Bangladeshi girl seeks help for rare excess hair condition
DHAKA: The family of a 12-year-old Bangladeshi girl who suffers from a rare condition that causes thick hair to cover…
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New era for Brazil as Temer takes power
BRASILIA: Brazil entered a new era Thursday as interim president Michel Temer took power from suspended leader Dilma Rousseff, installing…
Queen delighted at winning supermarket voucher
LONDON: She has several castles and hundreds of millions of pounds in the bank, but Queen Elizabeth II looked delighted…
Wah! East Asian words enter Oxford English Dictionary
HONG KONG: Words most commonly heard on the streets of Hong Kong and Singapore like “yum cha” and “wah” have…
Indonesia mulls microchips for convicted child rapists
JAKARTA: Indonesia is considering microchipping convicted child rapists after the brutal gang rape and murder of a schoolgirl sparked demands…
SWIFT reports new hacker attack against bank
WASHINGTON: Hackers have attacked a bank by gaining access to the world’s largest financial messaging system, used to move billions…
Humble tofu powering Indonesian homes with clean energy
In a dark and steamy room in Indonesia’s tofu heartland three men sweat over bubbling cauldrons, churning creamy beancurd with…
New ‘safe for work’ Playboy courts Facebook generation
LOS ANGELES: It is the legendary party house where John Lennon burned a Matisse original with a cigarette and Elvis reportedly…