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The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

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North Korea rejects an offer by South Korea’s president to resume reconciliation talks.
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A former Pentagon analyst who passed military secrets to a Chinese spy is sentenced to five years in jail.
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Seoul complains that North Korea is failing to co-operate with a probe into the shooting of a South Korean tourist.
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The funeral of leading Vietnamese Buddhist dissident Thich Huyen Quang takes place under tight security.
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The Indonesian army funded militias that committed human rights abuses in East Timor, says a report seen by the BBC.
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Canine cuisine is in the dog house as China spares the feelings of foreign visitors.
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A senior Toyota car engineer died from working too many hours, a Japanese labour bureau rules.
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The Thai foreign minister quits after a court rules he violated the constitution by signing a deal over a disputed temple.
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An Indonesian man who murdered 42 women and girls in black magic rituals is executed by firing squad.
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A man storms into a police station in the Chinese city of Shanghai and stabs at least five officers to death, officials say.
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A 69-year-old Australian man is charged with hacking his grandchildren and wife to death with an axe.
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Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim urges supporters to protest against what he claims is a conspiracy against him.
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More than 10,000 people work to clean up green algae that has invaded the Olympic sailing venue in Qingdao.
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Australia’s former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, leaves politics to become UN envoy to the Cyprus peace process.
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Senior envoys for Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are in Beijing for formal talks, the government-in-exile says.
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Mongolia’s president declares a state of emergency following violent protests over alleged vote-rigging in elections.
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Lawyers in Australia say police powers introduced for a major Roman Catholic gathering undermine free speech.
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Vietnam’s economy slows in the first half of 2008 but lower growth is welcome to prevent overheating, economists say.
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Workers in Sydney run for cover after mistaking a military exercise for an aerial attack.
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The main venue for Beijing’s Olympic Games – the ”Bird’s Nest” stadium – is complete and fully operational, say officials.
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Australia’s treasury secretary takes time out to care for hairy-nosed wombats, sparking questions from some opposition politicians.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says there are still unanswered questions over North Korea’s nuclear programme.
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Indonesian rescuers recover the bodies of 18 people who were on board a plane which crashed into a mountain.
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Angry crowds attack government buildings in south-west China in protest at the death of a teenage girl.
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks refuge in the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur, after receiving threats.
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Polls open in Mongolia, for a parliamentary election where the country’s mineral wealth is at stake.
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The discovery of a toxic cargo on board a sunken Philippine ferry halts an operation to recover hundreds of bodies inside.
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South Korean police use water cannon to disperse a big protest in Seoul against the resumption of US beef imports.
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The prime minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi, avoids having to face a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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US officials confirm Thursday is the target date for Pyongyang to deliver an overdue declaration of its nuclear activities.
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Divers found bodies but no survivors as they began searching a capsized ferry in the Philippines, navy personnel say.
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Environmentalists complain that dissent is being suppressed as the International Whaling Commission gathers.
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The global whaling body opens the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban.
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Texan private equity firm Lone Star is cleared of rigging shares by a South Korean appeals court.
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In a landmark ruling, a US court overturns the designation of a Guantanamo inmate as an ”enemy combatant”.
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A Japanese warship arrives in southern China for a five-day port call, the first such visit since World War II.
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Qantas flights are grounded as engineers begin a series of strikes over pay.
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Supporters of Malaysian PM Abdullah Badawi promise to thwart coalition lawmakers calling for a vote of no-confidence.
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Twelve officials are fired by the Chinese government for their handling of the earthquake that struck the country last month.
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Hundreds of people are still missing after a Philippine ferry carrying some 800 people capsized on Saturday in a storm.
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A high-level meeting opens in Bali, Indonesia, to highlight the risks of hazardous waste from computers and other sources.
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Police in northern Australia charge a man with drink-driving – in a motorised wheelchair.
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In a breakthrough for negotiators, North Korea will provide a full account of its nuclear activities on Thursday, reports say.
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Aboriginal leaders threaten to ban tourists from a top Australian landmark in protest at ”racist” government policies.
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A deadly mite could threaten Australia’s vital honey bee population, a parliamentary committee warns.
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Security is very tight as the Olympic torch begins its passage through China’s predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
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Actress Nicole Kidman stars in a new film set in the Australian outback which is hoped will boost tourism.
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China’s yuan is at its highest level since July 2005 as US and Chinese officials begin a two-day meeting.
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Three death row inmates are executed in Japan, two months after four other prisoners were hanged.
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China sends Vice-President Xi Jinping to North Korea in an apparent push for progress in nuclear talks.
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UN officials are given rare access to North Korea’s countryside to assess how serious food shortages there are.
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Mass evacuations and river reinforcements are under way in southern China amid fears of more bad flooding.
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UN police in East Timor are considering handing over responsibility to the local force, amid worsening ties.
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In a last-ditch move, South Korea and the US resume talks aimed at modifying a controversial beef agreement.
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Two lorry drivers are saved from rising floodwaters in a dramatic jet ski rescue in western Australia.
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Rescuers in northern Japan find three more bodies, bringing the death toll from Saturday’s quake to nine, officials say.
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Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denies he has set a date to stand down from office.
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China warns that one of its longest waterways, the Yellow River, is in danger of bursting its banks.
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China and Japan are close to a deal that would ease a long-running dispute over offshore gas fields, reports from Japan say.
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A Malaysian palm oil firm is to begin growing rice to tackle shortages of the crop and help meet record demand.
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Huang Qi, a Chinese journalist who vanished last week, is being detained over criticism of the quake response, his mother says.
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A month on from the earthquake, Chinese officials impose tight security in damaged areas, apparently to prevent protests.
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A drugs trial is abandoned in Australia after several jurors admitted they had spent much of their time playing Sudoku.
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Negotiators from China and Taiwan agree to host representative offices, in their first formal talks for a decade.
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A warrant is issued for the arrest of the Sultan of Brunei’s brother who failed to appear in a UK court.
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Japan’s police raid two firms after vacuum pumps they made and sold were found in a North Korean nuclear facility.
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Chinese inflation falls back to an annual rate of 7.7% in May, official figures show, as food price growth slows.
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Japan’s lower house shows its support for PM Yasuo Fukuda, a day after the upper house censured him.
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The former Vietnamese prime minister and key economic reformer Vo Van Kiet has died at the age of 85.
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Japan’s PM Yasuo Fukuda suffers a fresh blow as the opposition-held upper house passes a censure motion against him.
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China has begun to successfully drain an unstable lake formed by the Sichuan earthquake, officials say.
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Thousands of South Koreans are protesting against US beef imports, as the cabinet offers to resign amid the crisis.
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A high-level delegation from Taiwan arrives in China for the first talks since formal discussions were suspended 10 years ago.
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Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives in Australia for a visit, as his supporters urge China to meet his envoys.
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Japan lifts a ban on its swimmers wearing record-breaking – but foreign-made – Speedo suits at the Olympics.
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Japanese pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo is to buy a stake in Indian drugs firm Ranbaxy for up to $4b.6n.
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More than 4,000 children in China are named ”Olympic Games” as the country prepares to host Beijing 2008.
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China’s trade surplus fell 10% in May after a surge in imported energy and raw material costs, figures show.
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The Malaysian government has said it will not back down on its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests.
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Police in Australia arrest 70 people in a major crackdown on images of child sex abuse posted on the internet.
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An obscenity investigation into photos of nude children at a Sydney art gallery has been dropped.
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Australia’s Kevin Rudd seeks to scotch health fears, saying a bad stomach he suffered was down to a rugby match pie.
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Japan and North Korea are to resume talks on bilateral ties after a gap of nine months, a Japanese minister says.
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Burmese state media accuses both its citizens and foreign press of exaggerating storm devastation.
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China sends medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to parents who lost their only child in the quake.
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Three Britons are among five divers missing off the coast of eastern Indonesia.
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Almost 450 Japanese bureaucrats admit receiving cash or other gifts from taxi drivers used for official journeys.
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Japan’s economy shows further signs of weakness as unemployment rises and consumer spending falls.
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A Thai cabinet minister allied to ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra quits amid claims he criticised the monarchy.
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Tokyo shelves a military flight carrying quake aid to Sichuan amid Chinese fears of an anti-Japan backlash.
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Australian energy firm Origin rejects a $13bn takeover bid from UK power company BG Group.
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Police in Japan arrest a woman for living in a man’s wardrobe for several months without him knowing.
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A senior UN official says any coercion of Burmese cyclone victims to return home is completely unacceptable.
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Hull FC sign versatile Australia forward Michael Crocker on a three-year contract from next season.
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Sharon Stone is dropped by Christian Dior in China after saying the recent earthquake was the result of bad ”karma”.
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A woman in Australia has given birth to a healthy girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy.
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