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Passengers strip off as annual No Pants event goes global

[2017-01-10 07:58]

Subway riders around the world got an eyeful when their fellow transit users stripped down to their underwear on Sunday for the annual No Pants Subway Ride.

Grandmother revives tennis dream at 83

[2017-01-10 07:58]

Ana Obarrio de Pereyra Iraola's dream of becoming a tennis star was put on hold in 1949 when her husband stopped her playing.

Saving the desperate at suicide hotspot

[2017-01-10 07:58]

Putting her backpack down, she climbed over the fence and jumped into the rushing waters of the Danube below: the 16 year-old girl was the 29th attempted suicide to be saved by Renato Grbic, a Belgrade fisherman and restaurant owner.

The hidden star of the Soviet space program

[2017-01-09 08:05]

When Galina Balashova designed her first space habitation module for Soviet cosmonauts, she drew a landscape on its interior wall, something that could remind them of home.

Charity warns of UK health 'crisis'

[2017-01-09 08:05]

Britain's health service is engulfed in a "humanitarian crisis" that requires the support of the Red Cross to use Land Rovers to transport patients, the charity said on Saturday.

SeaWorld ending killer whale show after protests and dwindling crowds

[2017-01-09 08:05]

SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show after years of outcry and falling attendance prompted it to renounce theatrical orca displays.

Fortune hunters flock to Madagascar sapphire mines

[2017-01-09 08:05]

The dusty figure is lowered slowly into the ground like a bucket into a well, armed with just a crowbar, a shovel and an old, unreliable headlamp.

Zuma's ex-wife given boost in South Africa leadership race

[2017-01-09 08:05]

The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a boost on Saturday with the endorsement of the ruling party's women's division.

Envoys appointed by Obama asked to quit

[2017-01-07 06:59]

US president-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the US ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday.

Japan to recall ambassador from Seoul over 'comfort women' statue

[2017-01-07 06:59]

Japan said on Friday it was temporarily recalling its ambassador to South Korea over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II which it said violated an agreement to resolve the issue.

Four charged with hate crimes over beating shown on Facebook

[2017-01-07 06:59]

Four African-Americans accused of attacking an 18-year-old man with special needs while making anti-white racial taunts and broadcasting the assault on Facebook were charged with hate crimes in Illinois on Thursday.

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