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US drone strike kills two in NW Pakistan A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least two suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Friday, officials said.

29 November 2013 14:24

Kazakhstan cardio surgeons appreciated by American colleague American surgeon Oscar Frazier M.D. gave high praise to the professional level of Kazakhstan surgeons.

29 November 2013 13:59

Belgium close to agreeing euthanasia for children Eleven years after making euthanasia legal for adults, Belgium came a step closer to extending mercy-killing to terminally-ill children Wednesday after an intense public debate on the ethical issues at stake.

29 November 2013 13:58

Comet ISON vanishes as it circles the sun Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said.

29 November 2013 13:00

Japan's Abe appoints first ever female PM aide Japan's Shinzo Abe on Friday named the country's first ever female aide to the prime minister, just weeks after Caroline Kennedy arrived as the first woman US ambassador to Tokyo.

29 November 2013 12:31

Disney gives folk tale cool makeover in 'Frozen' Disney has given a chilly makeover to a traditional fairy tale in its latest animated release "Frozen," which could be in the running for an Oscar.

29 November 2013 11:04

Hollywood film-shoots boost struggling Spanish islands Barefoot young men in ragged clothes disembark from a 19th century-style whaling ship bobbing in the bay off the Spanish island of Gomera. Despite their shipwrecked appearance, they are here on business.

28 November 2013 17:39

NSA snooped on Islamists' porn habits: report The National Security Agency planned to discredit Islamist "radicals" by spying on their online pornography habits, The Huffington Post reported Wednesday, citing a document leaked by ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

28 November 2013 16:04

UN women's rights resolution passed despite backlash A UN General Assembly committee has agreed a landmark first resolution on women's rights defenders such as Malala Yousafzai, despite a hard fought campaign by an alliance including the Vatican to weaken the measure.

28 November 2013 15:34

US Holocaust survivor meets Polish savior 70 years on A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.

28 November 2013 11:38

Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher finalize divorce Former Hollywood power couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are officially divorced, two years after she announced their split, according to legal documents released Wednesday.

28 November 2013 11:04

Chevron alleges Ecuador fraud in oil pollution case Chevron claimed Tuesday that corrupt Ecuadoran plaintiffs mounted an elaborate fraud to win a multi-billion-dollar case against it for polluting the Amazonian rainforest, in arguments before a US court.

27 November 2013 18:00

China 'monitored' US B-52 air zone flights: ministry China "monitored" US B-52 bomber flights in its newly-declared air defence identification zone, the defence ministry said Wednesday, in an assertion of its authority that stopped short of threatening direct action.

27 November 2013 17:42

Thirty Haitians dead after ship capsizes in Bahamas: US About 30 Haitian migrants died after an overloaded freighter capsized in the Bahamas and 110 others were rescued in rough seas, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday.

27 November 2013 17:03

'It's not relief work in Sudan': Streep on acting Meryl Streep is brilliant as a domineering, drug-addicted, cancer-suffering grandmother in her latest film "August: Osage County" but she won't pretend to have the worst job in the world.

27 November 2013 16:36

World's most expensive printed book sells for $14.2mn The first book written in what is today the United States of America fetched $14.2 million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the world's most expensive printed book sold at auction.

27 November 2013 13:12

Obama to 'pardon' Thanksgiving turkeys President Barack Obama will symbolically "pardon" two turkeys Wednesday on the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday, in what has become an annual White House rite.

27 November 2013 12:37

Captain America shield tops US danger toy list Consumer activists Tuesday cited a Captain America shield that contains 29 times more lead than allowed by law as one of the most dangerous toys of 2013.

27 November 2013 12:03

Boxing: Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin ready to lose weight to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. The star boxer from Kazakhstan Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin is ready to move to a new weight division to face the American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.

27 November 2013 11:24

Will comet ISON survive its near brush with the Sun? US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart.

27 November 2013 10:31

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