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Man cashed his dead mum's social security cheques for 26 yrs in US
New York Times, Published on 03/12/2022
» A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly US$200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said.
Are trees talking underground?
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/11/2022
» Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta, feared things had gone too far when her son got home from eighth grade and told her he had learned that trees could talk to each other through underground networks.
'Fast Furniture' falls out of fashion
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Americans bought piles of furniture during the pandemic, with sales on desks, chairs and patio equipment jumping by more than US$4 billion (149.3 billion baht) from 2019 to 2021, according to a market data company. And a lot of it won't survive the decade.
Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.
The gloved one - or is it two
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022
» Alan Garcia starts each workday on a cracked plastic stool, hunched over a small vanity mirror, caking on makeup to lighten his skin.
Rich developer vs the local paper
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» Summers in Aspen are usually a breezy idyll of sunny hikes and ice-cream socials, a season when rich tourists fly in to attend jazz festivals and soak up mountain views from their US$1,000 (35,000 baht)-a-night hotel rooms.
Chinese leader Xi says Hong Kong 'reborn of fire' as visit to city begins
Published on 30/06/2022
» Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong had been "reborn of fire" as he arrived Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of the city's handover, in his first visit since the business hub's democracy movement was crushed.
Russian 'Spyville' returns to Polish hands
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/05/2022
» Soviet diplomats moved out of the hulking Warsaw housing compound more than 30 years ago. But some Russians stayed behind, sheltering until the early 2000s behind a fence topped with barbed wire from a city that, with the collapse of their empire, had suddenly become hostile territory -- and an important intelligence target.
Turkey clashes mar global May Day holiday
AFP, Published on 01/05/2022
» ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police clashed on Sunday with protesters and detained scores during a May Day rally, as tens of thousands marched across Europe in support of workers' rights.
Banks under fire: 'I'm Old, Not an Idiot'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/04/2022
» Because he has Parkinson's disease, and his shaking hands make it hard for him to push buttons, Carlos San Juan de Laorden, a retired Spanish doctor, finds it difficult to withdraw his money from the ATM.