the death penalty,” agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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