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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Weather service confirms tornado that hit Oklahoma was a top-of-the-scale EF-5. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BOSTON (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area picked to host 50th Super Bowl in 2016. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV: ex-President Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad aide rejected from presidential ballot. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ma Qiang is angry that mainland media have dubbed his Mars dream a hoax. The 39-year old former policeman from Dujiangyan, Sichuan, signed up for the Mars One project in the Netherlands last month, becoming one of the first volunteers to be screened for a journey of no return scheduled in a decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chinese look to Mars mission to fulfil dreams – and to escape
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city’s annual budget was passed in the Legislative Council last night by a safe margin after a month-long filibuster. The long-awaited legislative approval ends the prospect of the government running out of cash to operate. Since the financial year started in April, it has been functioning on an interim fund of HK$75.5 billion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Faced with external and internal problems, Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou cancelled a long-planned event on Monday, marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The personal data of more than 2,800 people who voted online for the sports stars of the year last year were leaked by hackers, police revealed last night. The Commercial Crime Bureau found information on the voters as well as an undisclosed number of the sports star nominees on a website that they did not name. Officers believe the information was obtained by hacking the website of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, the host of the awards, a police spokesman said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Sports stars and fans hit by foul play in awards vote
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Senior marine staff would not be questioned as part of the internal investigation into the Lamma ferry tragedy unless new information came to light, the city’s transport chief insisted yesterday. His remarks came in the face of criticism about the limitations of the Marine Department investigating itself. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Flying high above Europe’s economic crisis, a lightning-fast pigeon named Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for €310,000 (HK$3.1 million) to a Chinese businessman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s low birth rate has fallen further in the past five years, with the number of one-child families outpacing two-children households for the first time, a survey shows. Of 1,518 married or cohabitating women aged 15 to 49 surveyed by the Family Planning Association in its latest five-yearly study, 37.5 per cent had one child and 32 per cent had two children. The average number of children per household reached a record low of 1.12 last year, compared with 1.49 in 2007 and 1.6 in 2002. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading For the first time, one-child families are in the majority, survey shows
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guatemala’s top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings. The ruling on Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first guilty verdict for genocide against a former Latin American leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Guatemala court orders dictator to restand late part of trial
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had one of the darkest days in his trouble-plagued administration yesterday when he lost two of his most important aides. Executive councillor and Urban Renewal Authority chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen’s departure on leave after the Mercantile Exchange, which he chairs, came under police investigation, was seen as the heaviest blow to date. It coincided with news of the resignation of information co-ordinator June Teng Wai-kwan, Leung’s top media official, due to eye problems. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TAMPA, Florida (AP) — JPMorgan shareholders defeat campaign to split CEO and chairman role; Dimon prevails. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Oscar Pistorius’ older brother cried tears of relief on Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the death of a woman in a road accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PARIS (AP) — Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral evacuated after suicide inside the famed church. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel military chief warns Syria against further attacks, says Assad will ‘bear consequences’ <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan’s top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been omitted from the final tally. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia’s federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee posing behind Vladimir Putin’s desk in the Kremlin, an official said on Tuesday. Pictures of the man, named Alexei Ustimchuk, sitting diminutively behind the giant desk in Putin’s Kremlin office, spread through the internet as people ridiculed the lack of security that permitted a simple employee such access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Russian officer ‘posed at Putin’s desk to impress girls’
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Weather service confirms tornado that hit Oklahoma was a top-of-the-scale EF-5
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