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A demonstrator waves the Philippine flag as people gather during a protest against official corruption at Luneta park in Metro Manila, August 26, 2013, to demand the abolition of a misused fund for legislators' pet projects. REUTERS/Erik De Castro A demonstrator displays placards during a...

Tens of thousands of Filipinos protest "pork barrel" funds Manila's Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (C) stands next to a demonstrator wearing a mask depicting a pig as he takes part in a protest against official corruption at Luneta park in Metro Manila, August 26, 2013, to demand the...

Bangkok-based hacker detained by Shanghai cops Shanghai Daily, August 23, 2013 An online hacker and reportedly the leader of a five-member gang who defrauded online users of over 30 million yuan (US$4.9 million) was detained in Bangkok and brought back to Shanghai on August 19, local police...

Yemen wants US drones to fight Al-Qaeda Published time: August 23, 2013 08:15 The Triton unmanned aircraft system is shown completing its first flight from the Northrop Grumman manufacturing facility in Palmdale, California in this handout photo released by the U.S. Navy May 22, 2013 (U.S...

Al-Qaida plan to 'change face of history' led to US scare, Yemen says Reuters | Aug 23, 2013, 08.59 PM IST US sources have said that while some type of message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula was intercepted recently, there were also other streams of...

Hong Kong offers relief to mainland drought, flood victims Xinhua, August 23, 2013 The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)government has decided on Friday to fund two agencies to help victims of drought and flooding on the Chinese mainland. A HKSAR government spokesman said two...

Railway terrorist rumormonger seized Xinhua, August 23, 2013 Chinese police have detained a man in south China's Guangdong Province for spreading rumors about bombs on board a train. Last Tuesday, police in Guangzhou, capital of the province, received an anonymous tip claiming that a...

Rescuers transfer an injured person at the landslide site in Hezhang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 21, 2013. Three people were dead, and two others injured and another two remain buried after a landslide occurred around 10 p.m. Tuesday in Hezhang County. [Photo/Xinhua]

3 dead, 2 buried after SW China landslide Xinhua, August 21, 2013 Rescuers transfer an injured person at the landslide site in Hezhang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 21, 2013. Three people were dead, and two others injured and another two remain buried after a landslide...

10 terrorists arrested, record explosives seized in SW Pakistan Xinhua | 2013-8-21 8:21:30 By Agencies Pakistan's paramilitary forces on Tuesday arrested 10 suspected terrorists and also seized more than 100 tonnes of bomb-making chemicals and explosives in the country's southwestern...

Liu Jinqing, a villager of the Xinwei Village, searches for life necessities in his house destroyed by the floods in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 20, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]

A civil servant of the Jintian Township walks in a flooded office building in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 20, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chen Jianyou, a villager of the Xinwei Village, talks about his 10 houses destroyed by the floods in Guiping City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 20, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]

Dengue cases reach 123 in Yunnan Xinhua, August 21, 2013 The number of confirmed dengue fever cases rose to 123 in a prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province as of Tuesday afternoon, local health officials said Wednesday. The total included four cases originating outside the province...

French schools are sexist, says state report LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH – 21 AUGUST 2013 French schools are sexist, with boys receiving preferential treatment because teachers are reinforcing gender stereotypes, according to a controversial education ministry report. According to extracts of the...

Published: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 8:08:00 PM Updated: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 8:10:59 PM Syabu found in wallet of police officer injured in accident KUANTAN: Hospital staff found a packet, believed to be syabu (methamphetamine), in the wallet of a senior police officer who was...

Published: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 9:29:00 PM Updated: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 10:33:39 PM Brutally-caned five-year-old girl now in ICU (Updated) BY IVAN HO The girl under the care of doctors at the hospital IPOH: A five-year-old girl, suspected of having been brutally caned by her...

Published: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Friday August 16, 2013 MYT 7:56:23 AM Man in lift assault case held The suspect being held at a police station in Kuantan GEORGE TOWN: Police have arrested the man who went missing after beating up his wife in a lift at a private...

Romanian princess and her former sheriff's deputy husband arrested over alleged cockfighting ring Irina Walker, 60, and her husband John Wesley Walker, 67, were charged Accused of hosting cockfighting derbies and illegal gambling at their ranch By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 09:59 GMT...

60-year-old held for molesting Japanese woman in flight PTI, Aug 16, 2013, 02.43PM IST KOLKATA: A 60-year-old man was arrested here on the charge of molesting a Japanese woman mid-air in a Bangkok-Kolkata Thai Airways flight, airport sources said on Friday. The woman complained to the...