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Singapore paper names Xi and Abe 'Asians of the Year'
AFP, Published on 11/12/2013
» Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were named "Asians of the Year" for 2013 on Wednesday by Singapore’s Straits Times, which urged them to reach out to each other to avert a conflict.
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Cellular breakthrough earns trio Nobel for medicine
AFP, Published on 07/10/2013
» A trio of American scientists, one of them German-born, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for pioneering work on the body's cell transport system, unlocking insights into diabetes, immune disorders and other diseases.
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Cellular breakthrough earns trio Nobel for medicine
AFP, Published on 08/10/2013
» A trio of American scientists won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for pioneering work on the body's cell transport system, unlocking insights into diabetes, immune disorders and other diseases.
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Cannes awards show global recognition for Asian cinema
AFP, Published on 27/05/2013
» A clutch of awards at the Cannes Film Festival has given global prominence to what insiders say is a bold era in Asian filmmaking, where China is emerging as a creative power.
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AFP freelancer scoops up prestigious US photo prize
AFP, Published on 25/04/2013
» An Agence France-Presse freelancer won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal Award on Wednesday for a stunning series of combat pictures from Syria.
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China bloggers vilify US executive's memoirs
AFP, Published on 13/02/2013
» A Chinese-born businesswoman's harrowing tales of gang-rape and murder in the Cultural Revolution years have come under fire from web vigilantes who accuse her of duping impressionable US readers.
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French, US scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
AFP, Published on 09/10/2012
» Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to revolutionary computers.
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Road cleared for self-driving cars in California
AFP, Published on 26/09/2012
» California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill clearing the way for self-driving cars to jockey with human-operated vehicles to test the technology on the state's roads.
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Booby traps defused as Batman shooting victims named
AFP, Published on 21/07/2012
» US police said Saturday they had defused the "major remaining threats" in the booby-trapped apartment of the gunman accused of the Batman theater massacre, which killed 12 in Colorado.
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US pastor burns Korans to urge Iran clergyman release
AFP, Published on 29/04/2012
» A controversial Florida pastor has burned copies of the Koran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest the imprisonment in Iran of a Christian clergyman Youcef Nadarkhani.
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