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Eight cops killed by rogue colleague

[2017-02-04 07:12]

An Afghan police officer turned his rifle on his colleagues in a northern province, killing eight, while a gunman in the country's east fatally shot a cleric and his wife, officials said on Friday.

Zoo's rare liger cub Tsar laps up royal treatment

[2017-02-03 08:09]

His name is fit for a king, and he's being treated like one: Tsar the liger cub, born from an extremely rare lion-tiger romance, is proving a hit for a traveling Russian zoo.

Beyonce takes over the internet with twins news

[2017-02-03 08:09]

Beyonce is pregnant - and this time, she's expecting twins with her husband, rap mogul Jay Z.

Syrian refugees find unlikely home amid volcanoes, glaciers

[2017-02-03 08:09]

The wind blows in icy gusts and the rain gently melts the snow: welcome to Iceland! Far from their hometown Damascus, Joumaa Naser and his family don't mind the Arctic cold, they're just happy to be living in safety.

Campaigners mount last-ditch attempt to save 30 vaquita porpoises left in wild

[2017-02-03 08:09]

Mexico's vaquita marina is edging closer to extinction as scientists warned on Wednesday that only 30 were left despite navy efforts to intercept illegal fishing nets killing the world's smallest porpoise.

Wartime singer to mark 100th birthday with new album

[2017-02-03 08:09]

British singer Vera Lynn will celebrate her 100th birthday by releasing an album of remastered classic songs next month, which could make the wartime singer the first centenarian to hit the UK charts.

Royal Deal

[2017-02-02 07:42]

Dishes that bear myriad influences warm the heart in cold Northeast China. Wu Yong reports from Shenyang, Liaoning province.

Mermaid's Jelly Good Show

[2017-02-01 07:39]

Tang Ying never expected that one day she would become a mermaid and even a jellyfish princess.

Japan ends wait for sumo star

[2017-01-26 07:58]

Japan's excruciating wait for a homegrown yokozuna, or sumo grand champion, ended on Wednesday when 30-year-old Kisenosato was promoted to the ancient sport's highest rank.

'Perfect pepper' conquering world's taste buds

[2017-01-26 07:58]

A nearby sea, flanking mountains, a quartz-rich soil. It's the perfect spot on earth, devotees say, to yield a product they describe in that rapturous vocabulary usually reserved for fine wines: "aristocratic, virile, almost aphrodisiacal," with subtle notes of caramel, gingerbread and mild tobacco.

Instead of chasing storms, researchers create their own

[2017-01-26 07:58]

The sparkling ice spread through a small stand of trees in the White Mountain National Forest so precisely, it could have been applied by Elsa, Disney's Frozen queen. Within the basketball court-size plot, everything glistened. Outside it, branches were bare.

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