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Woman discovers online ‘friend’ is actually ex-husband The Sideshow June 9, 2013, 9:41 am A divorced Minnesota woman discovered that the man she'd been communicating with online for roughly a year was actually her ex-husband, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The woman has since filed...

Ariel Castro faces 329 charges including kidnap and rape AP NEWS LIMITED NETWORK JUNE 08, 2013 8:38AM Ariel Castro is accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade. Picture: AP Source: AP A MAN accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade has been...

Putin orders crackdown on Islamists, police detain 300 people Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with Russian military officers at the Kremlin in Moscow, June 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Alexei Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin MOSCOW | Fri Jun 7, 2013 2:42pm EDT...

Superman still super at age 75 US superhero marks 75 years as global cultural icon. Last Modified: 06 Jun 2013 19:01 <object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D<embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"...

6 June 2013 Last updated at 06:34 GMT China media: Miners arrested Chinese press say miners from one region flocked to a Ghana "gold rush" The arrest of 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners in Accra, Ghana, is getting front-page coverage in China's newspapers. Ghanaian authorities...

Even after earlier fire, China poultry plant workers didn't query locked doors Police officers detain a protesting family member of a victim of a fire that broke out in a chicken processing plant, outside the poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, Jilin province, June 5, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song By...

Guangzhou grandma puts grandson through airport X-ray Staff Reporter 2013-06-04 08:48 Chen put her grandson, still asleep in his basket, through the X-ray machine at Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport. (Internet photo) A grandmother mistakenly put her grandson through an X-ray machine...

Acer expects touch-screens on up to 80 percent of its products by 2015 By Clare Jim TAIPEI | Mon Jun 3, 2013 6:35am EDT (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc (2353.TW) expects up to 80 percent of its products to use touch-screen technology by next year or the year after, hoping new tablets and...

Irish charity worker, 21, allegedly raped in India: police From: AFP June 03, 2013 11:19PM A gang-rape in New Delhi in December brought simmering anger about endemic sex crime to the surface and led to sometimes violent protests in cities across the country. Picture: Sajjad Hussain POLICE...

Strong Earthquake Jolts Central Taiwan A mountain climber is reported killed as the earthquake sends people running into the streets and sways buildings in the capital. 9:10am Sunday 02 June 2013 Buildings swayed in the capital Taipei A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the island of...

China trying new form of 'Internet censorship' AFP Updated June 2, 2013, 12:11 am BEIJING (AFP) - China is experimenting with more subtle methods to censor Internet search results ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to a group that monitors blocked...

Fatal accident hits US-owned mine in Indonesia AFP June 2, 2013, 1:37 am This file photo taken on May 7, 2009 shows lawmakers inspecting a tunnel at Freeport-McMoRan's mine in Grasberg. An Indonesian man has died in the second fatal accident in around two weeks to hit a US-owned mine in...

US defense chief accuses China of cyber spying AFP Updated June 2, 2013, 1:40 am SINGAPORE (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday accused China of waging cyber espionage against the United States, raising pressure on Beijing over the issue ahead of a key summit between their...

Thousands of anti-austerity protesters march in Frankfurt AFP Updated June 2, 2013, 4:56 am FRANKFURT (AFP) - Police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters who rallied in central Frankfurt on Saturday to voice growing European discontent against tough austerity measures that have been...

Fishmonger Takes Law Into His Own Hands With Shoplifters by Beth on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Netizens have been surprised by the story of an Osaka fishmonger who has decided to take the law into his own hands. Upset by the frequency of shoplifting in his store, the owner decided that he would...

Moscow threatens to speed missiles to Syria but also offers to delay By Thomas Grove MOSCOW | Fri May 31, 2013 12:53pm EDT (Reuters) - Russia could speed up delivery of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria if the West intervenes, but also floated the idea of suspending the shipment, Russian media...

U.S. loosens sanctions on Iran for mobile phones, gadgets Reuters May 31, 2013, 3:57 am By Anna Yukhananov WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States relaxed sanctions on Iran on Thursday to allow American companies to sell mobile phones, software and other technology used for personal...

Fears of exploding ticket machines for German train travellers AP May 30, 201311:16PM GERMAN police are warning rail travellers to be wary when using Deutsche Bahn's automatic ticket machines because criminals attempting to break into them may have left them filled with explosive gas...

Crocodile eats Indonesian man Sam Sem Ledo, family finds his head in river AFP May 30, 201311:23PM CODILE devoured a man as he fished in an eastern Indonesian river but left his head floating in the water where it was discovered by his distraught family, police said Thursday. Sam Sem...