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A set of emoticons satirising Thailand's royal family have been removed by the messaging application Line.

• 07 апреля 2016, 14:21

Wanting to stay British, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands have accused Spain and Argentina of 'bullying'.

• 06 апреля 2016, 20:22

The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled over 35 years: the World Health Organization

• 06 апреля 2016, 20:08

Japan's Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu accused Denis Ten of Kazakhstan of deliberately colliding with him during practice.

• 31 марта 2016, 15:58

Language guidelines that advise students to describe British explorer James Cook's arrival in Sydney as an "invasion" rather than a "settlement" were defended by an Australian university.

• 30 марта 2016, 15:55

South Korea's Samsung announced the launch of its mobile payment service in China, a market its arch-rival Apple entered six weeks ago.

• 29 марта 2016, 14:46

Dozens of space scientists are desperately scouring the skies after losing track of a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Japanese satellite that was sent to study black holes.

• 28 марта 2016, 15:32

A Google-developed computer programme won the machine vs human challenge against South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol.

• 15 марта 2016, 17:39

Residents in low-lying areas of the Marshall Islands are braced for flooding underscoring the islands' vulnerability to climate change.

• 11 марта 2016, 15:21

New Zealand has passed legislation banning 'zero hour' contractsto end the use of deals criticised as exploitative.

• 11 марта 2016, 13:48

Researchers found five more columns under the sea to add up to the limestone stacks off the south coast of Australia known as the Twelve Apostles.

• 10 марта 2016, 15:09

China's Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao has become the world's most valuable football club.

• 09 марта 2016, 19:00

The path out of oblivion for Przewalski's horse lies in getting on a plane to China, Mongolia and, most recently, the Russian steppes.

• 09 марта 2016, 18:30

Conservation group Greenpeace warned that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning to be seen.

• 04 марта 2016, 15:26

China will raise its defence spending by seven to eight percent this year.

• 04 марта 2016, 15:03

New United Nations sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea leave plenty of room for China to continue business as usual.

• 03 марта 2016, 17:31

Chinese court sentenced a Christian pastor to 14 years in jail for embezzlement, after he opposed forced removal of crosses from churches.

• 29 февраля 2016, 15:39

French President Francois Hollande acknowledged that three decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia had had "an impact" on health.

• 23 февраля 2016, 14:53

China deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea, insisting it had a right to build "self-defence".

• 17 февраля 2016, 17:17

Olympic medallist and defending champion Denis Ten withdrew due to injury from the Four Continents figure skating championships in Taipei.

• 17 февраля 2016, 16:07