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Adult dating website hack exposes personal data
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» WASHINGTON - A data breach at a website billed as "the world's largest sex and swinger" community may expose personal and sexual information on millions of users worldwide, a report said Friday.
UK's Cameron says 'confident' of securing EU reform deal
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» RIGA - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday he was confident of getting a deal on EU reforms which he can then put to a promised 2017 referendum on Britain's future in the bloc.
China raps Japan for PM's wife's war shrine visit
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» BEIJING - China on Friday renewed its call for Japan to "face up to" its 20th century history after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife visited a shrine Beijing sees as a symbol of Tokyo's warring past.
US pushes 'citizenship' for Rohingya
Published on 22/05/2015
» YANGON — A senior US diplomat on Friday urged Myanmar to extend "citizenship" to the oppressed Rohingya minority to address the ongoing migrant crisis.
Boogaloo, didgeridoo: Eurovision turkeys and triumphs
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» VIENNA - Love it, hate it or both, Europe's unashamedly over-the-top and enduringly popular annual Eurovision Song Contest, which is set to shake up staid Vienna on Saturday night, is nothing if not entertaining.
China declares victory in US surveillance overflight
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» BEIJING - China declared victory on Friday over an encounter with a US surveillance aircraft overflying the contested South China Sea, saying its military "drove away" the intruder with radio warnings.
Blast hits Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» RIYADH - A blast ripped through a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, authorities said, in what an activist said was a deadly suicide bombing.
Dogs domesticated over 27,000 years ago: study
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» WASHINGTON - Man's best friend may have been his companion for far longer than believed, scientists reported, publishing an analysis that dates domesticated dogs to over 27,000 years ago.
'China's Jerusalem' targets party members of faith
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» SHANGHAI - The city known as China's centre of Christianity, Wenzhou, has launched a crackdown on Communist Party members with religious beliefs, the local government said, following tighter regulation of church buildings.
Toshiba expands accounting probe to TV, chip, and computer units
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» TOKYO - Toshiba said Friday it was expanding an accounting probe to its television, memory chip, and computer divisions, after earlier warning the investigation would take a toll on its balance sheet.