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Uber taxi driver was longtime criminal

[2014-12-11 07:55]

The Uber taxi driver being held on suspicion of raping a passenger in India is a repeat criminal who was out on bail for sexually assaulting a woman, Indian police said, raising fresh concerns about the safety of using the US web-based cab company.

Another lawsuit pressures company

[2014-12-11 07:55]

Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued Uber on Tuesday over the ride-booking company's background checks of drivers and other allegations, adding to the popular startup company's worldwide legal woes.

IN BRIEF (Page 11)

[2014-12-11 07:55]

The document on a regional railway designed to link China with Iran via Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, was signed, Tajikistan's Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday.

US probe details detainee brutality

[2014-12-11 07:55]

The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make the country safer after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, Senate investigators have concluded.

Palestinian minister dies after beating

[2014-12-11 07:55]

A senior Palestinian minister died on Wednesday after being assaulted by Israeli border police during a protest march in the West Bank, medical and security sources said.

Comedians strike a chord in Cuba

[2014-12-10 08:02]

Panfilo, the elderly protagonist in a weekly show on Cuban television, has a broken water pipe in his house. When the city repair worker says it'll take six months to fix, Panfilo bribes her with a bottle of shampoo and the repair is made the following day.

Art sends participants to sleep

[2014-12-10 08:02]

As night settles over India's capital, a dozen volunteers lie in soundproof cubicle tents, playing soothing music via Skype to try and lull to sleep collaborators in a German city halfway across the world.

Beef dish serves as economic gauge

[2014-12-10 08:02]

Japanese fast-food company Yoshinoya Holdings Co said on Tuesday it would raise the price of its signature beef bowl dish - long a symbol of the deflationary economy - for the first time in 24 years because of higher import costs.

Kate visits NYC kids; William joins Obama on packed first day of visit

[2014-12-10 08:02]

Britain's Prince William sat down with President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and unveiled an effort to curtail illegal wildlife trading, while his wife, Kate, made an impression as a down-to-earth duchess with preschoolers and prominent British expats in New York.

Scientist criticizes Hollywood-style shark hunts

[2014-12-10 08:02]

Western Australia's controversial shark-culling policy has been influenced by Jaws and other Hollywood films, an Australian academic said on Tuesday.

Australia dumps healthcare changes

[2014-12-10 08:02]

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott abandoned a plan on Tuesday to radically reshape Australia's universal healthcare system by charging patients a fee to see their doctor, a major flip backward for his struggling conservative government.

Japan's right-wing media, government 'stifling liberal voices'

[2014-12-10 09:09]

A chill wind is blowing through Japan's media as a resurgent political right wing pressures the country's liberal voices in what analysts say presents a threat to democracy as voters head to the polls for a general election.

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