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Texas blast paramedic Bryce Reed arrested, lies exposed AP May 12, 20131:19AM Bryce Reed, at a memorial service for Cyrus Reed and other victims of the West, Texas, fertiliser plant explosion last month. Picture: AP Source: AP THREE days after a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer...

Impromptu spacewalk finds nothing amiss on International Space Station AP May 12, 201312:52AM A file photo shows astronauts Tom Marshburn, left, and Christopher Cassidy during a spacewalk for maintenance tasks in 2009. Picture: NASA Source: AP TWO astronauts took a hastily planned spacewalk...

Smoke forces White House evacuation AP May 11, 201311:39PM District of Columbia Fire department trucks and personnel respond to a call at the White House, where the West Wing including the media area were evacuated because of smoke. Source: AP REPORTERS and photographers were evacuated...

Does Beijing's new People's Daily building remind you of anything? Its state TV headquarters has been called the big underpants. Now China's official newspaper has a phallic tower to match Oliver Wainwright The Guardian, Friday 10 May 2013 17.19 BST The People's Daily office building in...

Petition to White House to Deport Zhu Lin Poisoning Suspect by Allison Pan on Saturday, May 11, 2013 From NetEase: 30,000 People Signed Petition Requesting White House Intervention on Zhu Ling’s Case Not long ago, [the news on] Fudan University graduate student Huang Yang being poisoned to...

North Korean Traffic Officer Crying During Award by Fauna on Friday, May 10, 2013 From NetEase: North Korean Female Traffic Officer Bawling While Receiving Hero of the Republic Award May 9th, Japan’s NHK television channel reported that a female traffic police officer in North Korea’s...

13-Year-Old Chinese Girl Murders Classmate for Being Prettier by Peter Barefoot on Thursday, May 9, 2013 From NetEase: 13-Year-Old Girl Murders and Dismembers Classmate for Being Prettier Than Her From Xinhua.net Guangxi Channel May 6 news, a girl not yet 13 years old and still in 6th...

Company Has Employees Crawl in Public as Training Exercise by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 From QQ: Company in Chongqing Orders Employees to Crawl on Their Knees, Claims It Is to Challenge Their Resilience to Pressure According to multiple weibo posts by Chongqing netizens, at...

JPMorgan: Bloomberg reporters tapped into our terminal data, too By MARK DeCAMBRE and KAJA WHITEHOUSE Last Updated: 11:12 PM, May 10, 2013 Posted: 10:42 PM, May 10, 2013 Wall Street bulls are raging mad at Bloomberg LP. A day after The Post broke the news of the company’s spying scandal, a...

Maid Finds Explosive Device In Teen's Bedroom Chris Cole, The Arizona Republic11:30 a.m. EDT May 8, 2013 Police find additional materials used for making improvised explosive devices. Joshua Prater, 18, is taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct involving weapons and possessing a...

North Korea has gained nothing from recent threats, Obama says U.S. President Barack Obama (R) gestures as he and South Korea's President Park Geun-hye address a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 7, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Paul...

Nigerian Islamist raid in northeast town kills 55: military Military vehicles approach the entrance of the Shehu's Palace of Bama, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. May 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Ibrahim Mshelizza BAMA, Nigeria | Tue May 7, 2013 8:18pm EDT (Reuters) - Suspected...

China detains activist for subversion after pressuring leaders on wealth: lawyer Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with French President Francois Hollande (not seen) during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing April 25, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Yohsuke Mizuno/Pool By...

China calls U.S. the "real hacking empire" after Pentagon report A paramilitary policeman prepares for a national flag-lowering ceremony in front of a portrait of the late chairman Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, August 17, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Jason Lee BEIJING | Tue May 7, 2013...

Sea cucumbers, abalone off the menu in China frugality drive The Merrylin Restaurant sign on a Yanjing Beer advertisement is seen outside its closed restaurant in Yuetan Mansion in Beijing, May 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Jason Lee By Kevin Yao and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING | Tue May 7, 2013...

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Bride Among Five Dead In California Limo Fire The women - all nurses - died after they were trapped inside a burning limousine on the San Mateo bridge across San Francisco Bay. 3:19pm Monday 06 May 2013 The cause of the fire is not yet determined A bride was among five women who died when...

New Gonorrhoea Strain 'Worse Than Aids' Doctors in the US warn that a new drug-resistant strain of the sexually-transmitted disease is "potentially disastrous". 1:19pm Monday 06 May 2013 Condom use is key to cutting gonorrhoea infection rates A new antibiotic-resistant form of gonorrhoea...

M23 soldiers demonstrate unarmed combat at Rumangabo military camp, North Kivu April 27, 2013. REUTERS/Jonny Hogg

Analysis: Congo rebels prepare to face U.N. force with mandate to attack M23 soldiers stand at parade at Rumangabo military camp, a former government installation seized last year during the fighting, April 27, 2013. REUTERS/Jonny Hogg By Jonny Hogg RUMANGABO, Democratic Republic of Congo |...