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Engineers have high hopes for cheetah robot

[2014-12-02 07:49]

It's a robot unlike any other, inspired by the world's fastest land animal and controlled by video game technology.

Seeking good life, family found only trash

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Six months ago, Marjina stepped off a train in New Delhi with her two children, hoping to find a better life after her husband abandoned them without so much as a goodbye.

Afghanistan stepping up operation to beat Taliban

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani plans to fire senior civilian and military leaders in the country's most volatile provinces to reinvigorate the battle against the Taliban insurgency, officials said.

Waterborne disease takes toll on Islamic State-held city in Iraq

[2014-12-02 07:49]

When Islamic State fighters swept into northern Iraq's second city of Mosul in a lightning June offensive, their propaganda trumpeted a better life for the people under jihadist rule.

Internet improves education for Bangladesh's rural children

[2014-12-02 07:49]

A charming, yet revolutionary, television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas. It shows students being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in Dhaka, the capital, via the Internet.

Australia opens door to nuclear energy

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday opened the door to the use of nuclear energy as Australia faces growing pressure to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions.

Clock ticking for pledges to cut carbon emissions

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Negotiators from more than 190 countries gathered in Lima on Monday for the last main stop of the UN climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year.

Climate finance rules still allow coal plants

[2014-12-02 07:49]

The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change.

Overseas criticism pours in on Ferguson

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot a black teenager dead in Ferguson, Missouri, has resigned, but his resignation has not halted the unrest that followed a grand jury decision to not indict him.

City wakes up to explosions and gunfire in Nigeria

[2014-12-02 07:49]

Explosions and gunfire rocked the northern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Monday, in a suspected Boko Haram attack that targeted police, according to residents.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2014-12-02 07:49]

South Korean President Park Geun-hye hit out on Monday at "groundless" rumors circling her administration, some of which have touched on her personal life and triggered defamation suits against domestic and foreign media outlets.

Despite US promises, Africa waits for power

[2014-12-01 07:33]

US President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd last year in Cape Town, South Africa, that a $7 billion plan, Power Africa, would double electrical output on the world's poorest continent and bring "light where currently there is darkness".

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