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US newspaper 'Watergate' editor dies
AFP, Published on 22/10/2014
» WASHINGTON - Legendary former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who oversaw reporting on the Watergate scandal that brought down US president Richard Nixon, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Total CEO killed in plane crash
AFP, Published on 21/10/2014
» MOSCOW - Russian and French experts were investigating Tuesday a plane crash at a Moscow airport which killed the CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, whose private jet struck a snowplough on takeoff.
Total chief executive De Margerie killed in Moscow plane crash
AFP, Published on 21/10/2014
» MOSCOW - The CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, died in a plane crash at a Moscow airport late Monday when the private jet he was using struck a snowplough on takeoff.
Total chief executive De Margerie killed in Moscow plane crash
AFP, Published on 21/10/2014
» The CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, died in a plane crash at a Moscow airport late Monday when the private jet he was using struck a snowplough on takeoff.
Yeti, Big Foot debunked: DNA reveals the bear facts
AFP, Published on 02/07/2014
» For those who believe in the yeti, the news can only be described as, well, abominable.
Grandson of late Chinese leader Deng promoted, state media reports
AFP, Published on 24/06/2014
» The grandson of China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has been given his first low-level leadership post in the area where his grandfather made history, state media said on Tuesday.
Behind the mask of an anti-World Cup 'Black Bloc'
AFP, Published on 06/06/2014
» Their faces covered in black masks, they seized Brazil's attention last year in scenes of violence that invaded TV screens during what was supposed to be a festive football tournament.
World's oldest woman turns 116 in Japan
AFP, Published on 06/03/2014
» The world's oldest woman was celebrating her 116th birthday on Wednesday in a Japanese nursing home with a cake and candles.
New Caledonia stocks up on guns ahead of independence vote
AFP, Published on 25/02/2014
» In the green hills of Grand Terre, New Caledonia's main island, duck farmer Christophe Puesh is dodging the large puddles which have formed after the latest tropical downpour.
Chinese woman gave birth to twins at 60: report
AFP, Published on 24/12/2013
» A Chinese woman had twin girls at the age of 60 following IVF treatment after her only child died, making her possibly the oldest person in the country to give birth, state media reported Tuesday.