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Hamilton, Rosberg return to scene of furious battle

[2015-04-18 08:13]

Just days after their latest spat following Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg return this weekend to the scene of one of their most dramatic on-track battles at the Bahrain GP.

Search zone for missing plane may be doubled

[2015-04-17 07:17]

The search zone for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be doubled if nothing is found in the huge undersea area now being scanned for wreckage, Malaysia, Australia and China announced on Thursday.

Hindus push for expanded ban

[2015-04-17 07:17]

Every morning just before dawn, hundreds of trucks loaded with buffaloes trundle into New Delhi's sprawling slaughterhouse complex where young men rush to unload the bellowing cargo. Skidding on heaps of dung, they pull the animals out of the trucks, herding them for the daily auction and eventual slaughter. The work is hard, and the money at the end of it is poor.

Deal cut to ship uranium fuel to India

[2015-04-17 07:17]

The Canadian government on Wednesday unveiled a C$350 million ($280 million) deal to supply uranium fuel to India, formally ending a lengthy dispute that began after New Delhi used Canadian technology to develop a nuclear bomb.

UN special envoy steps down amid strife

[2015-04-17 07:17]

The UN's special envoy to Yemen has stepped down after four years of efforts at a peaceful political transition in the Arab world's poorest country, even as it fell apart amid a Shiite rebel uprising and Saudi-led airstrikes.

Anti-graft crackdown reveals white-collar fraud, 'economic mafia'

[2015-04-17 07:17]

Ringed with snipers and sandbag bunkers, the makeshift office of a Kabul academic spearheading President Ashraf Ghani's unprecedented anti-corruption drive could be mistaken for a military garrison.

IN BRIEF (Page 11)

[2015-04-17 07:17]

France was in shock on Thursday after a 9-year-old girl was found dead in the woods shortly after being snatched in front of her mother from a playground in the northern city of Calais.

Families shun memorial

[2015-04-17 07:17]

South Korea's president vowed to raise the sunken Sewol ferry on Thursday, but failed to appease grieving relatives on the anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives, most of them schoolchildren.

US presses Cuba on 1970s fugitives

[2015-04-17 07:17]

The United States and Cuba will open talks about two longtime fugitives as part of a new dialogue about law-enforcement cooperation made possible by President Barack Obama's decision to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terror, the State Department announced on Wednesday.

Armenian massacre genocide, says vote

[2015-04-17 07:17]

The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday that calls the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces "genocide".

Three new lizard species found

[2015-04-16 07:50]

Three new species of multicolored lizards sporting jagged crests that make them look like miniature "Godzillas" have been discovered in Ecuador and Peru, highlighting the region's rich biodiversity.

Reggae legend swaps his beats for books

[2015-04-16 07:50]

His voice is warm, his reading poised. Adored by reggae fans everywhere, Ivorian superstar Alpha Blondy has now become a storyteller on his own radio station.

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