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Scores missing in South China Sea as typhoon heads for Vietnam
Seventy-four people are missing after three Chinese fishing boats sank in the South China Sea due to stormy weather caused by Typhoon ...Miss Philippines Megan Young crowned Miss World 2013
Miss Philippines Megan Young was crowned the 63 rd Miss World pageant at a ceremony in Indonesia\'s resort island of Bali on ...Twenty dead after refugee boat sinks on way to Australia
A boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia, most of them from the Middle East, has sunk off the Indonesian coast killing at ...Toyota and Nissan issue fresh vehicle recalls
Toyota and Nissan are recalling some 1.5 million vehicles between them. Nissan Motor Co. recalled 908,900 vehicles around the world Thursday for ...UN experts 95% certain humans causing climate change
International scientists are 95 percent sure human activities are the main cause of global warming, an U.N. report to be released Friday ...World Bank approves $140 million for Myanmar electricity
The World Bank said on Tuesday that it will extend a US$140 million interest-free loan to Myanmar to refurbish a power station ...UN holds first high-level meeting on the disabled
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a historic U.N. meeting of world leaders Monday "to break barriers and open doors" for the more than ...25 dead as Typhoon Usagi hits southern China
At least 25 people in southern China have been killed in what has been described as the most powerful storm on earth ...China sentences Bo Xilai to life in prison for corruption
A Chinese court sentenced Bo Xilai to life in prison on Sunday after finding the once powerful Communist Party insider guilty of ...Super typhoon Usagi threatens Taiwan, Northern Philippines, China
The Philippines, Taiwan and southern China are preparing for the arrival of a rapidly intensifying super typhoon.