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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yang Zhengrong smiled at the mention of her son, who will turn three in August. “He is such a joy to the family,” the 45-year-old restaurant owner in Mianzhu’s Jiulong township said. “We will be in our 60s or probably gone when he is only a teenager and he won’t be able to do much for us, but just to think of all the joy he brings the family makes me so grateful.” Yang’s 18-year-old daughter died with more than 300 fellow pupils when the Dongqi Middle School in Mianzhu collapsed in the magnitude 8 earthquake that hit Sichuan five years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prosecutors call Beate Zschaepe Germany’s most dangerous neo-Nazi and from on Monday she will sit in the dock in the country’s biggest far-right murder trial of the post-war period. But as the proceedings get underway against Zschaepe and four alleged accomplices in the southern city of Munich, the unassuming bespectacled brunette remains an enigma behind a wall of silence. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children. The case has emerged in a previously secret court judgment, reported yesterday for the first time, which raises questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in human eggs and sperm. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on April 29th, 2013 A British woman has been issued a five year prison sentence for forcing her 14-year old daughter to get pregnant through artificial insemination.
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A prosecutor’s office says a French judge has placed under investigation the photographer and publishing company behind unauthorised topless photos of Prince William’s wife, Kate, that appeared in Closer magazine in France last September. Caroline Chassain, spokeswoman for the Nanterre prosecutor, said on Thursday that a photographer, the newspaper La Provence – the photographer’s employer – and Mondadori Magazines France were placed under investigation this month over possible criminal exploitation of images. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Tom Sykes, on April 25th, 2013 Kate wore an Emilia Wickstead maternity dress for an engagement last night
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAY TWO: In SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui’s compelling account of the Sichuan earthquake, she tells of the day after the tremors struck and how shaken and injured villagers began a battle for survival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A quick test for a congenital mental condition is available in Hong Kong for the first time, Chinese University announced yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guangdong woman Zhang Qiulan, 39, yesterday became the first mainland mother jailed for giving birth in Hong Kong through a sham marriage after the “zero-birth quota” policy came into effect in January. The policy barred mainland women without Hong Kong husbands from giving birth in the city. The fake marriage with local Cheung Chun-hung, 36, was arranged by Zhang’s former father-in-law Lam Yiu-chee, 71. Both Cheung and Lam were also each sentenced to one year in jail. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Liaoning authorities have lashed back at a news report alleging torture at a women’s labour camp, calling the piece phony and containing “malicious attack rhetoric” characteristic of the outlawed Falun Gong group. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Patients and volunteers braved the wind and drizzle to take part in a charity walk on The Peak yesterday to raise funds for HIV and Aids sufferers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In her first seven months as UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a Congolese district where rebels raped babies, and Somalia where a woman was paid US$150 restitution for the rape of her four-year-old daughter. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> To those on the outside, the couple seemed content, spending time together on a quiet block in Brooklyn, in New York, working at solid city-paid jobs and delighting in their infant son. Almost certainly there was nothing so outwardly amiss between them that it could have foretold the crime that unfolded inside the woman’s apartment in the Flatlands neighbourhood. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Most victims of sexual violence in conflict zones are children who are suffering rape and abuse at an appalling rate, said campaigners who described the attacks as the “hidden horrors of war”. In the worst-affected countries, such as Liberia and Sierra Leone, children made up more than 70 per cent of victims, said a report by charity Save the Children published on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 
The inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar resumes in Galway later
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Argentine police and soldiers searched house to house, in creeks and culverts and even in trees for bodies on Thursday after floods killed at least 57 people in the province and city of Buenos Aires. As torrential rains stopped and the waters receded, the crisis shifted to guaranteeing public health and safety in this provincial capital of nearly 1 million people. Safe drinking water was in short supply, and more than a quarter-million people were without power, although authorities said most would get their lights back on overnight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Zhejiang disciplinary inspection commission has launched an investigation into a Wenzhou official accused of keeping a mistress and paying her a 200,000 yuan break-up fee, the Beijing Times reported on Tuesday. The investigation was prompted when a woman, surnamed Zhang, told the newspaper she had a five-month affair with Wu Kaifeng, party secretary-general of Wenzhou, and had an abortion for him. Wu denied Zhang’s accusations when contacted by the newspaper on Saturday. “This is nonsense,” he said, but admitted he had reported the situation to the Party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 
UK researchers have found that a dangerous infection which is becoming more common in people with cystic fibrosis can spread between patients.
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Cyclone Mahasen triggers mass evacuations in Bangladesh, Myanmar
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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