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Beijing police seize 41,000 fake iPhones worth US$19m in raid on huge counterfeiting operation PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 28 July, 2015, 9:37am UPDATED : Tuesday, 28 July, 2015, 9:58am Reuters in Beijing Fake iPhones worth an estimated US$19 million were seized by police in Beijing. Photo: Sam...

Users of erectile dysfunction drugs face slight increase in risk of skin cancer Researchers found the risk of melanoma was 21 per cent higher in men who took the erectile dysfunction drugs. PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 24 June, 2015, 1:02am UPDATED : Wednesday, 24 June, 2015, 1:02am Agence...

New York Times apologises for article about Irish student deaths accused of 'victim-blaming' Spokesman said it regretted if readers believed article was insensitive Andrew Buncombe New York Thursday 18 June 2015 A major US newspaper has apologised over what its own ombudsman said was an...

Google puts India PM Narendra Modi in criminal search line-up PUBLISHED : Saturday, 06 June, 2015, 6:55am UPDATED : Saturday, 06 June, 2015, 6:55am Agence France-Presse in San Francisco A billboard of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Xinhua Google on Friday...

Mers case brings back memories of Hong Kong's Sars outbreak PUBLISHED : Sunday, 31 May, 2015, 4:50am UPDATED : Sunday, 31 May, 2015, 4:50am Jennifer Ngo [email protected] Pupils don masks during the Sars outbreak. Photo: Martin Chan A man who has lived in Hong Kong since 1993 yesterday...

S. Korea confirms 12 MERS cases AFP May 29, 2015, 11:54 pm Seoul (AFP) - South Korea confirmed five MERS cases Friday, bringing the total number of patients infected with the potentially deadly virus to 12, including a man who defied a quarantine protocol and travelled to China, health...

8,000 Chinese students in US expelled for low grades, academic dishonesty, breaking rules PUBLISHED : Friday, 29 May, 2015, 2:55pm UPDATED : Friday, 29 May, 2015, 3:59pm Mandy Zuo [email protected] A file photo of a successful Chinese student in the US. Roughly 15 per cent of Chinese...

'Hotel king' among 47 tried over Chinese town's sex trade Boss of city's five-star Crown Prince Hotel, once one of China's richest men, denies masterminding prostitution network, but 43 plead guilty PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 27 May, 2015, 11:17pm UPDATED : Thursday, 28 May, 2015, 6:22am Mimi Lau...

Grace Mugabe, the businessman and the Hong Kong villa Zimbabwe goes to court in Hong Kong as secret of a scandal-hit £4 million property threatens to spill out The £4 million luxury villa in Hong Kong is said to be one of the favourite properties of the controversial Zimbabwean...

Man tries to smuggle 18 iPhones into mainland China … inside his bike Smuggler accused in Shenzhen of stashing the smartphones in the frame of his bicycle PUBLISHED : Friday, 22 May, 2015, 12:20pm UPDATED : Friday, 22 May, 2015, 12:20pm Celine Sun [email protected] The suspect hangs his...

Briton guilty of making bomb that killed U.S. sergeant in Iraq Reuters May 22, 2015, 1:17 am LONDON (Reuters) - A London taxi driver was found guilty of murder on Thursday for his role in making bombs used against U.S. forces in Iraq in 2007, including one that killed an American sergeant...

Airliner hacked? Computer expert told FBI he made plane move mid-flight PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 19 May, 2015, 8:02am UPDATED : Tuesday, 19 May, 2015, 8:02am Associated Press Security researcher Chris Roberts claimed he used a cable to connect his laptop to an electronics box beneath passenger...

Cambodia deports Russian tycoon Sergei Polonsky wanted for embezzlement PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 May, 2015, 3:29am UPDATED : Monday, 18 May, 2015, 3:29am Associated Press in Phnom Penh Fugitive Russian ex-billionaire Sergei Polonsky (centre) is escorted to a plane at Phnom Penh International...

MH370 search finds uncharted shipwreck AFP May 14, 2015, 4:43 am The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has uncovered a previously uncharted shipwreck deep underwater, leading officials to say that if the plane is in their search zone they will find it. The Australian-led team is...

Sicilian Mafia kingpin's hideout turned into a police station in Italy PUBLISHED : Monday, 11 May, 2015, 12:37am UPDATED : Monday, 11 May, 2015, 12:37am Agence France-Presse in Rome Outside of the house where Toto Riina, the former chief of the Sicilian Mafia, spent the last months before...

Russian spacecraft burns up on re-entry AFP May 8, 2015, 9:24 pm Moscow (AFP) - An unmanned Russian supply ship disintegrated as it plummeted to Earth on Friday after suffering a communications failure on its way to the International Space Station, in a fiery end to a mission to deliver...

Trafficked Vietnamese woman in China rescued and returned Xinhua, May 1, 2015 Chinese police have returned a Vietnamese woman sold into marriage in east China to her home country. Police in Dongxing City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said they transferred 26-year-old Vuong...

EU says 1,000 citizens unaccounted for after Nepal quake AFP May 1, 2015, 10:19 pm Kathmandu (AFP) - A thousand European Union citizens in Nepal are still unaccounted for, nearly a week after a massive quake that hit during the peak trekking season, the EU ambassador to Nepal said Friday...

Firefighter saves woman from suicide with a kick to the head Yahoo News April 30, 2015, 4:52 am A steel-nerved firefighter has saved a woman from an apparent suicide attempt, and the heroic effort has been caught on video. The pictures show a woman in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza sitting...