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Elizabeth II: Queen of the world
AFP, Published on 09/09/2022
» LONDON - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was not just Queen Elizabeth II. She was simply The Queen.
Ex-Australian prime minister Bob Hawke dies at age 89
Published on 16/05/2019
» CANBERRA: Bob Hawke, Australia's longest-serving Labor Party prime minister, whose charisma and powers of persuasion earned him near-folk hero status among many Australians, died on Thursday, his wife said. He was 89.
Trump's UN speech drives home nationalist agenda
News, Published on 21/09/2017
» Chalk one up for the nationalists.
US billionaire echoes Rhodes with China scholarship
AFP, Published on 14/09/2016
» BEIJING - A US billionaire's giant gift to one of China's top universities for a programme echoing Oxford's Rhodes Scholarships comes as the country seeks to boost its schools' prestige while tightening ideological control in classrooms.
Turnbull defeats Abbott to become new Australian PM
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/09/2015
» CANBERRA — Former Cabinet Minister Malcolm Turnbull will become Australia’s sixth prime minister in eight years after defeating Tony Abbott in a ballot of Liberal Party lawmakers on Monday.
Britain makes Angelina Jolie an honorary dame
AFP, Published on 14/06/2014
» Angelina Jolie has been made an honorary dame in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday honours list released Friday, as Britain paid tribute to the Hollywood star for her efforts to combat warzone rape.
D-Day 70th anniversary: Live Report
AFP, Published on 06/06/2014
» 16:16 GMT - 'Brave men' - US Secretary of State John Kerry tweets: "In awe of the brave men who saved the world 70 yrs ago/a gift to be in their presence."
US tycoon pledges $300 mn to China university
AFP, Published on 21/04/2013
» A US tycoon on Sunday pledged to donate $300 million to an elite Chinese university to fund a scholarship program that will recruit students from countries around the world to study in China.
In the deep end
Life, Published on 15/10/2012
» Four hundred years ago a lone junk ship making its way back from Thailand to China didn't get very far before striking trouble right in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand. It went down in 60m of water with all hands, and a cargo of extremely valuable Sawankhalok pottery from the Ayutthaya era.
Cave man shares his wisdom
Life, Published on 09/07/2012
» Every morning at first light, Ajarn Sumano Bhikkhu leaves Tum Song Dtah, otherwise known as the Double-Eyed Cave Retreat, at Pak Chong in Thailand's Khao Yai Mountains. He walks nearly 5km from the cave he calls home to collect alms at a nearby village. There's nothing unusual in this. Monks have been performing this ritual for hundreds of years.