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'Genius girl' wins world championship

The 22-year-old Chinese chess star Hou Yifan has been crowned the new world champion on Monday after winning the Women World Chess Championship final match, held in Ukraine's western city of Lviv.

Computer wins final game against Go master

The Google supercomputer AlphaGo won the final game of its five-match challenge against South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol on Tuesday, to take the series 4-1.

U Htin Kyaw of ruling party elected president

U Htin Kyaw from Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the presidential election on Tuesday through a secret ballot, thus becoming the country's new president for the next five-year term.

Herders suffer as cattle trade shut to fight Boko Haram

A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war.

Horse-sized relative shows how T. rex became 'king of dinosaurs'

A newly discovered cousin of the T. rex may explain how the legendary dinosaur leapt in size to become undisputed king of the food chain, scientists said on Monday.

Men embrace femininity, take comfort in 'genderless' clothing

No stranger to barrettes, bows and beauty products, Japanese Instagram icon and model Genking is a proud flag bearer for "genderless" fashion in which young men adopt unequivocally feminine styles and challenge traditional norms.

Number of child workers declines

The number of child laborers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said the country's labor minister, urging lawmakers to approve planned changes to existing legislation to curb the problem.

Russia begins 'positive' military withdrawal

Russia began withdrawing its forces from Syria on Tuesday, a move hailed as a potentially "positive step" for a new round of UN-backed peace talks seeking to end the conflict.

Killer makes Nazi salute in court

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik kicked off his return to court on Tuesday by making a Nazi salute during his bid to improve conditions inside the Norwegian prison where he is being held in isolation for massacring 77 people in 2011.

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Mental health rules 'need review'

Seeking to ensure that suicidal pilots can't crash their jets, French authorities investigating last year's Germanwings crash are urging new reporting requirements for doctors treating pilots, and new measures to keep pilots from hiding mental health issues.