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Center of Tropical Storm Colin moving across northern Florida - NHC 07 Jun 2016 - 09:10 am

People check out the waves from Tropical Storm Colin on June 6, 2016 in Venice, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP Tropical Storm Colin made...

State TV reports attack targets Turkish police bus 07 Jun 2016 - 09:07 am

File picture of Istanbul, Turkey. Reuters ISTANBUL: A Turkish police bus was targeted in a bomb attack on Tuesday in a central Istanbul ...

Food handouts prompt row in shortage-hit Venezuela 07 Jun 2016 - 09:04 am

A box with basic foodstuffs is pictured in one of the food distribution centers called CLAP (Local Committees for Supply and Production), which...

Lancome concert cancellation good for business: Chinese media 07 Jun 2016 - 08:55 am

Commuters walk past a backlit Lancome advert in Hong Kong on June 6, 2016. AFP / ANTHONY WALLACE Beijing: Cosmetics giant Lancome showed...

Explosion rocks Istanbul district near bus stop, some wounded - CNN Turk 07 Jun 2016 - 08:52 am

ISTANBUL: An explosion rocked the central Istanbul district of Vezneciler near a bus stop on Tuesday and some people were wounded, broadcaster CNN...

UK unions reluctantly nail colours to EU mast 07 Jun 2016 - 08:32 am

This file photo taken on October 18, 2014 shows Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), speaking at a...

Hong Kong student leader Wong acquitted over anti-China protest 07 Jun 2016 - 08:30 am

Political activist Joshua Wong ahead of his verdict over an anti-China protest, at the Eastern Law Courts Building in Hong Kong on June...

Presidents and billionaires drive battle against Africa's deadliest creature 07 Jun 2016 - 08:02 am

A doctor tests a child for malaria at the Ithani-Asheri Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Katy Migiro By Katy Migiro ARUSHA,...

Hindu priest slaughtered in western Bangladesh: police 07 Jun 2016 - 07:59 am

Dhaka: Unidentified attackers slaughtered a 70-year-old Hindu priest in western Bangladesh on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on...

Hillary Clinton: a burning ambition and resilience to match 07 Jun 2016 - 07:52 am

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets the crowd at a campaign rally at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June...

Five dead, two injured in Paris suburb fire 07 Jun 2016 - 07:48 am

Firemen stand in an aerial bucket to extinguish a fire in a building on June 6, 2016 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. AFP /...

'Amadeus' playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90 07 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am

Peter Shaffer, a YouTube grab London: British playwright Peter Shaffer, who won an Oscar for his film adaptation of "Amadeus", one of his...

Venezuelan woman shot dead during latest looting 07 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am

Police officers and criminal investigators inspect the area where a woman was shot when looters raided state food warehouses, in San Cristobal, Venezuela,...

US Navy in Japan under alcohol ban after drunk driving case 07 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am

Osprey military aircraft are seen at the U.S. Futenma airbase in Ginowan, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, July 26, 2013. REUTERS/Nathan...

Stanford University sex attack sparks outrage 07 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am

Brock Turner is seen at the centre. Photo courtesy: RAHIM ULLAH / The Stanford Daily Los Angeles: The father of a Stanford University...

Soviet defector Korchnoi, challenger for world chess title, dies at 85 07 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am

Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi photographed in Switzerland by Juerg Vollmer / Maiakinfo. Wikimedia Commons Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, who defected from the Soviet...