HONG KONG, Judith Evans- Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.
Yet aged just 21 and now...
EL-ARISH- Egyptian police in the Sinai Peninsula have seized 190 rockets from which explosives were to have been removed for smuggling into the Gaza Strip, a security official said on Saturday....
JERUSALEM, Marius Schattner- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to personally lead peace talks that start next week and hopes to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas every two weeks,...
THATTA, Emmanuel Duparcq and Hasan Mansoor- Flood-ravaged Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns Thursday as the United Nations vowed to forge ahead with relief operations...
TOKYO- A Japanese research team said Thursday it had developed the world's first 3D television system that allows users to touch, pinch or poke images floating in front of them.
"It is the first...
COLOMBO- A Sri Lankan housemaid has returned home from Saudi Arabia with 24 nails embedded in her body after allegedly being tortured by her employer, officials said Wednesday.
A government...
RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi Arabia's leading supermarket chain has broken the country's strict taboo on women working in public with a pilot programme of women cashiers, a company official said....
CAIRO- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's influential Islamist opposition movement, will launch its own social networking site next month to promote moderate Islam, an official said on Wednesday....
WASHINGTON- The schedules for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay have been altered during Ramadan to ensure they are only fed before sunrise or after sunset, officials said....
LONDON, Robin Millard- Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, making the child only the second born to a serving British premier in 160 years.
Cameron...
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