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Outrage in France after video shows police beating teen protester AFP on March 26, 2016, 4:05 am Paris (AFP) - A video of a police officer punching a teenager sparked fury in France on Friday, with high school pupils staging violent protests outside police stations in Paris. The video shows...

Britain to launch cyberattacks against ISIS to stop them recruiting fanatics and plotting atrocities online Chancellor vows Britain will 'take the fight' to enemies on the internet Says military must be as strong online as on land, sea, in the air and space Cyber national security incidents...

Malaysia’s jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim needs UN and US support, daughter says PUBLISHED : Friday, 18 September, 2015, 4:18pm UPDATED : Friday, 18 September, 2015, 4:18pm Agence France-Presse in Washington Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was convicted last year of...

Hong Kong police bust triad loan sharks who raked in HK$100 million Covert operation follows crackdown on illegal lenders who charged up to 700 per cent interest PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 September, 2015, 2:29am UPDATED : Thursday, 17 September, 2015, 2:29am Clifford Lo [email protected]...

'Queen's vagina' sculpture at Versailles vandalised again AFP September 7, 2015, 5:57 am Paris (AFP) - A controversial sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor on display in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles -- and informally dubbed the "queen's vagina" -- was vandalised again on Sunday, this...

Inside the 'city of sex' where men 'have three girlfriends' because there's so many women 13:13, 2 September 2015 Updated 14:03, 2 September 2015 By Kirstie McCrum Local factories running assembly plants prefer not to use men as they find them unreliable and instead offer work mainly to women...

Ming Pao journalist arrested ‘for taking upskirt photo’ of colleague at newspaper’s Hong Kong office PUBLISHED : Thursday, 27 August, 2015, 11:12am UPDATED : Thursday, 27 August, 2015, 11:17pm Ben Westcott [email protected] Ming Pao's offices in Chai Wan, where the alleged offence took...

Samsung launches a flip phone with dual displays and running Snapdragon 808 SoC Image: GforGames By tech News Staff / 15 Aug 2015 , 16:59 Just a couple of days after launching its high end Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, Samsung has released another phone for the Chinese market. The...

Malaysia’s anti-graft unit says about US$700 million in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s accounts are donations, not from 1MDB Authorities did not elaborate on the donor or why the money was transferred to Najib’s private accounts PUBLISHED : Monday, 03 August, 2015, 7:07pm UPDATED : Monday, 03...

Pakistani supermodel freed from jail after being caught with US$500,000 in cash at airport PUBLISHED : Friday, 17 July, 2015, 9:55am UPDATED : Friday, 17 July, 2015, 9:55am Associated Press in Islamabad Pakistani model Ayaan Ali was arrested in the VIP lounge of Islamabad’s airport in...

Government audit criticises Malaysia's state fund 1MDB for not cooperating with probe PUBLISHED : Friday, 10 July, 2015, 1:08am UPDATED : Friday, 10 July, 2015, 1:08am Reuters in Kuala Lumpur Malaysian police seize equipment from the 1MDB office on Wednesday. Photo: AFP An interim report...

English is the world lingua franca A lingua franca (lingua francas), also known as a bridge language, trade language or vehicular language, is a language systematically (as opposed to occasionally, or casually) used to make communication possible between persons not sharing a native language...

Political dissidents from China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc... asking US for help.... :D Vietnam dissidents urge US help to boost human rights AFP June 18, 2015, 9:40 am Washington (AFP) - Vietnamese dissidents Wednesday pleaded for international help for prisoners of conscience jailed...

15 Hong Kong businesses hit with plastic bag spot-fines of HK$2,000 Businesses slapped with on-the-spot fines of HK$2,000 as new 'green' law takes hold PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 03 June, 2015, 3:29am UPDATED : Wednesday, 03 June, 2015, 3:29am Danny Lee [email protected] Enforcement of Hong...

Russian airliner ‘took wrong turn over Beijing’ Aircraft took brief, impromptu flight over suburbs just after take-off from city's airport until put right by air traffic control, according to newspaper report PUBLISHED : Friday, 29 May, 2015, 4:51pm UPDATED : Friday, 29 May, 2015, 8:00pm...

Peterborough grooming trial: Mohammed Khubaib jailed for 13 years 15 May 2015 From the section Cambridgeshire Khubaib was sentenced to 13 years in prison A businessman who plied teenage girls with vodka before sexually abusing them has been sentenced to 13 years. Peterborough restaurant...

Singapore orders shutdown of 'anti-foreigner' portal AFP May 3, 2015, 10:41 pm Singapore (AFP) - Singapore on Sunday ordered a local man and an Australian woman facing jail time for articles seen as hostile to foreigners to shut their website down, saying it threatens "public order and...

Mysterious clouds form 'god-like' figure over volcano AFP April 27, 2015, 5:44 am Ash from Chile's Calbuco volcano has heaped more misery on air passengers across South America, as towns and cities struggled to clean up from last week's two powerful eruptions. A sleeping giant for more than...

Man gets 100-year term in murder of teacher in oil boom town AP April 18, 2015, 3:24 pm Man gets 100-year term in murder of teacher in oil boom town Michael Keith Spell, 25, was sentenced following a hearing before state District Judge Richard Simonton. Photo: AP A man was sentenced to 100...