May 23, 2013 5:32 PMKATHMANDU (AFP) - Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said on Thursday. ...
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May 23, 2013 12:23 PMKATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:10 AMLONDON (AFP) - The British soldier butchered on the streets of London by two suspected Islamists was a 25-year-old father who had fought the Taleban in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:20 AMLONDON (REUTERS) - Strapping his baby into a car seat, Mr Abu Khaled said it was unfortunate that a British soldier was hacked to death in an apparent Islamist attack a day earlier in London, but it was not the only misfortune on...
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May 24, 2013 12:57 AMMAINBOARD-LISTED Changjiang Fertilizer Holdings on Wednesday night robustly refuted Chinese media reports that it is involved in illegal deposit-taking, that it has defaulted on its bank loans or that it owes wages to its workers. ...
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May 24, 2013 12:53 AMUNIVERSITY student "CK" is interning at an advertising agency and has fallen ill several times because he has to work until the wee hours almost every other day with little sleep. ...
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May 24, 2013 12:30 AMThe soldier killed on the streets of southeast London on Wednesday has been identified by the UK Ministry of Defence as Drummer Lee Rigby, 26, a fusilier who had served stints in Cyprus and Afghanistan, and a father of a two-year-old...
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May 24, 2013 12:30 AMThe soldier killed on the streets of southeast London on Wednesday has been identified by the UK Ministry of Defence as Lee Rigby, 25, a fusilier who had served stints in Cyprus and Afghanistan, and a father of a two-year-old boy. ...
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May 23, 2013 10:12 PMATHENS (AFP) - Greece could be rewarded with another cut in its debt by its international creditors if it continues to apply the terms of its economic recovery, euro zone chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Thursday. ...
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May 23, 2013 4:21 PMKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's cricket board says gunmen have kidnapped the father of its national team captain. ...
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May 22, 2013 5:43 PMKATMANDU (AP) - An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who climbed Mount Everest five years ago, but just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit, was back on the mountain on Wednesday to make another attempt at the title. ...
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May 22, 2013 3:23 PMKATHMANDU (AFP) - An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest, expedition organisers said on Wednesday. ...
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May 22, 2013 5:54 AMKATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest said she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves. ...
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May 21, 2013 3:58 PMKATHMANDU (AFP) - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said on Tuesday. ...
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May 24, 2013 9:24 AMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising sales, a source told Reuters. ...
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May 24, 2013 9:13 AMA SIX-MINUTE video showing the stars of the movie Fast & Furious 6 astounded by car prices in Singapore has been shared rapidly around the world. ...
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May 24, 2013 9:18 AMIT SERVICE providers can look forward to securing $1.2 billion worth of IT contracts from the Government this year. ...
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May 24, 2013 9:17 AMA VIDEO intended to encourage Singaporeans to save water has been derided by netizens - with one branding it "an all-time low". ...
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May 24, 2013 8:51 AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (REUTERS) - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled shows. ...
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May 24, 2013 9:39 AMDevotees raising their eyes skywards to the towering stupas and grand ornamental roofs at the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery may miss the 40 little Buddha stone sculptures sprinkled on a grassy lawn in the premises, before...
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May 24, 2013 8:40 AMLOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US jury failed on Thursday to agree on whether to sentence Jodi Arias to death for the grisly killing of her boyfriend in 2008, after a trial which has gripped America. ...
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May 24, 2013 8:47 AMWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, a step toward his goal of closing the US military-run prison that he said "has become a symbol around the...
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May 24, 2013 8:19 AMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) - President Barack Obama has shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on terror," restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America's long struggle against Al Qaeda will one...
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May 24, 2013 7:25 AMLONDON (AFP) - Germany is the most popular country in the world despite well-publicised protests against its insistence on austerity measures within the European Union, an annual poll for the BBC World Service revealed on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 8:10 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama said he had approved strict rules for when the United States can carry out drone strikes against terror suspects abroad, saying lethal force could be used when no other alternatives exist. ...
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May 24, 2013 8:12 AMZURICH (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Switzerland for talks set to focus on a landmark free trade deal with the Alpine country, which he has dubbed a touchstone for Beijing's growing ties with foreign nations. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:39 AMNEW YORK (REUTERS) - A first edition copy of F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, will be up for sale next month and could fetch up to US$150,000 (S$189,000), Sotheby's said on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 7:12 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) said on Thursday it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation but maintain a ban on gay adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in Texas. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:58 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States (US) is gearing up for more Atlantic hurricanes than usual this year, triggered by warmer water temperatures than average, US forecasters said on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:34 AM LONDON (AFP) - One of the two suspected Islamists accused of hacking a British soldier to death in London was a convert who regularly attended sermons by banned Islamist preacher Omar Bakri, an associate of Bakri said on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:26 AM MOORE, Oklahoma (AFP) - Monday's tornado in this Oklahoma City suburb damaged or destroyed 1,200 homes and affected 33,000 people, officials said on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:13 AMMONACO (AP) - Finishing fastest in both of Thursday's practice sessions for the Monaco Grand Prix isn't enough to get Nico Rosberg too excited. He knows Mercedes has yet to prove it can last the pace on race day. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:14 AM SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) - Shares of Apple supplier Cirrus Logic slumped 18 per cent on Thursday after the chipmaker said in a filing it faces growing pricing pressure in the smartphone market. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:29 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) - The H7N9 strain of bird flu can spread among ferrets and could do the same among humans under certain conditions, according to lab animal studies on the virus published on Thursday. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:36 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - Cockroaches will eat anything. Except sugar, that is. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:28 AMSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory...
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May 24, 2013 6:11 AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (REUTERS) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle...
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May 24, 2013 6:05 AM NEW YORK (AFP) - Chinese regulators have approved the Boeing 787 to fly in the country, Boeing said on Thursday, a move that opens up a large potential market to the United States (US) aerospace giant. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:19 AM NEW YORK (AFP) - Online retail titan Amazon announced on Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world", and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:07 AMSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo pressed on with its shopping spree on Thursday with the acquisition of a startup that powers games played on smartphones, tablets, consoles or personal computers. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:24 AM NEW YORK (AFP) - A massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed on New York's Times Square. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:22 AMNEW YORK (AP) - Nick Carter isn't only writing songs - he's written a book. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:07 AMGENEVA (AP) - World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said on Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample. ...
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May 24, 2013 6:07 AMSTOCKHOLM (AFP) - Stockholm police called in reinforcements as the Swedish capital braced for a fifth night of riots on Thursday in its immigrant-dominated suburbs, where rioters torched cars and attacked local stations overnight. ...
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May 24, 2013 3:40 AMA STRATEGIC review of town councils is set to kick off soon with a consultation process, Senior Minister of State for National Development Lee Yi Shyan said yesterday. ...
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May 24, 2013 3:44 AMA SIX-MINUTE video showing the stars of the movie Fast & Furious 6 astounded by car prices in Singapore has been shared rapidly around the world. ...
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May 24, 2013 12:53 AMCANBERRA - Ford Motor will close its Australian car manufacturing plants in October 2016 after about nine decades in the country, blaming a strong currency and costs that are hitting manufacturers just as the country looks for other...
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May 24, 2013 12:53 AMBEIJING - China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as new orders fell, a preliminary survey showed, entrenching fears that its economic recovery has stalled and that a sharper cooldown may be imminent. ...
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May 24, 2013 12:53 AMTOKYO - Nissan Motor will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, due to a steering wheel glitch, Japan's No. 2 carmaker said yesterday. ...
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May 24, 2013 12:54 AMVIENNA - Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear programme, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new United Nations atomic agency report showed. ...
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