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Philippine typhoon survivors turn cave-dwellers Victims who survived the Philippines' super typhoon by huddling in a cave as a tsunami-like wave obliterated their community have now made it their home -- reduced to Stone Age conditions with nowhere else to go.
18 November 2013
Andrej Babis, leader of the ANO movement. ©Reuters/David W Cerny Czech party leader haunted by ghosts of communist past Unwelcome spectres are coming back to haunt Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, who emerged as a power broker in recent elections but is facing allegations he collaborated with the communist-era secret police.
16 November 2013
©Reuters/Carlos Barria China one-child law change small but crucial: experts Beijing's relaxation of its hugely controversial one-child policy is an attention-grabbing first step, but it will have to usher in greater changes if China is to tackle its looming demographic timebomb, experts say.
16 November 2013
China cake millionaire at home in his six castles As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
16 November 2013
©Reuters/ Yuya Shino CIA spying on Americans' financial data: report The Central Intelligence Agency is amassing a huge database of international money transfers that includes the financial and personal data of millions of Americans, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
15 November 2013
Graces Jones, Britain's oldest person. Photo courtesy of bigissue.com Britain's oldest resident dies aged 113 Britain's oldest resident died on Thursday just a few weeks short of her 114th birthday.
15 November 2013
©Reuters/Paul Hackett Anger in New Zealand at 'close your legs' rape defence Victims' rights advocates in New Zealand on Thursday condemned a defence lawyer who told a rape victim she should have "closed her legs" if she wanted to avoid having sex.
14 November 2013
©Reuters/Petar Kujundzic Chinese man gives future bride 8.88 mn in cash A Chinese suitor who gave his future bride an auspicious 8.88 million yuan ($1.5 million) in cash drew ire Thursday for the extravagant display of wealth in the still-developing country.
14 November 2013
Young Frenchman too heavy to fly will go home by ship A young Frenchman who weighs 230 kilograms (500 pounds) and was deemed too heavy to fly on a jetliner arrived in New York Tuesday to head home by ship.
13 November 2013
The online transaction value on Alipay, an online payment system of China's leading e-commerce retailers Taobao.com and Tmall.com. ©Reuters China Singles Day online shoppers spend almost $6 bn Chinese shoppers spent a record 35.0 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) at the country's biggest online marketplaces on Singles Day, their operator said Tuesday, after the festival created by e-tailers to persuade the loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.
13 November 2013
©Reuters/Wong Campion Japan gov't report finds serious abuse of disabled The abuse of disabled people has emerged as a major problem in Japan with the violence most often inflicted by family members or domestic carers, according to a government survey.
12 November 2013
Lost kingdom: Myanmar's forgotten royals In a modest Yangon apartment, the granddaughter of Myanmar's last king lives poor and unrecognised by her neighbours -- a far cry from the power and riches of her ancestor.
10 November 2013
Philippine elite fight ageing with stem cell therapy Cynthia Carrion-Norton flits high-heeled around the Philippine capital with energy levels belying her years, thankful for a controversial treatment she highly recommends to fellow sixty-somethings.
10 November 2013
Two members of the environmentalist organisation "Greenpeace" stand next to skeletons as they, along with about 30 other environmentalists, protest against pollution. ©Reuters/STR New 200 million people at risk from toxic pollution: environmentalists Hundreds of millions of people worldwide risk exposure to toxic pollution, environmental groups warned Monday, publishing a list of the world's worst areas, including an African processing site for European electronics.
05 November 2013
McDonald's Japan 'sorry' over homeless ban McDonald's Japan issued an apology Friday after it was revealed one of its outlets had posted a notice banning homeless people for more than a year.
02 November 2013
©Reuters Almaty Mayor admits gays exist in his city Akim (Mayor) of Almaty city Akhmetzhan Yessimov has admitted the existence of gays in the city.
01 November 2013
500 civilians evacuated from besieged Syrian town Some 500 women, children and elderly civilians trapped in the besieged town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, southwest of Damascus, have been evacuated.
30 October 2013
UN inquiry chief left in tears by N. Korea brutality The head of a UN inquiry into North Korea rights abuses told Tuesday how he had been reduced to tears by witness accounts of people who fled the hardline state.
30 October 2013
Churchill's London bunker welcomes wannabe WWII spies Deep in the bowels of London's Churchill War Rooms, shadowy figures are learning how to defuse bombs, crack codes and rooting out hidden microphones.
28 October 2013
Britain braces for worst storm in a decade Britain faced travel chaos on Monday and more than 10,000 homes were without electricity in northwestern France as a massive storm swept in from the Atlantic Ocean.
28 October 2013
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