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McKenzie sticks with familiar squad for Rugby Championship
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» SYDNEY - Ewen McKenzie Wednesday named a 32-man Australian squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship with few surprises, sticking with the group that is enjoying a seven-match winning streak.
Aussies hoping to rule the pool after Olympic flop
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» GLASGOW - Australia expect a glut of gold medals when the swimming action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow gets underway on Thursday and bury the misery of their 2012 Olympic campaign.
S. Korean police slammed over ferry tycoon's body
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» SEOUL - South Korea's police force was pilloried as doltish and incompetent Wednesday after announcing that a body found six weeks ago was that of a fugitive tycoon at the heart of a months-long manhunt.
MH17 has strong echoes of 1983 Korean tragedy
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» SEOUL - The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has stirred memories of a 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in what then US president Ronald Reagan called a mid-air "massacre".
IBM's Watson advises US soldiers on life after service
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» SAN FRANCISCO - IBM's Watson supercomputer is putting its real-world smarts to work helping US soldiers transition back to civilian lives.
China censors blank giant inflated toad
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» BEIJING - Chinese reports about a giant inflatable toad have been deleted from the Internet after social media users compared the puffed-up animal to a former Communist Party chief.
Malaysian political parties close ranks, denounce MH17 attack
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's bitterly divided political forces put aside their differences on Wednesday to denounce the attack on flight MH17 as a heinous international crime and call jointly for swift justice for those responsible.
Vietnam woman said world's oldest
dpa, Published on 23/07/2014
» HANOI — A 121-year-old Vietnamese woman has been announced as the oldest living person, local officials said Wednesday.
Air disasters imperil Malaysian tourism
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» An unprecedented second major aviation disaster in four months could further associate Malaysia with calamity in the eyes of travellers, putting the tropical destination's vital tourism sector at risk, observers warn.
China arrests in 'expired meat' scandal
AFP, Published on 23/07/2014
» SHANGHAI - Chinese police on Wednesday detained five people from a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, officers said, in a case involving expired meat sold to fast food giants including McDonald's and KFC.