Ex-actuary caters healthier, easier Chinese cuisine

Americans have long had a love for Chinese food.

Children of 'RedDuchess' claim disputed $36-million inheritance

The multi-million-euro fortune of Spain's "Red Duchess", which includes an Andalusian palace, has been divided between her three children and her widow after a legal wrangle.

From ghost city to boomtown, Phnom Penh soars high

From glitzy malls and high-rise flats to five-star hotels, a luxury building boom in Phnom Penh is transforming a capital once reduced to a ghost town into one of Asia's fastest growing cities.

Error coin, a US dime struck onto a nail, to be auctioned

Is it a dime? Or is it a nail?

Local furious over Delhi pollution

For 12 hours a day, Raju Misra stands at his snack stall in the world's ultimate pollution black spot, inhaling toxic fumes and railing against India's politicians for failing to clean up the filthy air.

Israel airstrike kills longest-serving Lebanese prisoner

Samir Kantar, a Lebanese who was convicted of executing one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in an Israeli prison, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building near the Syrian capital, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group said on Sunday.

Newcomer parties set for poll gains

Spaniards voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election in which newcomer parties are expected to make big gains against the once-dominant conservatives and Socialists, ushering in a new and potentially volatile era of compromise politics.

Turkey says will continue to move troops

Turkey has acknowledged a "miscommunication" with Iraq over its deployment of troops to the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

PM wants women training for front line in 2016

Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted to see female British soldiers training to fight on the front line in 2016.

39 rescued, scores missing as waves sink boat

Rescuers have pulled out 39 survivors and three dead from a passenger boat that sank in central Indonesia after being buffeted by high waves, and were battling bad weather on Sunday to reach scores of others still missing.

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Culture war brews over iconic figurine

For years, South Africa's apartheid government ignored the significance of a "golden rhino" figurine that provides undeniable proof of a sophisticated society existing before white men arrived.