Vietnam to free 18,200 prisoners in amnesty but no activistsVietnam said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country's second biggest-ever amnesty.
Instagram images no longer just squaresInstagram broke its square mold with an update that adds portrait and landscape formats to the image-sharing smartphone application.
Kazakh fans revel in historic Champions League successBars spilled joyous supporters into the streets of oil-rich Kazakhstan's capital Astana early after the Central Asian country's leading football club became its first to make the Champions League group stages.
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Australian PM dismisses Treasurer's republican pushMonarchist Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted that efforts to resurrect a push for Australia to become a republic were doomed despite his treasurer's new role as a bipartisan torchbearer for the movement.
27 August 2015
Trash talk trumps civility on 2016 campaign trailFive months before early primary voting, America's presidential race has devolved into mudslinging, with Republican Donald Trump leading the charge to the bottom by lambasting his many rivals.
Facebook adding virtual assistant to Messenger appFacebook began testing a Messenger app virtual assistant that the leading social network said goes beyond artificial intelligence programs already on the market.