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Top Islamic State commander killed in Syria, Pentagon official says PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 March, 2016, 11:29pm UPDATED : Friday, 25 March, 2016, 11:29pm WASHINGTON POST A top Islamic State commander named Haji Imam was killed during an operation earlier this month, a senior US defence...

Cambodia’s Hun Sen denies buying up Facebook ‘likes’ PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 March, 2016, 11:11pm UPDATED : Thursday, 17 March, 2016, 11:11pm Agence France-Presse in Phnom Penh Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen. Photo: Reuters Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen denied buying fake ‘likes’...

Facebook investigated over market-power abuse claims 2 hours ago Technology The formal investigation is the first to be held into Facebook Getty Images German authorities are investigating Facebook for suspected abuse of its dominant market position. The country's federal cartel office...

Muslim army reservist sues US gun range for refusing him service PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 February, 2016, 12:23pm UPDATED : Thursday, 18 February, 2016, 12:23pm Associated Press in Oklahoma City Raja'ee Fatihah, who says he was asked to leave a gun range in Oklahoma after identifying...

China confirms first Zika case; man infected travelled through Hong Kong Man from Jiangxi province suffered fever, rash but symptoms abated PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 10 February, 2016, 9:36am UPDATED : Wednesday, 10 February, 2016, 8:32pm Agencies in Beijing Li Jing and Peace Chiu Aedes...

Ex-cop pleads guilty to killing teen, ditching her body along highway in a suitcase Gretchen Ehlke, The Associated Press First posted: Monday, January 25, 2016 01:28 PM EST | Updated: Monday, January 25, 2016 01:41 PM EST Former police officer Steven Zelich, left, pleaded guilty in the death...

Bomb threat on Swedish plane was false: police AFP January 23, 2016, 6:07 am Stockholm (AFP) - A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plane carrying 72 people from London to Stockholm was on Friday diverted to Gothenburg and the passengers evacuated, due to a bomb threat which turned out to be false...

Mugabe heart attack rumour 'a grim lie' AAP January 14, 2016, 10:21 pm A rumour than Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has suffered a heart attack is a "grim lie", his spokesman George Charamba says. The online news website Zim Eye (http://www.zimeye.net) published a letter on Tuesday...

New Zealand man working as teacher in ISIS-occupied Syria updates LinkedIn page with skills, location Nicholas McCallum January 12, 2016, 7:13 am A New Zealand man who fled to Syria is believed to have set up a LinkedIn page where he bills himself as an "Education Management Professional"...

Shots fired at German refugee home AP January 5, 2016, 8:22 am Several shots have been fired at a home for asylum seekers in western Germany, leaving one resident lightly injured. The shots were fired at a window of the building in the town of Dreieich in the early hours of Monday morning...

Munich train stations reopen after warning of ‘imminent’ attacks by IS suicide bombers PUBLISHED : Friday, 01 January, 2016, 11:35am UPDATED : Friday, 01 January, 2016, 12:48pm Agencies in Munich Heavily armed police guard Munich train station as they called on the public to avoid large...

Man, who knocked out, beheaded boss in France, hangs self in prison REUTERS First posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 10:34 AM EST | Updated: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:07 AM EST A man supposed to be Yassin Salhi , the suspect who held over an attack against a gas company site is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWyd4AdIWTI Published on Dec 21, 2015 Beijing's primary and middle school students are being encouraged to study at home, as schools remain shut due to the red alert for smog. But parents are complaining that all this is hurting their kids’ education.

Surveillance secret weapon in China pollution struggle AFP December 13, 2015, 9:33 pm Beijing (AFP) - In the future, China will shut down a factory before it even pollutes -- or so it hopes, as it deploys big data in the fight against bad air. In Beijing's environmental bureau, a team of...

Hacker Group Anonymous Says it Brought Down Japanese PM's Website BY MIRREN GIDDA 12/10/15 AT 4:39 AM A man wearing a mask associated with Anonymous makes a statement in this still image from a video released on social media on November 16, 2015. REUTERS/SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE The hacker...

Five Koreans arrested over 'exorcism' in Germany AFP December 10, 2015, 5:04 am Berlin (AFP) - German police have arrested five South Korean family members suspected of beating to death a 41-year-old woman in a religious exorcism ritual in a hotel room, prosecutors said. The relatives...

Store keeps getting broken into. Owner sets a trap and catches a guy breaking in. Hilarity ensues as the burglar panics and tries to escape.

Anti-IS coalition with Russia is wishful thinking, experts warn AFP November 26, 2015, 6:29 am Paris (AFP) - Despite talk of a grand coalition between Russia and the West against the Islamic State group, experts warn that any such project would quickly run into obstacles. Russia's...

Two Chinese men jailed for illegal foreign online sales of mainland human growth hormones using repackaged labels One man jailed for 10 years and another for 16 months after buying drugs legally on the mainland then reselling them with English labelling without a licence to foreign customers on...