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SHE’S in charge of factory workers sewing clothes for 12 hours a day. She’s paid less than $35 dollars a month. And she’s a nine-year-old girl. Meem works in a sweatshop on Dhaka Bangaldesh. According to thestar.com , her working days run from 9am until 9pm. She gets an hour off for lunch but spends […]

KEVIN Durant was presented with his first MVP trophy at a jam-packed, festive reception in Oklahoma on Tuesday night. The 25-year-old Thunder superstar bared his soul in a long acceptance speech the likes of which is almost never seen in the cooler-than-thou sports culture, shedding tears as he revealed his insecurities and lavished praise on […]

The first time Jack Ma used the internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend. Within hours, he received a handful of emails from around the world requesting information. It was an introduction to the […]

IF you were a billionaire only picking up an extra $1 a year for working, would you even bother? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 29, has an estimated worth of US$25 billion. To put that in perspective, he could buy a new hoodie every day for the 685,000 years — give or take. That’s not taking […]

Skagen| Ankjær Nørgaard, an 8-year old boy from northern Denmark, is certainly one of the world’s most gifted kids when it comes to mastering different languages. Already fluent in more than 31 different tongues and dialects, the young prodigy has become youngest human being ever recorded to have learned 32, by adding the Mandarin (or […]

US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have reported assets worth between $US1.8 million and $US7 million for last year, with little difference from their previous year’s holdings, according to financial disclosure forms released today. The forms, required by law, permit public officials to list their assets in broad ranges. As a result, […]

GOOGLE executive Ray Kurzweil takes 150 vitamins a day – the first step in his plan to cheat death. The 65-year-old futurist and inventor, who is director of engineering at Google, is using a “bridge to a bridge to a bridge” system he says will enable him to live long enough to see a biotechnology […]

CHINESE tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal aeroplane life jackets, China’s image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behaviour. The National Tourism Administration publicised its 64-page Guidebook for Civilised Tourism – with illustrations to accompany its list of dos and don’ts […]

A US waiter says his faith in humanity has been restored after a diner secretly picked up the bill for a pair of strangers who he overheard receiving a devastating diagnosis. “While waiting tables tonight, a mother and daughter started crying mid-meal,” the Boston-area waiter wrote in a Reddit post that is warming hearts across […]

Army Captain Brian Dowling was leading his Special Forces team through a steep mountain pass in eastern Afghanistan when insurgents ambushed his patrol, leaving two of his soldiers pinned down with life-threatening wounds. After a furious firefight, the two men were rescued, but that episode in 2006 would change Dowling’s life. Now employed by a […]