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-- 2017-12-20 04:51:45
China's giant pandas are a top tourist draw, a tool for soft diplomacy - and now, a source of tissue paper. The national panda reserve in Sichuan province has signed a deal with a paper company to re...
-- 2017-12-20 02:15:34
Police in rural Virginia, southeastern US state, have released disturbing details about a woman who they say was brutally mauled to death by her two dogs while taking them for a walk last week. Four...
BBC 2017-12-19 12:04:53
A Chinese artist who was arrested after posting videos about Beijing's controversial mass evictions has been released on bail, according to friends. Hua Yong had filmed a widely-shared farewell video...
-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00
An estimated 258 million people have left their birth countries and are now living in other nations — an increase of 49 per cent since 2000. A report on international migration released on Mond...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 12:00:00
Sixty-five journalists workers were killed around the world in 2017, according to the Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF). The RSF revealed the information in its annual report published on Tues...
-- 2017-12-19 08:20:44
Thousands of people crowded to a sports stadium in southern China to watch 10 people being sentenced to death – moments before they were taken away and executed. The extraordinar...
-- 2017-12-18 06:54:44
Egypt has reopened an ancient library recently that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the...
-- 2017-12-18 01:22:55
A baby panda has made a special appearance before Tokyo's governor, a group of local schoolchildren and the media one day ahead of its official public debut. The six-month-old female giant panda, Xi...
BBC 2017-12-17 12:00:00
An ancient skeleton of a woolly mammoth has sold for €548,000 ($640,000) at auction in the French city of Lyon. The skeleton, which exceeded its estimated value, is thought to be the largest of...
-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00
Smokers look less attractive than non smokers, a new study has found. This theory was put to on the test by researchers at Bristol University. A group of 500 people were asked to pick the...
BBC 2017-12-16 04:46:15
A Chinese man has been jailed for a year for stamping on a portrait of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, after being found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. The court in China's Inner Mongolia region was to...
BBC 2017-12-16 02:52:31
A Nigerian law graduate has been denied her call to the bar after insisting on wearing a hijab during the ceremony. Amasa Firdaus was refused entry into the hall at the law school at the University o...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-15 08:20:16
Two photos of Bangladeshi photographers have secured top ten places in Wikipedia’s ‘Wiki Loves Monuments’ competition. The two photos are taken from Baitul Mukarram National Mosque...
-- 2017-12-15 02:48:56
Archeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites for children dating back to the 18th Pharaonic Dynasty, some 3,500 years ago, in Upper Egypt's Aswan province, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquitie...
-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00
A British Columbia man made an unusual discovery while walking his dog along the coastline- the remains of a human foot, still inside of a shoe. It's the latest in more than a dozen such grim discove...
BBC 2017-12-13 03:04:48
A Japanese businessman diagnosed with terminal cancer has thrown a huge party to say thank you and goodbye. Satoru Anzaki invited about 1,000 guests including friends, former school mates, business p...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-12 12:00:00
A special prayer was offered Monday at ZH Sikder University of Science & Technology ground at Kartikpur in the district of Shariatpur on the occasion of the death anniversary of Mokfar Uddin Sikde...
BBC 2017-12-12 03:18:48
Plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of an Australian town have hit a hurdle, after local authorities found they were three years too late. The town of Charleville, in Queensland, had begun plann...
BBC 2017-12-11 12:00:00
Britain has a new tallest mountain. Mt Hope, which is sited in the part of the Antarctic claimed by the UK, was recently re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson, by...
-- 2017-12-11 12:00:00
Residents of Sher-e-Punjab Colony in Mumbai’s Andheri (East) had an unexpected visitor on Sunday. A female sub-adult leopard moved around, climbed trees – creating panic – and final...
-- 2017-12-11 12:00:00
2017 Prudential Relationship Index (PRI) reveals continued high levels of fulfilment in personal relationships across Asia. In order to gain a deeper understanding of personal relationships in the re...
-- 2017-12-10 09:18:27
More than 1.1 million people took the National Public Servant Exam in China Sunday, a leap from last year's 984,000, marking the second time the number has hit the one million mark. Over 28,000 posit...
-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00
Egypt minister on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country’s efforts to revive its a...
BBC 2017-12-09 02:38:51
A 29-year-old man has been charged after a snowman holding a rocket launcher was painted on the window of a republican support group's office in Londonderry. The image included the message: "Wishing...
-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00
Italian police have arrested a man who allegedly used a rat poison ingredient to kill members of his family because they were "impure". Mattia Del Zotto, 27, is accused of sprinkling the toxic chemic...
BBC 2017-12-07 11:18:19
A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about how his country entered World War Two has fetched $220,000 (£164,000) at an auction in New York. Also known as the Imperial Monologue, it chr...
BBC 2017-12-06 12:00:00
Chinese authorities have shut down an institute that was teaching women to be obedient and subordinate to men. The education bureau said the institute, which claimed it taught "traditional virtues",...
-- 2017-12-05 12:48:21
A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of the Chinese Culture University in Taipei’s mountains were...
BBC 2017-12-05 12:00:00
A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for $6.5m (£4.8m). Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds, won the precious stone - nicknamed the "peace...
-- 2017-12-04 11:32:00
A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital had pronounced the baby dead hours after his twin w...
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