Wedding bus a new fad among China’s newly-weds
Adorned with red ribbons on the nose and paper cuttings of auspicious Chinese characters on the windows, a public electric…
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Australian authorities say more Sydney schools tainted with asbestos
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An asbestos contamination in Sydney widened on Sunday, with authorities saying the toxic material had been detected…
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake shakes Mexico resort town Acapulco
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit near the Mexican resort town of Acapulco on the Pacific coast…
Thai tycoon Thaksin tastes freedom in homeland, 15 years after fleeing
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday after six months in detention,…
Navalny’s wife should keep his voice alive, Litvinenko widow says
LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, needs to keep her husband's voice alive, the widow of…
Australian authorities say more Sydney sites tainted with asbestos
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian authorities said on Saturday asbestos had been discovered in more places in Sydney, including housing estates, as…
Tobago’s tourism, fishing hit as oil slick spreads across Caribbean
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (Reuters) -Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak…
Brazil, Venezuela offering help with oil spill, says Trinidad Prime Minister
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago is considering declaring an international emergency to deal with an oil spill…
Zelenskiy urges allies to plug ‘artificial’ weapons shortage to stop Putin
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged allies on Saturday to plug what he pointedly characterised as an "artificial"…