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Swiss restaurant still in world's top 10 despite chef's suicide 05 Dec 2016 - 12:51 pm
A picture taken on May 15, 2012 shows Benoit Violier, chef of the Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier near Lausanne, Switzerland (AFP Photo/Marcel Gillieron).
After Castro death, Raul successor waits in the wings 05 Dec 2016 - 12:46 pm
View of Fidel Castro's tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro's ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled
Trump meets on cabinet appointments 05 Dec 2016 - 12:42 pm
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U.N. chief Ban may be unwitting loser in S.Korea presidential scandal 05 Dec 2016 - 12:35 pm
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye speaks during an address to the nation, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, 29 November 2016. REUTERS/JEON HEON-KYUN/POOL
Grisly search as California fire toll climbs to 33 05 Dec 2016 - 12:29 pm
Rachel Saxer (L) embraces friend La Tron at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a fatal warehouse fire in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, U.S. December 4, 2016. / STEPHEN LAM / REUTERS.
In Aleppo, dreaming of home but finding only rubble 05 Dec 2016 - 11:19 am
Kefa Jawish (L) and her husband Tajeddin Ahmed look a destroyed building in the Aleppo's northeastern Haydariya neighbourhood as they head to check their house for the first time in four years on December 4, 2016. 
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Syrian rebels set to lose another Aleppo district - insurgent 05 Dec 2016 - 11:03 am
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Indian state on alert after leader's cardiac arrest 05 Dec 2016 - 10:23 am
Well wishers of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaraman hold her portrait as they pray at a temple in Mumbai, India, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Syria army takes new Aleppo district: monitor 05 Dec 2016 - 09:52 am
Syrian residents of eastern rebel-held parts of Aleppo walk through the Kadi Askar district as they leave their homes for a safer place in a distinct rebel-controlled area on November 30, 2016, during a Syrian army offensive on the eastern sectors of the
Recapture of Mosul "possible" before next US administration: Pentagon chief 05 Dec 2016 - 09:32 am
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Raids kill dozens in Syria's Idlib, UN to vote on ceasefire 05 Dec 2016 - 09:23 am
Peninsula
Italy referendum: three scenarios for what happens next 05 Dec 2016 - 08:53 am
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Italy's Renzi quits after crushing referendum defeat 05 Dec 2016 - 08:50 am
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces his resignation during a press conference at the Palazzo Chigi following the results of the vote for a referendum on constitutional reforms, on December 4, 2016 in Rome. AFP / Andreas SOLARO
At least 11 killed in hotel blaze in Pakistan 05 Dec 2016 - 08:45 am
Guests are gather outside a Regent Plaza Hotel following a fire in the Pakistan's port city of Karachi on December 5, 2016. AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM
Palestinian President Abbas gets boost in Fatah congress vote 04 Dec 2016 - 08:42 pm
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C) arrives to cast his vote at the Muqataa, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the city of Ramallah in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on December 3, 2016. Abbas's Fatah party held a vote for members of its ruli
The snake-catching tribe saving lives in India 04 Dec 2016 - 07:53 pm
In this photograph taken on November 11, 2016, an Indian snake-catcher extracts venom from a cobra at the venom extraction center of the Irula snake-catchers cooperative on the outskirts of Chennai.AFP / ARUN SANKAR
Analysis: Italy's referendum: A specter haunting Europe? 04 Dec 2016 - 07:39 pm
Francesca Pascale (L), fiancee of Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leaves a polling station after voting for a referendum on constitutional reforms, on December 4, 2016 in Rome. Italians began voting today in a constitutional referendum on
Syrian rebels weakened in Aleppo battle by their own divisions 04 Dec 2016 - 07:29 pm
A man walks near a damaged Islamic State sign in government controlled Hanono housing district in Aleppo, Syria December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki