China will release more water from a dam in its southwestern province of Yunnan to help alleviate a drought in parts of Southeast Asia, China`s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, following an initial release begun last month.
Australia has warned the world that artificially intelligent killer robots "may be closer than many of us had imagined" and nations need to work harder to tackle the future threat they may pose.
The first manned space flight marked a new era in the history of civilization, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's prime minister threatened Tuesday to arrest anyone who repeats opposition accusations that his government used "fake maps" to demarcate the country's border with Vietnam, reviving a campaign of pressure against his foes and critics. Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An was charged Tuesday with two criminal offenses for having made the accusations in Facebook posts last year. Hun Sen — who was foreign minister at the time in a government installed by a Vietnamese... Читать дальше...
Sales of physical books increased for the first time for five years in 2015, driven in part by the adult colouring book craze and not-so-high-end reads like Fifty Shades of Grey.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a man was found shot to death inside a car parked on a West Philadelphia street. Neighbors called police early Tuesday because they thought the man was either asleep or dead. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have not released his name and no arrests have been made.
Many members of OPEC plus outside producers such as Russia are meeting Doha, Qatar, on Sunday to discuss freezing output. The dollar fell to its lowest in nearly eight months against a basket of currencies, supporting commodities.
THE Socceroos’ road to Russia will be a tough one, after they were drawn in a challenging group including long-time foes Japan for the final round of World Cup qualifying.
Police in the town of Guilderland say Cory Ash of Albany was driving on Western Avenue around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday when he hit a guardrail at the intersection of Schoolhouse Road and ended up in a bank parking lot. The crash scene is near where the southern end of the Adirondack Northway meets Western Avenue.
“I was just saying what everyone else was thinking.”
Back in February Kanye West caused uproar when he released the song "Famous," which features the line: "I think me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous."
The line was a reference to this incident in 2009, where Kanye interrupted Taylor's speech at the MTV Video Music Awards to say Beyoncé should have won.
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OSLO, Norway, April 12 (UPI) -- Oil exported from the Kurdish north of Iraq following militant attacks on pipeline infrastructure are back near levels from early 2016, energy company DNO said.
R&B singer The Weeknd gets 16 nominations for this year's Billboard Music Awards, while Justin Bieber gets 11 and Taylor Swift and Adele get eight each.
The US dollar posted a decline against its major peers in recent months due to the Fed's dovishness and recession expectations and this trend is set to deepen in the coming months.
In a first, a team of US researchers has created a bio-solar panel that can generate 5.59 microwatts of energy - a big step in the evolution of bacteria-powered energy to run small devices in remote areas where regular battery replacement is not possible.
The once-in-a-lifetime liquefied natural gas boom off the coast of Western Australia will not deliver any significant royalties to federal government coffers for at least two decades, according to a report.
TV and radio personality Sammy Lehoko‚ popularly known as Sammy Sosa‚ has come under fire by Twitter users‚ over comments she made about popular international movement #BlackGirlsRock.
The Sports Minister has never demonstrated why the preference of the majority of Sydney rugby league clubs would be so terrible.
Canberra businesses will benefit from a new deal signed with Singapore's peak business network.
LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's public prosecutor has filed charges that could bring a prison sentence of more than 10 years against a policeman who beat a middle-aged football fan in front of his two young sons, with the video of the incident causing a national scandal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to come for the third time for campaigning in Bengal this weekend.
Eli Manning’s not used to being the only Manning playing football. So he’s anticipating even more contact than before, now that his brother Peyton has retired. “He might be calling me a little bit more than normal,” the Giants quarterback said, via Ebenezer Samuel of the New York Daily News. “Just to kind of talk football…
