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Thailand quarantines 32 people after second MERS case confirmed PUBLISHED : Monday, 25 January, 2016, 8:51pm UPDATED : Monday, 25 January, 2016, 8:51pm Reuters in Bangkok Thailand identified its second case of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the public health minister said on 24...

Sri Lanka launches investigation into alleged human kidney racket PUBLISHED : Sunday, 24 January, 2016, 5:17pm UPDATED : Sunday, 24 January, 2016, 5:17pm Reuters in Colombo The illegal kidney trade is common throughout South Asia where poor ‘donors’ are paid as little as US$500. File photo...

Man's torso found in suitcase floating in Irish canal Police unable to find head, limbs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 10:03 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 10:37 AM EST File photo of the Grand Canal in Dublin. (Wikimedia Commons/Kaihsu Tai/HO)...

10 suspects charged over Istanbul bomb attack AFP January 18, 2016, 6:42 am Istanbul (AFP) - A Turkish court on Sunday charged ten people over the suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district that killed 10 Germans, media reported. The ten, who were charged with belonging to...

Four boys detained after playground rape of teenager, whose father was ordered to leave at gunpoint PUBLISHED : Monday, 11 January, 2016, 8:54am UPDATED : Monday, 11 January, 2016, 1:07pm Reuters in New York Some of the youths suspected of gang raping a teenage girl in a Brooklyn park are...

India lifts ban on controversial bull run festival PUBLISHED : Friday, 08 January, 2016, 10:36pm UPDATED : Friday, 08 January, 2016, 10:36pm Agence France-Presse in Chennai In the centuries-old festival of Jallikattu, which means “bull-taming”, bulls are let loose and young men compete to...

World's fattest man Andres Moreno dies in Mexico Andres Moreno, who at his heaviest weighed 70 stone, died of a heart attack on Christmas Day Andres Moreno Photo: EPA/ULISES RUIZ BASURTO By Harriet Alexander, New York 1:16AM GMT 26 Dec 2015 The world's most obese man has died...

'I will take a life': Man charged over New Year's Eve attack plot in Rochester, New York AP January 1, 2016, 5:08 pm An ex-convict seeking to prove he was worthy of joining the Islamic State group planned to carry out a New Year's Eve attack at a bar using a machete and knives provided by an...

US 'affluenza' teen arrested in Mexico resort town AFP December 30, 2015, 6:31 am Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) - A wealthy Texas teenager was detained in Mexico along with his mother, weeks after holding a "going-away party" before he fled probation for a deadly drunk-driving crash, officials...

Taipei subway knife attacker sentenced to 3 years Xinhua, December 25, 2015 A man who wounded four passengers in a Taipei subway station by knife was sentenced to three years in jail by a Taipei court Friday. The court convicted Kuo Yen-chun, 27, of assault and theft. According to the court...

Man arrested at Sri Lankan airport for ‘smuggling gold bars in rectum’ PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 December, 2015, 5:06pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 23 December, 2015, 6:09pm The Guardian Officers at Bandaranaike airport in Colombo find 400g of gold hidden in man after seeing him ‘walking...

Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming South Korean leader PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 December, 2015, 8:54pm UPDATED : Thursday, 17 December, 2015, 8:54pm Agence France-Presse in Seoul Japanese reporter Tatsuya Kato of Sankei Shimbun newspaper. Photo: AP A Japanese journalist was...

Trump says Republican leaders 'kidding themselves' about stopping him AFP December 14, 2015, 7:50 am Washington (AFP) - Republican frontrunner Donald Trump pushed back Sunday against party leaders reportedly looking to block his path to the presidential nomination, saying they were "kidding...

Man linked to 'Jihad Jane' detained in Spain AFP December 12, 2015, 6:56 am Barcelona (AFP) - Spain on Friday said it had detained an alleged jihadist wanted by Washington for conspiring with a woman known as "Jihad Jane" to recruit people online for attacks in Europe and South Asia. Ali...

South Korea converts monks and priests to taxpayers PUBLISHED : Thursday, 03 December, 2015, 3:36pm UPDATED : Thursday, 03 December, 2015, 3:36pm Agence France-Presse in Seoul A South Korean shaman. Photo: Reuters After a debate stretching back more than 40 years, South Korea’s parliament...

South Korean academic denies defaming ‘comfort women’ in book PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 02 December, 2015, 8:48pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 02 December, 2015, 8:48pm Agence France-Presse in Seoul Park Yu-ha, a literature professor at South Korea’s Sejong University. Photo: AFP A South Korean...

Baltimore police trial opens in Freddie Gray homicide AFP December 1, 2015, 6:48 am Washington (AFP) - A police officer went on trial Monday in the case of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose death from injuries in a police van ignited riots in Baltimore earlier this year. William...

Colorado shooting suspect Robert Dear described as reclusive oddball who expressed anti-Obama views Two civilians and one police officer killed, with nine more people injured. PUBLISHED : Sunday, 29 November, 2015, 2:57pm UPDATED : Sunday, 29 November, 2015, 2:59pm Associated Press in...

Suspect named in rampage at Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic Reuters November 29, 2015, 5:33 am Robert L. Dear is seen in an undated picture released by the Colorado Springs (Colorado) Police Department November 28, 2015. REUTERS/Colorado Springs Police Department/Handout via Reuters By...

Lufthansa cabin crew to strike Thursday, Friday Reuters November 24, 2015, 1:04 am An A380 aircraft stands half inside a hanger at the Lufthansa Technik facility in Frankfurt, Germany November 18, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa cabin crew have been called to...