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Eighty-one-year-old Singapore granny Mary Ho has recorded her own album of Latin music, is often in demand for charity gigs and a video of her playing rock classic 'Need Your Love So Bad' has more than 1.1 million views on YouTube
World
08.08.2017
Guitar-slinging granny shreds stereotypes
A wildly popular drama likened to "Sex and the City" is breaking ground on China's staid state television with content that strikes at the heart of life today for the nation's urban women.
World
08.08.2017
Sex and the City confronts awkward truths
A July 29, 2017 handout from Seoul's Defense Ministry shows US Army missiles firing into the East Sea. The Pentagon is reviewing the size warheads Seoul can deploy amid continued saber-rattling from North Korea
World
07.08.2017
Pentagon, South Korea review missile size guidelines
A study shows atheists are more easily suspected of bad deeds than Christians, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists -- even by fellow atheists
World
07.08.2017
Atheists thought immoral, even by fellow atheists
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Rio de Janeiro has become so violent this year in the aftermath of the 2016 Olympic Games that the federal government sent thousands of army troops in July to support police
World 07.08.2017
British tourist shot after wrong turn
Anthony Michael Baker was more than five times over the legal alcohol limit when breath-tested after his ship Shansi docked in the northern New Zealand port of Marsden Point
World 07.08.2017
British captain drunk while berthing cargo ship suspended
Afghan security arrive at the site of a suicide blast last month: intelligence officials say they have found a huge cache of explosives in Kabul
World 06.08.2017
Officials seize truck with 16 tonnes of explosives
President Uhuru Kenyatta hails from the elite but has a reputation for the common touch
Pulse Nigeria 05.08.2017
From millionaire playboy to Kenyan president
This handout photograph released by 'This Is Navalny Project' shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his office in Moscow on July 7, 2017
World 03.08.2017
Opposition leader Navalny fined over campaign leaflets
This photo taken on July 20, 2017 shows supporters of Mauritanian President gathering and holding banners during a rally ahead of the constitutional referendum on scrapping the senate and changing the national flag, in Nouakchott
World 03.08.2017
Clashes on final day of referendum campaign
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, pictured in 2015, has long complained of being sidelined
World 03.08.2017
Prince Consort refuses to be buried with queen
Japanese firefighters try to extinguish a fire at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on August 3, 2017
World 03.08.2017
Outbreak out near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market
New Zealand's new opposition leader Jacinda Ardern says it is 'totally unacceptable' to say women should have to answer questions in the workplace on their plans for parenthood
World 02.08.2017
Opposition leader in sexism row over baby plans
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