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Football seeks answers over dementia link to heading
AFP, Published on 11/10/2018
» GLASGOW - Does heading a football give you dementia?
Fan Bingbing: Violates tax law, now grammar rules
Published on 10/10/2018
» Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing, already under fire for tax evasion, is now being used as a textbook example on how not to write an apology letter.
Cambodia's Hun Sen defiant despite EU trade threat
Reuters, Published on 08/10/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has taken a defiant stance following a European Union announcement last week that it would ramp up trade pressure on Cambodia over human rights concerns.
Madrassas a place of prayer and peace for Rohingya kids
AFP, Published on 07/10/2018
» COX'S BAZAR (BANGLADESH) - Inside a stifling bamboo shanty, eight-year-old Saleema Khanam throws a bright yellow shawl over her head and steps out into the enormous Bangladesh refugee camp tightly clutching her treasured Koran.
Bangladesh kids turn the tide on climate change aboard floating schools
AFP, Published on 04/10/2018
» CHALAN BEEL (BANGLADESH) - Mosammat Rekha's older cousins grew up unable to read and write, their tiny village so frequently cut off from the nearest school by floods that would rise suddenly in their remote corner of disaster-prone Bangladesh.
Helicopter jailbreak gangster arrested in France
AFP, Published on 03/10/2018
» PARIS: A gangster who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak has been arrested in northern France after three months on the run, sources close to the inquiry said early Wednesday.
After days of restraint, Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser
AFP, Published on 03/10/2018
» SOUTHAVEN (UNITED STATES) - Donald Trump on Tuesday openly mocked the university professor who has accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, joking about her inability to remember details surrounding the night of the alleged attack.
JUUL: e-cigarette dominates the market -- and fears of parents
AFP, Published on 03/10/2018
» WASHINGTON - In just three years, electronic cigarette maker JUUL has come to dominate the American market with its vaping devices that look like thumb drives, a business success that has brought a public health dilemma for authorities in the US, and elsewhere.
Dozens found dead in Indonesia church; quake-tsunami toll tops 1200
AFP, Published on 02/10/2018
» PALU, Indonesia: The bodies of dozens of students have been pulled from their landslide-swamped church in Sulawesi, officials said Tuesday, as an international effort to help nearly 200,000 Indonesia quake-tsunami victims ground into gear.
Former classmate: Trump court nominee lied about his drinking
AFP, Published on 02/10/2018
» WASHINGTON: A one-time classmate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee said Monday that Brett Kavanaugh was a habitual heavy drinker, challenging the judge's Senate testimony to the contrary.