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Boeing conducts final 787 battery test flight
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» US aerospace giant Boeing conducted a final 787 Dreamliner test flight Friday to assess the proposed battery fix that it hopes will get the grounded jetliner back in the skies.
Player with Nazi salute gets light penalty
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» AEK midfielder Giorgos Katidis was handed a relatively light penalty by the Greek football federation on Friday for his controversial Nazi salute after scoring a goal in a league match last month.
US drivers talk and text as much as ever
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» Americans are using cellphones and other gadgets behind the wheel as much as ever, despite widespread awareness of the risks involved, a federal government agency said Friday.
FIFA accept Confederations Cup failings
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» World governing body FIFA on Friday accepted that Brazil will not be entirely ready to host June's Confederations Cup - but warned it would expect tip-top organisation for next year's World Cup finals.
31 injured in Hong Kong ferry crash: police
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» Thirty-one people were injured in a collision between a passenger ferry and another vessel off Hong Kong island late Friday, police said, in the latest accident to hit the city's frenetic waters.
Endangered Vietnam elephant 'skinned, disemboweled'
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» The skinned and mutilated corpse of one of Vietnam's dwindling population of endangered wild elephants has been discovered in a forest in central Quang Binh province, state media said Friday.
Hong Kong girl tests negative for H7N9
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» A seven-year-old Hong Kong girl has tested negative for the H7N9 flu virus, officials said Friday, after she became the city's first suspected case of the disease that has killed six killed on mainland China.
Jimmy Carter 'deeply concerned' by Myanmar unrest
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» Former US president Jimmy Carter warned Friday that deadly religious violence in Myanmar was undermining the country's hard-won democratic reforms.
Blatter cools stance on racism sanctions
AFP, Published on 06/04/2013
» FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Friday eased his hardline stance on combating racial abuse and violence in stadiums.
Deputy governor killed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/04/2013
» Yala deputy governor Issara Thongthawat and an assistant governor were killed and a driver critically injured yesterday in a roadside bomb attack in Bannang Sata district.