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New chapter at school for grannies

Literacy rate in India has grown to 74 percent, but not for female

Indian minister's 'hormonal' women comment sparks ridicule

Female students need curfews to protect them from their own "hormonal outbursts", India's women's minister has said, sparking ridicule on social media.

Twin sisters, 97, fall and freeze to death together

BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND - Ninety-seven-year-old twins Jean Young Haley and Martha Young Williams left the world as they entered it: together.

Anger over THAAD in peaceful village

SEONGJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA - When they heard the news that Lotte had signed a contract with the Defense Ministry to exchange its golf course for military land, they fell into great panic. The bad feeling lasted for days, making the naive, old farmers wandering what to do.

Tunnel reveals assault course for IS fighters

SOUTH OF MOSUL, IRAQ - The mouth of the tunnel is hardly visible on a muddy hillside overlooking Mosul, where fighting now rages between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants.

Trump signs new travel order, exempting Iraqis

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order on Monday banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the United States but removing Iraq from the list, after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts.

Bill unveiled to replace Obamacare

The US Republican Party on Monday unveiled a healthcare bill that it says will replace the Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, taking a step further in trashing what former president Barack Obama hoped would be his biggest legacy.

Malaysia, DPRK slap exit bans as dispute escalates

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Tuesday that he had instructed police to ban all citizens from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from leaving the country after Pyongyang announced a similar ban.

Surgeons remove 915 coins from sea turtle

BANGKOK - Tossing coins in a fountain for luck is a popular superstition, but a similar belief brought misery to a sea turtle in Thailand from whom doctors have removed 915 coins.

Poachers kill rare giant elephant in Kenya

NAIROBI - One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group that protects the dwindling group of giant "tuskers".

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