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Everybody spies on everybody: ex-intel officers Europeans may express outrage over revelations of US spying but they know perfectly well how the espionage "game" is played -- everybody spies on everybody.

03 July 2013

Brief encounter for porn film at China railway station A maintenance worker surprised passers-by near a Chinese railway station when he started watching a banned porn film, not realising his computer was connected to a giant screen

02 July 2013

Nearly 21,000 species at risk of extinction: conservationists A freshwater shrimp, an island-dwelling lizard and a pupfish from Arizona have been declared extinct, while nearly 21,000 species are at risk of dying out.

02 July 2013

World bets on British royal baby name, sex and everything else Will it be a girl called Alexandra, or a boy called Wayne? No one outside Buckingham Palace knows but it has not stopped punters from around the world betting on Britain's royal baby.

02 July 2013

Halving world hunger by 2015 'within reach': UN Despite economic crises and dwindling aid, the UN said Monday huge progress had been made towards meeting the so-called Millennium Development Goals.

01 July 2013

Naomi Campbell comes undone at Paris fashion week Naomi Campbell drew cheers on the catwalk at Paris fashion week when the 43-year-old supermodel opened the first haute couture show of the season for Versace.

01 July 2013

Scientists demand New Zealand save 'sea hobbit' Marine scientists have urged New Zealand to immediately ban fishing in waters inhabited by the world's rarest dolphin, saying that losing even one of the creatures will threaten the species' existence.

01 July 2013

Sri Lanka man dies of heart attack after shocking electric bill A Sri Lankan man suffered a fatal heart attack after being presented with a shocking electricity bill.

30 June 2013

Mexico City trash-for-food market helps capital clean up On a recent rainy Sunday morning in a Mexico City neighborhood, people lined up under their umbrellas with bags of empty milk cartons, plastic bottles and cardboard at their feet.

29 June 2013

TENGRI LIFE

TENGRI TRAVEL

Nazarbayev calls to make Kazakhstan green Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a field meeting on development of the Green Belt around Astana.

28 June 2013

Women's prayer tests ultra-Orthodox hold on Western Wall The singing rises through the early-morning cool which still covers the esplanade in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site at which Jews can pray.

28 June 2013

More than 2mn Tibetans rehoused, relocated: rights group More than two million Tibetans in China have been forced to change homes or relocate in a government-sponsored programme that is damaging their traditional culture and rural lifestyle.

28 June 2013

Gene clues show which children will grow out of asthma A gene scorecard may one day help predict which youngsters are likely to grow out of childhood asthma and which will have the disease in adulthood.

28 June 2013

Britain pushes ahead with 'three-parent' fertility technique The British government on Thursday said it would pursue a radical fertility technique that uses DNA from three parents to create an embryo.

28 June 2013

Lessons at home and homework at school in US When April Burton explains the intricacies of French grammar to her American classroom, the students are at home, in front of their computer or smartphone.

28 June 2013

Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea Mass mortality of seagulls has been registered at Shalyga island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.

27 June 2013

Men dare to bare at Paris fashion Belgian designer Raf Simons on Wednesday got Paris fashion week off to an unconventional start, bussing hundreds of people out to the distinctly less than fashionable Paris suburb of Le Bourget.

27 June 2013

Winfrey heads Forbes celeb 'power' list Television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful celebrity in the world on Wednesday as Forbes.com released its annual list of the top movers and shakers in the entertainment industry.

27 June 2013

Australia takes Japan to top UN court to stop whaling Australia takes its legal battle to stop Japanese whaling in the Antarctic before the UN's highest court on Wednesday, in an emotionally-charged case activists say is make-or-break for the giant marine mammals' future.

26 June 2013