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IT’S a Saturday morning and a half-dozen adults are sitting in a high school classroom, staring at grim photos of sickly drug addicts and hearing about the deadly consequences of gang crime. They’d rather not be here, but a judge made them come. The mums and dads were ordered to attend the class under a […]

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev sang Elton John’s praise after a concert in Moscow on Sunday, writing on Twitter how impressed he was with the British pop icon’s show, RIA Novosti agency reported. ‘I was at Elton John’s concert. Very serious work, of very high quality – almost three hours of live music,’ wrote the president, […]

HUNDREDS of people dressed as Santa Claus have descended on London, startling commuters and tourists with a tide of seasonal cheer. Red-suited Santas poured through busy Liverpool Street railway station Saturday before walking across the city to Trafalgar Square. Others converged on the central square from the west and south. People posted photos on Twitter […]

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will put his fame to work to raise global awareness about India’s dwindling number of tigers, an official says. DiCaprio and India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh met at a reception Friday in New York organised by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, an inter-governmental organisation. “The actor met the minister and has […]

MONA Ramouni was taking notes with a Braille device when her guide pony Cali joined the class discussion with a sudden snort. ‘What do you think Cali?’ professor Shelley Smithson said with a laugh, and then steered the conversation back to theories of counselling and psychotherapy. Cali is just one of a handful of miniature […]

PANAMA CITY – YEAR-OLD Siamese twin girls connected at the abdomen were surgically separated on Tuesday by a team of 50 doctors from Panama and Argentina, in Panama’s first medical operation of this kind. ‘We’re very happy because the surgery was very difficult and complex. It took many months of preparation, but it’s yielded results,’ […]

A $2.1 million program, designed to slash children’s chances of being mauled, will be rolled out for students aged five to seven from next year. Role play, computer games, and real dogs will help show pupils how to act near dogs. “Bringing a well-supervised dog into the classroom will help reinforce the importance to students […]

The happier people are, the more likely they are to give time or money to charity, the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour suggests. The survey – conducted by the UK’s Charities Aid Foundation – suggests that well-being is a more reliable indicator of philanthropy than wealth. The survey took place in 153 countries, […]

This is a good step in improving relations between the two nations as traditionally relations has been sour. An annual event aimed at promoting exchanges between Japan and South Korea through culture will be held in Tokyo on Oct 2 under the theme of enjoying diversities and rejoicing consonances, the event’s organizer said. The ‘‘Nikkan […]

China is on track to launch its second lunar satellite by year’s end, as the country pursues its plans for a manned mission to the moon by 2020, state media said Friday. Preparations for the launch of the Chang’e-2 probe, which will go into orbit within 15 kilometres (nine miles) of the moon, are going […]