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Walker died of traumatic injuries : coroner AFP January 4, 2014, 3:14 pm A coroner s report has ruled the death of late Fast and Furious star Paul Walker as an accident. PAA The Porsche carrying late Fast and Furious star Paul Walker was doing more than 160 kilometres per hour when it...

Macau casinos hit jackpot with $45B revenue AP January 2, 2014, 9:13 pm The tiny Chinese city of Macau has again smashed its annual record for casino earnings as revenues last year hit a staggering $US45 billion ($A50.74 billion). The money earned cemented Macau's position as the world's...

Snowden 'justified,' deserves lighter punishment - NYT editorial Reuters January 3, 2014, 2:29 am A Washington Metro bus is seen with an Edward Snowden sign on its side panel December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should grant former NSA...

Fox meat makes an ass of Wal-Mart's China donkey product AFP January 2, 2014, 9:27 pm Beijing (AFP) - Global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has recalled a donkey meat product from some Chinese stores after tests found traces of other animals' DNA, the company said Thursday, after authorities...

Kolkata gangrape case: Murdered teenager was pregnant, say West Bengal police India Today Online Kolkata, January 2, 2014 | UPDATED 13:39 IST The 16-year-old girl, who was twice gangraped in a West Bengal town and two months later set on fire by her miscreants to silence her at her house...

Five headless bodies found in western Mexico AFP December 29, 2013, 1:35 pm Morelia (Mexico) (AFP) - Authorities found five decapitated bodies in western Mexico, with letters left with the corpses purportedly signed by a drug cartel, officials said. The bodies, with their heads laying...

UK Mum tries to sell baby on Gumtree Yahoo!7 December 29, 2013, 11:49 am A UK woman has had both her children removed from her care after she attempted to sell a young boy on Gumtree. The Daily Mail reports a post on online classified's website Gumtree offered to sell a four-month-old boy for...

Giant panda in Thailand pregnant, says zoo AFP December 29, 2013, 6:39 pm Bangkok (AFP) - A zoo in northern Thailand said Sunday that it was preparing for the birth of a second giant panda in the New Year thanks to artificial insemination. Chiang Mai Zoo said 12-year-old Lin Hui, who along...

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Woman suicide bomber kills at least 13 at Russian station Reuters December 29, 2013, 8:18 pm A still image taken from video shows firefighters, Emergency Ministry members and medics working outside a train station near the site of an explosion in Volgograd December 29, 2013. REUTERS/Reuters...

Thai anti-government protester shot dead - hospital official Reuters December 28, 2013, 3:27 pm A Thai security personnel inspects destroyed police trucks at the Thai-Japan youth stadium, the site of fierce clashes between anti-government protester and riot police, in central Bangkok...

China formally eases one-child policy, abolishes labour camps Reuters December 28, 2013, 3:06 pm People walk outside a labour camp in Kunming, Yunnan province, November 22, 2013. REUTERS/John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China formally approved on Saturday easing its decades-long one-child...

China officials get up to 11 years over vendor death: media AFP December 28, 2013, 2:44 am Beijing (AFP) - A Chinese court on Friday sentenced four government workers to between three and a half and 11 years' jail over a dispute that left a roadside vendor dead, state media reported...

Argentina court grants abortion for teen rape victim AFP December 28, 2013, 7:40 am Buenos Aires (AFP) - A court in Argentina ruled Friday that a 14-year old rape victim could have an abortion, overturning a lower court decision barring the girl from seeking the procedure which had triggered...

Gang selling personal information busted Shanghai Daily, December 24, 2013 A 10-member gang were caught in Beijing and Shanghai for illegally obtaining and selling personal information, with local police saying it had seized data belonging to nearly 1 million people. The gang made over 320,000...

Drug maker probed after baby deaths China Daily, December 24, 2013 Hepatitis B vaccines produced by Biokangtai, a drug maker based in the southern city of Shenzhen, have caused death of several babies in recent weeks. [file photo] China has sent health experts to investigate a drug maker to...

Hospital attacker with mental disorder sentenced to life Xinhua, December 24, 2013 A hospital attacker with a mental disorder was sentenced to life imprisonment after a fatal assault at a hospital in east China's Anhui Province last November, said a local court Tuesday. Cai Chunfeng, 42...

Former Argentine leader acquitted in bribery case AFP December 24, 2013, 9:22 am Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentina's former president Fernando de la Rua, accused of ordering the payment of bribes to senators in 2000, was acquitted Monday in a federal court in Buenos Aires. A former legislative...

AIDS stalks varsities in Guangzhou Shanghai Daily, December 24, 2013 Nearly 40 universities in Guangzhou have reported AIDS cases among their student population, and reported that most of the affected students were gay. [photo / Xinhua] There has been a sudden spike in the number of...

AIDS stalks varsities in Guangzhou Shanghai Daily, December 24, 2013 Nearly 40 universities in Guangzhou have reported AIDS cases among their student population, and reported that most of the affected students were gay. [photo / Xinhua] There has been a sudden spike in the number of AIDS...