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Chinese earthquake rescue

China is continuing a massive rescue operation in Sichuan province, with thousands of workers, after a powerful earthquake on Saturday...
Feb 04,2014

Texas blast investigation

The authorities in the town of West in Texas are continuing to investigate what caused the blast at a fertiliser factory, which is now known to have killed 14 people and injured dozens more. The area surrounding the plant is still sealed off by police...
Feb 04,2014

Ex-Prime Minister Thatcher dies

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died. ..
Feb 04,2014

Obama's brain project

US President Barack Obama has launched a $100m project to map the "enormous mystery" of the human brain. He hopes the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) project will help us understand how the brain works and learn more about diseases such as Alzheimer's...
Feb 04,2014

Monitoring microblogs

If you write something politically sensitive on China's microblogs, or Weibo, how quickly might it be deleted? Researchers in the United States have been looking into the issue and found some surprising results...
Feb 04,2014

Chavez's body to be preserved and displayed

The body of President Hugo Chavez is to go on permanent display in a military museum in Venezuela, like many socialist leaders before him...
Feb 04,2014

Wikileaks soldier reveals why he shared secrets

The US soldier accused of giving large numbers of secret documents to Wikileaks has admitted he is guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. But he denied a more serious charge of aiding the enemy...
Feb 04,2014

Hotel living

A Hong Kong hotel has sold individual rooms to be used as homes. It's one of the ways residents are trying to cope with soaring housing prices, which are among the highest in the world...
Feb 04,2014

UN rejects claims from cholera victims

The United Nations has formally rejected damage claims from lawyers working on behalf of the victims of the cholera epidemic in Haiti. UN peacekeepers have been accused of introducing the disease to the country, which has infected more than 600,000 people and killed around 8,000 since 2010...
Feb 04,2014

Sri Lankan religious tensions

A new Sinhalese Buddhist group in Sri Lanka has called for the abolition of Muslim laws about how certain foods should be prepared. This comes at a time of rising religious tension in the country...
Feb 04,2014