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South Korean ferry rescue efforts failing to find survivors
South Korean divers resumed searching Thursday for 268 people - many of them teenagers - missing nearly 24 hours after an ocean-going ...Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez dies at 87
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died Thursday in Mexico City ...Scientists discover most earth-like planet
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that\'s similar in size ...At least twelve dead in Mount Everest avalanche
Twelve Nepalese guides are dead and three people are missing in an avalanche on Mount Everest, a Nepal tourism official says.Vietnam says it will not host Asian Games
Vietnam says it has decided against hosting the 2019 Asian Games due to financial reasons and is exploring procedures to withdraw from ...Algerians vote for new president
Algerian voters went to the polls Thursday in an election marked by questions over the incumbent president\'s health and anger over his ...Putin says hopes will not have to use force in eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he has "a right" to send troops into Ukraine but hopes he will "not have to ...Search and rescue continues for 290 missing in sunken ferry in South Korea
The search continues for 290 people still unaccounted for after ferry carrying more than 460 people capsized off the southwestern coast of ...Journalists charged with defaming Thai navy
Thai authorities on Thursday charged two journalists with defaming Thailand\'s navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from ...Pro-Russian separatists seize Ukrainian armoured vehicles
Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv suffered a serious setback Wednesday in their efforts to restore order in the troubled east of the country ...