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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner’s inquiry into their son’s death on Tuesday, saying they had “lost faith” in the proceedings. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guangzhou newly-wed Sara had been hoping for a private holiday when she landed at a Maldives luxury resort with her husband in March. But when six other Chinese “couples”- among them a elderly woman and her adult son – showed up at a sunset dinner, Sara was outraged. The dinner was advertised by the hotel as exclusively for newly-weds. “How could they have been so shameless just for a free meal?” the woman who was identified only as Sara later vented on her microblog. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities brought criminal charges against three New York University researchers on Monday, alleging they conspired to take bribes from Chinese medical and research outfits for details about NYU research into magnetic resonance imaging technology. A criminal complaint filed in the US District Court in Manhattan charged Yudong Zhu, 44; Xing Yang, 31; and Ye Li, 31, with commercial bribery conspiracy in connection with NYU research financed by the US government. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By PETER LATTMAN, on May 21st, 2013 SAC Capital Advisors is bracing for another round of withdrawal requests as fears grow that insider trading investigations could further damage Steven A. Cohen and his firm.
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By By JENNIFER PRESTON, on May 20th, 2013 A tornado touched down south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, causing widespread destruction in the suburb of Moore after a severe weather outbreak that spawned more than two dozen tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa over the weekend.
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By By NICOLE PERLROTH, on May 20th, 2013 A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before.
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By By JONATHAN WEISMAN, on May 20th, 2013 The Senate Finance Committee forwarded a six-page letter to Steven Miller, the acting I.R.S. commissioner who is resigning, with 41 pointed questions seeking information about who in the Obama administration knew what.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon season weeks away. Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – displaced by sectarian unrest last year that claimed about 200 lives and saw whole villages razed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Retired cricket great Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a poll re-run in an upmarket constituency of Karachi, unofficial results showed. The vote came a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and SUSANNE CRAIG, on May 20th, 2013 If shareholders separate the jobs of chairman and chief executive — positions that Jamie Dimon has held since 2008 — it would signal a shift in the balance of power in corporate America.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in part of Pakistan’s restive tribal regions on Monday, killing a policeman who was providing security, officials said. The attackers opened fire as the team was going to administer polio drops in Kalam town in Bajaur district, one of the seven tribal areas along the Afghan border, local administration official Suhail Ahmed Khan said. “One tribal police official, who had been escorting the team, died in the attack,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 
Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
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A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015.
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A man and a woman are found dead at the scene of a suspected gas explosion at a Nottinghamshire house.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Legislators on Monday cast doubts on the securities regulator’s decision to allow the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange to surrender its licence, instead of immediately suspending it, after it emerged that the firm had insufficient capital. The HKMEx, a commodity trader, chaired by Executive Councillor Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, last week handed back its trading licence and suspended operations after it became clear it could no longer meet the requirement that it have sufficient cash to cover nine months of operations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea fired another short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a series of missile drills that have been condemned by South Korea and UN chief Ban Ki-moon. The latest firing – the fifth in three days – was confirmed by a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said it was unclear if the North was testing guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers. “We are still checking on the precise nature of these tests,” the spokesman said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi officials: Twin car bombings in southern city of Basra kill at least 10 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Maverick lawmaker Wong Yuk-man announced he was quitting People Power, the radical party he founded in 2011, with immediate effect. Wong sent three e-mails on Monday morning to fellow lawmaker and party member Albert Chan Wai-yip informing him of his decision to resign from the party, its standing committee and the Anti-CY Alliance formed by its members. Wong did not explain his decision in the e-mails. Chan, a close ally of Wong for many years, said he was “totally astonished” as Wong had not informed him of the decision in advance. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A public outcry against missing donations by the Red Cross Society of China has morphed into subdued scepticism after the Ministry of Civil Affairs reviewed figures at the weekend that indicated considerable amount of funds had disappeared. On Friday, the ministry, which is charged with supervising charity organisations, had published how much charities nationwide had collected for rescue and reconstruction efforts in Sichuan province after the April 20 earthquake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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US scientist Shane Todd’s family walks out of Singapore inquest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner’s inquiry into their son’s death on Tuesday, saying they had “lost faith” in the proceedings. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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