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NY homeless angry at China tycoon 'publicity stunt'
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
A three-course lunch hosted by an eccentric Chinese millionaire for 250 homeless New Yorkers in a posh restaurant degenerated into fury Wednesday when guests we...
Malaysia gets new transport minister amid MH370 crisis
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysia's premier on Wednesday appointed a new transport minister to replace Hishammuddin Hussein, who took the lead during the search for missing flight MH370...
MH370 hunt to shift south
Jun 20, 2014 (AFP)
The drawn-out search for missing Malaysian Flight MH370 will revert to an area south of the previously suspected crash site following new analysis of the plane'...
Japan satellites to monitor Fukushima, Chernobyl
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
Two Japanese satellites will be launched from Russia late Thursday to monitor environmental damage near the crippled nuclear plants in Fukushima and Chernobyl, ...
Godzilla: Still relevant and raging after 60 years in Japan
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
While a digitalised Hollywood reboot stomps its way to box office success around the world, the original Godzilla -- a man in a rubber suit -- has hit screens i...
Fukushima struggling to build ice wall to plug leak
Jun 17, 2014 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant said Tuesday it was having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken ...
100 days after MH370, Malaysia vows to keep searching
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysia's government pledged on Monday that it "will not rest" until missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is found, as it marked the 100th day since the plan...
With China as guest, G77 summit seeks new development pledges
Jun 14, 2014 (AFP)
Leaders of developing nations plus China meet here Saturday to draft a global anti-poverty agenda at a summit that also showcases Latin America's burgeoning rel...
Ten migrants die in shipwreck off Libya: Italian navy
Jun 14, 2014 (AFP)
Italian sailors have recovered 10 bodies of migrants after a rubber dinghy sank off the Libyan coast, Italy's navy said Saturday. Thirty-nine migrants were resc...
MH370 China relatives meet wall of silence from airline
Jun 11, 2014 (AFP)
Frustrated Chinese relatives of passengers onboard missing Flight MH370 Wednesday visited the offices of Malaysia Airlines in Beijing to confront officials afte...
MH370 families raise funds to find 'whistleblower'
Jun 08, 2014 (AFP)
Several families of those aboard Flight MH370 on Sunday launched a drive to raise $5 million to reward any insider who comes forward and resolves the mystery of...
The 'Sherlock Holmes' of Himalayan mountaineering
Jun 04, 2014 (AFP)
When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest last April, reporters made a beeline for 90-year-old Elizabeth Hawley, the woman Edmund Hillary once called "the Sherl...
Students suffer in Philippine typhoon zone as schools open
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of students in the central Philippines began the school year on Monday in steamy tents and other makeshift classrooms, seven months after Supe...
Japan starts building underground ice wall at Fukushima
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
Japan on Monday started work on an underground ice wall at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, freezing the soil under broken reactors to slow the build-up of...
Italy navy picks up 3,000 boat migrants in 24 hours
May 31, 2014 (AFP)
Italy's navy said Saturday it has picked up nearly 3,000 migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean by boat in the last 24 hours. The lat...
MH370 search on right track: Australian transport chief
May 30, 2014 (AFP)
The head of Australia's transport safety bureau has defended the fruitless hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, saying he is confident that search t...
Australia rules out swathe of ocean as MH370 crash zone
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
Australia Thursday ruled out a large swathe of Indian Ocean as Malaysian Flight MH370's final resting place, compounding the frustration of passengers' relative...
Risk is much more than a game
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
Wildfires and flooding affect many more people in the USA than earthquakes and landslide and yet the dread, the perceived risk, of the latter two is much greate...
Outcry as French police demolish Calais migrant camps
May 28, 2014 (AFP)
French police on Wednesday expelled around 550 people from makeshift camps in the northern port of Calais after a scabies outbreak, drawing criticism from right...
US finds missing British yacht in Atlantic, but no crew
May 24, 2014 (AFP)
A US Navy warship helicopter spotted a missing yacht in the Atlantic but found no trace of its four-man British crew now feared dead, officials said Friday. The...
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