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A man recovers his wedding photo from the wreckage of his house in Longmen township of Lushan county, Sichuan province Picture: REUTERS/Rooney Chen

Syria: 11th-century minaret of Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo destroyed The 11th-century minaret of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, one of the world's oldest and most important, has been destroyed by shellfire as the Syrian war consumes the country's vast repository of historic sites. By...

Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny arrives for a court hearing in Kirov April 24, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny (2nd R) confers with his legal team during a court hearing in Kirov April...

Putin foe Navalny urges Russian court to throw out charges By Gabriela Baczynska KIROV, Russia | Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:20am EDT (Reuters) - Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny urged a court on Wednesday to throw out what he said were trumped-up charges intended to silence one of President...

Chinese Police Car Hits Crossing Pedestrian Then Drives Away by Fauna on Thursday, April 18, 2013 The following video has over 1.3m views and nearly 5k comments 10 hours after being uploaded… Caught: Police Car Hits a Person, Shrugs, Drives Off Against Traffic with Sirens Blaring 2013...

Student Saves Computers, Cameras and Pet Turtle in Earthquake by Fauna on Monday, April 22, 2013 Taking these things during an earthquake is stupid, not only encumbering one’s own speed, but also possibly getting in the way of those behind. The magnitude of this earthquake was not as high as...

Kyoto Station Homeless Are Human Rights Issue For Council by Beth on Monday, April 22, 2013 Homeless men at Kyoto Station are a human rights issue for Kyoto City Council. Homelessness in Japan is perhaps not as visible as in other major cities around the world, but it is still a social...

First Lesbian Couple Get Married At Tokyo Disney Resort by Beth on Monday, April 8, 2013 The happy couple take a gondola ride at Tokyo Disney Resort. In March this year, the first lesbian couple to marry at Tokyo Disney Resort released pictures of their special day on Twitter, with many...

Textbook Changes Erase Comfort Women, Says Chinese Media by julia on Thursday, April 18, 2013 While earlier this week we saw an article on how key historical figures from premodern Japanese history were being revised in new history textbooks, Chinese media outletXinhua has also raised the...

Man Holds Woman Hostage With Knife As Rooftop Drama Unfolds by Beth on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Rooftop drama unfolds as police special investigation team marksmen move in. On April 16, a six and a half hour rooftop drama unfolded in Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture, where a knife-wielding...

China orders military chiefs to serve stints as junior soldiers By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING | Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:38am EDT (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his top brass to spend two weeks as junior soldiers every few years as a way of boosting military morale - but...

Margaret Thatcher protest ring leader cashed in on right-to-buy scheme Romany Blythe, the woman behind an internet campaign to “celebrate” Margaret Thatcher’s death, made a sizeable profit from the Iron Lady’s right-to-buy scheme by purchasing her council house, it has emerged. Thatcher...

Maduro sworn in, Venezuela to review disputed vote By Daniel Wallis and Brian Ellsworth CARACAS | Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:06pm EDT (Reuters) - Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as Venezuela's president on Friday at a ceremony attended by leaders from Iran to Brazil after a decision to widen an...

Romanian gang branded 'modern-day highway men' as they are jailed for 19 years for posing as traffic police and stopping tourists to rob them They used fake badges, police stop signs and flashing blue lights Gang identified foreign vehicles to target on M20 in Kent They took £25,000 off...

Russia opens new investigation against protest leader Navalny Russian opposition leader and anti-graft blogger Alexei Navalny (C) leaves after a court hearing in the city of Kirov April 17, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW | Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:47am EDT (Reuters) - Russian...

Babies as young as six months victims of rape in war: U.N. envoy By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:33pm EDT (Reuters) - In her first seven months as U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a Congolese district where rebels raped babies...

Naked Chinese Girl Salutes Red Army Soldiers in TV War Drama by Fauna on Friday, April 12, 2013 From QQ: Fully-Naked Woman in War of Resistance Against Japan Television Drama, Exchanges Salutes with Red Army Soldiers Summary: A netizen microblog exposed that, in what should be a very...

Sino-Japanese War TV Dramas Becoming Increasingly Ridiculous by Fauna on Friday, April 12, 2013 The below video of the April 10th broadcast of CCTV news program News 1+1 criticizing Chinese anti-Japanese television dramas was uploaded yesterday April 11th and already has over 6 million...