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Pope helps shed light on notorious Italy murder AFP March 7, 2015, 10:11 pm Rome (AFP) - Pope Francis is breaking decades of Vatican silence to help Italy shed light on one of its most notorious crimes, the 1970's murder of former premier Aldo Moro, the Corriere della Sera daily said...

Court reveals FBI still investigating WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Date March 5, 2015 - 2:21PM Philip Dorling A United States court has confirmed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still being targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation more than five years after the anti-secrecy...

Beggar millionaire owns two flats in Beijing By Wu Jin China.org March 2, 2015 A beggar disguised as a crippled man on Subway Line 5 in Beijing. [photo / BTV] Believe it or not, the most lucrative career in Beijing may be nothing but begging, as a beggar's rags-to-riches story has...

MWC: HTC unwraps One M9 phone, fitness tracker and VR headset 2015/03/01 23:59:06 Taipei, March 1 (CNA) Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp. (???) on Sunday unveiled three new devices ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain, including the One M9 flagship phone, the Grip fitness...

Eight dead in Missouri after murder rampage in small town of Tyrone Date February 28, 2015 - 11:18AM Abby Phillip Police tape surrounds one of the crime scenes in Tyrone, Missouri. Authorities say multiple people were shot to death and one was wounded in attacks in the small southeastern...

Chinese officials who lie on resumes and personal records targeted in new audit PUBLISHED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 5:01pm UPDATED : Thursday, 26 February, 2015, 5:01pm Mimi Lau [email protected] Chinese officials who lie on resumes and personal records targeted in new audit Civil...

Social media using swindler ring busted in Changsha Staff Reporter 2015-02-23 One of the suspects at the local police office, Changsha, Jan. 27. (Photo/CFP) As social media having become an integral part of Chinese society, they have also often become a tool for swindlers, such as with a...

Burglar who boasted about his haul on Facebook caught after leaving footsteps in snow Court hears Nathan Heath, 20, stole items totalled £26,000 and included a Ford Fiesta, tow laptops, a TV and cash, but was arrested when police tracked his footprints Serial burglar Nathan Heath, left...

More arrests as Hong Kong continues crackdown on parallel goods trading PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 18 February, 2015, 6:58pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 18 February, 2015, 7:00pm Danny Lee [email protected] Tuen Mun residents organise a rally against parallel trading. Photo: Dickson Lee Eight...

Street protests across Turkey after woman 'killed for resisting rape' Protesters took to the streets in Ankara, Istanbul, and Mersin Jon Stone Sunday 15 February 2015 Thousands of women’s rights activists have taken to the streets in cities across Turkey after a woman was allegedly killed...

Second Yazidi mass grave unearthed in Iraq this week Date February 7, 2015 - 4:04AM Yazidis look down on a mass grave. Photo: AFP Erbil: A mass grave containing the remains of at least 16 Yazidis was unearthed in northern Iraq as the atrocities committed by Islamic State against the...

Suspected terrorist brother of no-fly-list man By MATTHEW BARAKAT Jan. 30, 2015 12:10 AM EST FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, Gulet Mohamed, left, leaves the federal court in Alexandria, Va., with his attorney, Gadeir Abbas, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, after a...

Top Argentina prosecutor found dead Date January 19, 2015 - 9:50PM Firefighters and rescue workers search through the rubble of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association community centre after the bombing in 1994. Photo: AP An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Kirchner of...

Gunman identified as Jose Garcia Rodriguez opens fire at Florida mall, killing one person and injuring his wife, before turning the weapon on himself, police say Shots ring out in a possible domestic violence incident at food court, police evacuate shopping center. People run in terror as...

Indonesia to execute six drug convicts, including four foreigners, by firing squad PUBLISHED : Friday, 16 January, 2015, 5:23pm UPDATED : Friday, 16 January, 2015, 5:23pm Agence France-Presse in Jakarta Indonesian police patrol maximum security prison Nusa Kambangan in Cilacap, Central Java...

Nine Myanmar men 'killed six of their countrymen in ethnic revenge attack' PUBLISHED : Friday, 16 January, 2015, 3:29am UPDATED : Friday, 16 January, 2015, 3:29am Agence France-Presse in Kuala Lumpur Isis leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi recently encouraged followers worldwide to wage holy wars...

The moment a kidnapped Chinese boy is reunited with his father after 24 years A family reunion comes 24 years after Sun Bin was stolen as a four-year-old and taken to the other side of China Man abducted as a young boy is reunited with father and sister 24 years later, Chengdu City, Sichuan...

UN chief slams India after official proposes building centres to 'make gays normal' PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 13 January, 2015, 3:51pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 13 January, 2015, 7:00pm Agence France-Presse in New Delhi Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community and supporters...

Internet and border monitoring needed to thwart further attacks AFP January 12, 2015, 7:02 am Anti-terror cooperation with Internet firms essential -ministers Anti-terror cooperation with Internet firms 'essential'-ministers Paris (AFP) - Increased Internet surveillance and tighter border...

Philippine police arrest drug trafficker with Taiwan's help Central News Agency 2015-01-07 04:44 PM Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) Police in the Philippines have arrested a suspected smuggler bringing illegal drugs from China to the Philippines with the help of Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation...