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Guns N' Roses to reunite for Coachella festival: report
AFP, Published on 31/12/2015
» LOS ANGELES - Guns N' Roses, who became one of the top-selling bands in history despite a brief heyday, will reunite for the Coachella festival in 2016, music magazine Billboard reported.
Dying art? A recipe to save Hong Kong's handmade dim sum
AFP, Published on 25/12/2015
» HONG KONG - For the past 60 years, Chui Hoi has risen in the early hours of the morning to prepare bite-size steamed morsels for his small but popular dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong.
Pilgrims celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem against backdrop of violence
AFP, Published on 24/12/2015
» BETHLEHEM (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Pilgrims celebrated Christmas in the town where tradition says Jesus was born Thursday but festivities were subdued against a backdrop of violence in the Holy Land and a growing jihadist threat across the Middle East.
In Jerusalem attack, 2 Israelis, 2 Palestinian stabbers dead
AFP, Published on 24/12/2015
» JERUSALEM - A Jerusalem knife attack on Wednesday ended with an Israeli stabbed to death, and another killed, seemingly by a stray police bullet, as officers shot dead the Palestinian assailants.
Rescued migrant scores big win in Spain's Christmas lottery
AFP, Published on 24/12/2015
» MADRID - An unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coastguard after making a risky journey from Morocco eight years ago on a packed wooden boat won 400,000 euros ($437,000) in Spain's annual Christmas lottery, local media reported Wednesday.
Philippines army kills 26, overruns Abu Sayyaf camp
AFP, Published on 21/12/2015
» ZAMBOANGA - A week-long assault by Philippine troops ended with the capture of a Muslim extremist camp and the deaths of 26 militants and three soldiers, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
India's Sanskrit speakers seek to revive 'dead' language
AFP, Published on 17/12/2015
» NEW DELHI - In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India's ancient Sanskrit language to the country's millions.
N.Korea wins back its pride in 'kimchi war' with south
AFP, Published on 24/11/2015
» PARIS - North Korea scored a major victory in the kimchi wars Monday when the UN all but elevated its pickled vegetables to the same lofty status as its southern neighbour's spicy capitalist cabbage.
Afghanistan's Dostum unites friends, foes in anti-Taliban fight
AFP, Published on 21/11/2015
» MAIMANA (AFGHANISTAN) - As the Taliban expand into his old stomping grounds in northern Afghanistan, former warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum -- who boasts of having a PhD in killing militants -- is galvanising legions of devout followers and erstwhile foes for battle.
Japanese town's controversial dolphin hunt begins
AFP, Published on 03/09/2015
» TOKYO - A small Japanese town began its controversial dolphin hunt on Thursday after bad weather delayed the start, according to a local fisheries official, while a separate whaling hunt was due to start at the weekend.