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Russian demonstrators rally in support of U.S. adoption ban By Sonia Elks and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW | Sat Mar 2, 2013 10:02am EST (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Saturday in an orderly show of support for a ban on adoptions of Russian children by Americans, echoing...

Al Qaeda issues English-language advice magazine for militants RIYADH | Sat Mar 2, 2013 9:17am EST (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Islamist movement's most active branch, has released an English-language magazine advising would-be militants on how to torch parked cars...

NATO says troops kill two Afghan boys due to mistaken identity KABUL | Sat Mar 2, 2013 8:39am EST (Reuters) - NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of...

US man swallowed up by 30 foot sinkhole A man is missing, presumed dead, after a 30 foot sinkhole opened up under his bedroom in the middle of the night. By Harry Alsop3:16PM GMT 01 Mar 2013 <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/593MDkFcJjA?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"...

'Invisibility cloak' unveiled at TED conference Scientists at the Technology, Education and Design (TED) conference in Los Angeles have demonstrated what is being hailed as breakthrough in the bid to make the invisibility cloak become a reality. 11:57AM GMT 01 Mar 2013 The invisibility...

Police search team digs in garden of nurse arrested over 'cannibal plot' A police search team dug up parts of the back garden of a house where a male nurse was arrested on suspicion of plotting to rape, kill and eat women, it has emerged. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 1:39PM GMT 01 Mar 2013...

Beijing Lesbian Couple Seeking Marriage Registration Refused by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 From NetEase: Two Lesbian Lovers in Beijing Rejected for Marriage Registration February 25, Beijing, lesbian lovers Elsie and Mayu headed to the marriage registry in an attempt to...

Beijing Lesbian Couple Seeking Marriage Registration Refused by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 From NetEase: Two Lesbian Lovers in Beijing Rejected for Marriage Registration February 25, Beijing, lesbian lovers Elsie and Mayu headed to the marriage registry in an attempt to...

Grass Suspected of Being Spray-Painted Green in Chengdu by Li on Friday, March 1, 2013 From China Daily: Chengdu Grass Suspected of Being Sprayed with Green Paint, Construction Bureau Claims It Is A Greening Agent “Two workers were spraying the grass, turning the yellow grass into green...

Government Official Misses Flight, Smashes Departure Gate by Fauna on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 The following airport surveillance footage of a Chinese man losing control and vandalizing a departure gate at Kunming Changshui airport in China has over 1 million views and 2800 comments...

China's high-end cuisine lowers standards to survive anti-corruption Kao Hsing and Staff Reporter 2013-03-01 15:32 A table full of dishes in a restaurant in Fuzhou. (Photo/Xinhua) After the Chinese government vowed to crack down on corruption, most high-end restaurants have turned to the...

Yunan official's tantrum caught on camera Staff Reporter 2013-02-28 12:56 Yunnan official Yan Kunlin's violent behavior caught on security footage. (Internet photo) The tantrum Yan Linkun — a party member of Yunnan province and vice chairman of a local mining group — threw at an airport was...

4 killed in central China school stampede Xinhua 2013-03-01 11:27 The Qinji Primary School. (Photo/Xinhua) A stampede that caused the deaths of four students in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday was attributed to dereliction of duty, according to local officials. At 6:15am...

American football gains increasing popularity in China Staff Reporter 2013-03-01 11:41 American football players in Dallas. (Photo/Xinhua) The prestigious Stanford University and University of Notre Dame are set to organize American football games in China, our sister newspaper the Want...

Elderly population to surpass 200m in 2013 Xinhua 2013-03-01 10:25 An elderly couple in Nanjing. (Photo/Xinhua) China will have 202 million elderly people in 2013, accounting for 14.8% of the total population, the China Research Center on Aging said on Wednesday. According to a center...

Japan closely monitoring PLA Navy: China ministry Xinhua 2013-03-01 17:47 Geng Yansheng speaks during the press event. (Photo/CNS) China has obtained "adequate" evidence of Japanese warships and airplanes conducting close-range monitoring and surveillance of the Chinese navy, China's...

NBA star Dwyane Wade could play in China Staff Reporter 2013-03-01 09:13 Dwyane Wade at a Li-Ning event in Beijing. (Photo/Xinhua) Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade could play professional basketball in China for a year after he retires from the NBA, reports our Chinese-language sister paper...

Xinhua reveals some anti-cancer medicine sold at 1,700 times production cost Staff Reporter 2013-03-01 10:25 An employee at a pharmaceutical company in Kunming, southwestern China. (Photo/Xinhua) An investigation by China's official Xinhua news agency has found that a locally manufactured...