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Germany brings incredible gold hoard home
| Joern Bender | FRANKFURT (dpa) – Germany is slowly bringing home its gold, lodged outside the country in vaults in New York, Paris and London during the years of the Cold War. Germany’s...
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Aussie man, who woke from coma speaking Chinese, finds TV match
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian man who woke from a coma speaking fluent Mandarin has found love on a Chinese dating show. Ben McMahon was involved in a serious car accident in 2013 which left him in a...
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Brazil’s Zika-related abortion debate sparks backlash
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Before her son was born, Danielle Alves didn’t know Luiz Gustavo would have microcephaly, a condition that has left the three-year-old so disabled he can’t walk, talk or eat...
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Brazil unleashes all-out war against Zika virus
| Georg Ismar | RIO DE JANEIRO (dpa) – Carnival is over and now, with full force, the problem of the spreading Zika virus is dominating public life in Brazil. It remains unproven that the...
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Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs
| Jean-Louis Santini | WASHINGTON (AFP) – Advances in artificial intelligence will soon lead to robots that are capable of nearly everything humans do, threatening tens of millions of jobs in...
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‘Coworking’ grows amid search for new office lifestyle
| Rob Lever | WASHINGTON (AFP) – When Lance Macon started his real estate consulting firm, he did not want a traditional office. But he wasn’t going to work out of his home or a coffee shop...
View ArticleA century after ‘Dada’, Zurich museum recreates lost work
ZURICH (AFP) – A century after Dadaism was founded in Zurich, a prestigious museum in the city is hosting an exhibit that aims to recreate one of the rebellious artistic movement’s great but unfinished...
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London housing crisis coming to a crunch
| Robin Millard | LONDON (AFP) – Londoners are getting desperate over rising rents, with residents and students taking to the streets and social media over the cramped conditions tenants are...
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Tea in the Highlands? ‘Mad’ grower tends blooming crop
AMULREE, United Kingdom (AFP) – Tam O’Braan has had several lives. Having been a soldier, an agronomist and an entrepreneur, he now grows tea in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, and is the envy...
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Afghans skirt strict rules to find love on social media
| Lynne O’Donnell | KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan civil activist Hadi Sadiqi had long been using social media to share news, commentary and his own musings on politics when he got into a...
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Tragic tales of loss as search for quake survivors ends
TAIPEI (AFP) – As rescuers in Taiwan said they had retrieved all the missing from the ruins of a building felled by an earthquake, a tragic picture emerged of the cross-section of society killed in the...
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‘Monday Afternoon Fever’ in S Korea’s old-age discos
SEOUL (AFP) – As the mercury outside plunges to minus 10 degrees on an ice-cold Monday afternoon, the dance floor inside the Kukilgwan Palace is packed with grey-haired Korean couples moving to the...
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HSBC bank stays in London, snubbing Hong Kong
LONDON (AFP) – Europe’s largest bank HSBC said Sunday it would remain headquartered in Britain, rejecting a move to Hong Kong despite concerns about increased regulation in the UK and a possible split...
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50pc off all Vono mattresses
VONO mattresses are now on sale. The two range are Maya SpinePro series mattress models – SpinePro 800 and SpinePro 1200 – and Vono Ergonomics mattress models called ErgoBed 1200. According to a press...
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Welbeck late show breaks Leicester hearts
LONDON (AFP) – Substitute Danny Welbeck scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Arsenal resurrected their Premier League title challenge with a heart-stopping 2-1 Valentine’s Day victory over leaders...
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Eriksen ignites Tottenham’s title bid
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) – Christian Eriksen marked his 24th birthday with a late goal as Tottenham Hotspur won 2-1 at Manchester City on Sunday to climb to within two points of the Premier...
View ArticleFuming Pellegrini slams referee over Tottenham penalty
LONDON (Reuters) – Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini could face disciplinary action from the English Football Association after the Chilean criticised referee Mark Clattenburg in the wake of...
View ArticleNFABD Congress put off
THE National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (NFABD) would like to inform that after the 3rd Exco meeting yesterday, the Exco decided to postpone the 6th NFABD’s Extraordinary Congress 2016...
View ArticleRimba Royals put aside differences to claim 4th
| Fadhil Yunus | RIMBA Royals can hold their heads up high after placing fourth in the Under-15 category of the Jerudong International School (JIS) Netball Funday despite a lack of...
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Sturridge leads Liverpool in 6-0 rout of Aston Villa
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom (AFP) – Liverpool ran riot in a 6-0 hammering of Aston Villa at Villa Park on Sunday as the Premier League’s bottom club went into meltdown. Daniel Sturridge made a dream...
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