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SWEDEN: It’s the size of a grain of rice but could hold the key to many aspects of your life. A tiny microchip inserted under the skin can replace the need to carry keys, credit cards and train tickets.

Getting under the skin

INDIA: Since he was a boy, Soumyaranjan Biswal has kept a night vigil at the beach near his coastal Indian village where tens of thousands of tiny olive ridley turtles gather to lay their eggs.

India’s sea turtle warriors

Britain's Prince Harry and US TV star Meghan Markle tie the knot on today (May 19) in a globally-watched ceremony at Windsor Castle filled with traditional pomp and modern twists.

Prince Harry to marry Meghan Markle as world watches

A Cuban state airways plane with 110 passengers and crew on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana on Friday, leaving a mass of twisted and smoldering fuselage, as the country's president warned many people were feared dead.

More than 100 feared dead in Cuba airliner crash

Red alert raised after ash bursts from Hawaii volcano

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Wednesday 16 May 2018, 09:57AM

UNITED STATES: A massive plume of volcanic ash burst from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on yesterday (May 15), prompting authorities to issue warnings about air quality and the likelihood of a major eruption.

In Gaza, a day of blood and sorrow overshadows US embassy move

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Tuesday 15 May 2018, 09:37AM

ISRAEL: At Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, people search desperately for loved ones. Some already know they are dead and grimly work their way through bodies.

‘Expanding the beautiful’: Tokyo’ s digital art museum with artwork that envelops, interacts with visitors

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Sunday 13 May 2018, 01:00PM

JAPAN: The waterfall appears to run down the wall of a room and across the floor, but the flow is an illusion – a digital exhibit at a new interactive museum in Tokyo.

America’s cold case culture

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Sunday 13 May 2018, 10:30AM

UNITED STATES: US detectives analysed DNA to capture the former policeman alleged to be the notorious “Golden State Killer” – but it was a book that sparked renewed interest in the murders.

Mexican factory churning out Messi, Neymar masks

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Saturday 12 May 2018, 11:00AM

MEXICO: A Mexican factory is churning out rubber Neymars, Messis and Ronaldos ahead of the World Cup, racing to meet demand for life-like masks of a dream team of football giants.

Seven found dead at Australian rural property

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Saturday 12 May 2018, 09:33AM

AUSTRALIA: Four children and three adults were found dead at a rural property near the Margaret River wine region in Western Australia yesterday (May 11) in an apparent murder-suicide. If confirmed as a mass shooting, the incident will be the worst in Australia since the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur in Tasmania that left 35 people dead.

Malaysia’s Mahathir wins shock election victory, toppling 61-yr-old regime

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Thursday 10 May 2018, 09:01AM

MALAYSIA: Malaysia’s veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad, 92, won a shock election victory yesterday (May 9) in a political earthquake that toppled the country’s scandal-plagued premier and ousted a regime that has ruled for over six decades.

From vigilantes to gangsters

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Sunday 6 May 2018, 02:00PM

BRAZIL: They’re seldom mentioned by officials and are almost never identified, but paramilitary groups are increasingly embedded in Rio de Janeiro – and, with the slaying of a prominent politician last month, are ever more brazen.

Afghanistan’s camel power

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Sunday 6 May 2018, 11:30AM

AFGHANISTAN: Old Afghan men looking to soothe their aching joints or enrich their rice dishes stand around a tiny shop where they are lulled by a camel’s steady steps as sesame oil flows into a plastic bucket.

Major quake hits Hawaii, prompts further volcano eruptions

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Saturday 5 May 2018, 09:07AM

HAWAII: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook Hawaii’s Big Island today (May 5), prompting fresh eruptions of a volcano that has been spewing lava near residential areas, forcing hundreds of people to flee.

Basque separatists ETA announce dissolution

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Thursday 3 May 2018, 09:46AM

SPAIN: Basque separatist group ETA has announced it is fully disbanding, marking the definitive end to its deadly independence campaign and to western Europe’s last armed insurgency.

Whistle-blowing Myanmar policeman sentenced to jail

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Monday 30 April 2018, 04:20PM

MYANMAR: A Myanmar police officer who told a court his colleagues had tried to “entrap” two Reuters journalists has been handed a prison term, a police spokesman said today (Apr 30).

Nuggets of contention

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Sunday 29 April 2018, 02:30PM

CAMEROON: Killings, land grabs, corruption... tensions and violence are rising in eastern Cameroon as Chinese firms take advantage of a regulatory twilight zone to mine gold.

India’s Hindu-Muslim divide

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Sunday 29 April 2018, 11:45AM

INDIA: The internet is being cut for hours on end in Jammu as authorities try to halt protests that have grown in the Kashmir winter capital since the rape-murder of an 8-year-old girl opened a new front in India’s Hindu-Muslim divide.

A Syrian dancer’s journey from hell to the Paris stage

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Saturday 28 April 2018, 01:30PM

FRANCE: Yara al-Hasbani was putting the finishing touches to her make-up for a performance of “Romeo and Juliet” in Damascus when she found out her father had been tortured to death. It was the moment the dancer’s world turned upside down.

North and South Korea begin historic summit

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Friday 27 April 2018, 09:15AM

KOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in sat down to a historic summit today (Apr 27) after shaking hands over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries in a gesture laden with symbolism.

Van ploughs into Toronto crowd, killing nine

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Tuesday 24 April 2018, 09:39AM

CANADA: A man ploughed a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada’s biggest city Toronto today (Apr 24), killing at least nine people and wounding 16, police said.

Trapped in a twilight zone

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Sunday 22 April 2018, 01:45PM

DR CONGO: Hundreds of former child fighters in Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile Kasai region face an uncertain future, spurned by their families and their dreams brutally shattered.

When ‘kushti’ is a way of life

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Sunday 22 April 2018, 11:30AM

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Every Friday evening in Dubai’s bustling Deira district, a sandy lot is transformed into the ring of champions. It is kushti wrestling night and Kala Pehlwan is ready to fight.

N. Korea’s Kim promises no more nuclear or missile tests

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Saturday 21 April 2018, 03:03PM

NORTH KOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would halt nuclear tests and intercontinental missile launches, in an announcement made today and welcomed by US President Donald Trump ahead of a much-anticipated summit between the two men.

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