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Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong asked the Indian government on Tuesday to tell Mahavir Mandir - an Indian trust - to abandon its plan to build a near-replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple.

Boy survivor of desert hike flies home

[2015-08-11 07:59]

A 9-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.

Pentagon carries on searching for lost war veterans

[2015-08-11 07:59]

Long dead but little forgotten, US soldiers who disappeared across the globe during World War II are being reunited with their loved ones in a dogged push to find and bring home their bodies.

Stinking seaweed piles up on beaches

[2015-08-11 07:59]

The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed that attract biting sand fleas and smell like rotten eggs.

As comet nears Sun, scientists await its secrets

[2015-08-11 07:59]

A comet streaking through space with a European robot lab riding piggyback will skirt the Sun this week in another landmark in the extraordinary quest to unravel the mystery of Earth life.

Around the world

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Australia

Disney says sorry for tweet

[2015-08-11 07:59]

US entertainment giant Disney was forced to apologize after one of its Japanese-language tweets was criticized for being insensitive as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.

Police accused of inaction in child abuse scandal

[2015-08-11 07:59]

Parents at the center of a growing child abuse scandal in Pakistan accused police on Monday of failing to do enough to break up a pedophile ring in Punjab province, the prime minister's political heartland.

Australian guides pilgrimages to 'Death Railway'

[2015-08-11 07:59]

Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II's iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a railway that cost the lives of more than 100,000 Allied prisoners and Asians enslaved by Japan's Imperial Army.

Stampede at Hindu temple leaves 11 dead

[2015-08-11 07:59]

A stampede at a temple during a Hindu religious festival left at least 11 pilgrims dead and dozens injured early on Monday in eastern India, police said.

Prime minister rolls out sweeping reforms after protests over corruption

[2015-08-11 07:59]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed on Sunday scrapping top government posts and curbing privileges in an ambitious reform drive sparked by swelling popular anger over corruption and poor governance.

Attackers flee after firing at US consulate in Istanbul

[2015-08-11 07:59]

Two assailants opened fire at the US consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, fleeing after a gunfight with police, Turkish media reports said.

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