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Golden Kit Kats to go on sale in Japan
AFP, Published on 19/11/2015
» TOKYO - For chocolate lovers with cash to burn, a gold-coated Kit Kat bar will hit stores in Japan later this month, but at an eye-watering 2,016 yen ($16) a finger it will only be available for the lucky few.
Duty-free loss piles woes on troubled Lotte Group
AFP, Published on 18/11/2015
» SEOUL - Troubled South Korean retail giant Lotte, already struggling with a prolonged founder-family feud, has seen its business woes deepen with the loss of the state licence for one of its biggest duty-free shops ahead of a key IPO.
Terror casts shadow over City of Light
AFP, Published on 15/11/2015
» PARIS - The Eiffel Tower was closed, the Champs-Elysees was lifeless and museums, markets and schools were shuttered on Saturday as Paris reeled after the bloodiest terror attack in French history.
All change for India's stylish dressers
Business, AFP, Published on 09/11/2015
» Rifling through sweaters in India's first Gap store in a glitzy New Delhi mall, 21-year-old Ridhi Goel says her grandmother doesn't mind how she dresses as long as it's not too revealing.
Lotte chief wins key battle in family feud
AFP, Published on 17/08/2015
» SEOUL - The chairman of South Korea's Lotte Group secured crucial shareholder support Monday in his bitter struggle against his father and elder brother for control of the family-run retail giant.
Activists still fighting, a year after Ferguson unrest
AFP, Published on 08/08/2015
» FERGUSON (UNITED STATES) - At another time, the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson a year ago might have gone virtually unnoticed.
EU, US urge Turkey restraint amid PKK onslaught
AFP, Published on 05/08/2015
» ISTANBUL - Europe and the United States on Tuesday urged Turkey to show a "proportionate response" in the face of daily attacks by Kurdish militants amid growing concern over the scale of Ankara's air campaign against the rebels.
Hard economic times hit Puerto Rico
AFP, Published on 11/07/2015
» SAN JUAN - The sun is bright and the beaches are great but there's trouble in paradise: Puerto Rico is drowning in debt and its people are feeling the sting of economic crisis.
Life and opportunity in the world's biggest refugee camp
AFP, Published on 13/05/2015
» DADAAB (KENYA) - Soon after dawn Bashir Bilal sat outside on his usual plastic jerry can surrounded by young girls and boys chanting Koranic verses.
Baltimore rioting quietens down after curfew
AFP, Published on 29/04/2015
» BALTIMORE - Riot police in the US city of Baltimore enforced a curfew into the early hours of Wednesday and called it a success, emptying streets scarred by a spasm of rioting and looting.