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Twitter begins plans for Stock Market listing
Twitter has announced it has filed paperwork with US regulators ahead of a planned stock market flotation.China sentences 3 to death over Xinjiang unrest
China has sentenced three men to death over a June attack in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang blamed on Islamic extremists ...Taliban attack US consulate in Afghanistan
Militants launched an assault on the heavily guarded U.S. consulate in Herat, a city in western Afghanistan near the Iranian border.NASA says Voyager 1 space probe has left Solar System
NASA\'s Voyager 1 space probe has left the solar system, making it the first human-made object to journey into interstellar space.Fighting spreads as rebels besiege Philippine city
Philippine troops battled Muslim rebels on two fronts Thursday, after the insurgents attacked a second town near the southern port where they ...Putin writes to Americans on US strike against Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday against a U.S. strike on Syria, saying such action risked escalating the conflict beyond that ...Japan hangs convicted murderer
Japan hanged a 73-year-old man on Thursday, bringing to six the number of inmates executed since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe ...North Korea may be restarting plutonium reactor
North Korea may have restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing enough plutonium to make one atomic bomb every year, a U.S. ...UN: Food waste costing global economy $750bn a year
One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750 billion (570 billion euros) a year, a ...North and South Korea agree to reopen joint Kaesong industrial park
North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to reopen their Kaesong joint industrial park next week, five months after it was shut during ...