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EU school children to get free fruit
11-19 23:58 (World)
School pupils throughout Europe will soon be offered free fruit every week under an EU initiative agreed on Wednesday to improve children's health and tackle...
Beijing will not restrict car sales, say officials:
11-19 23:00 (China)
Beijing authorities have decided against restrictions on private car sales proposed by residents to help ease traffic and pollution, a senior official was quoted...
Briton kills self in chainsaw decapitation
11-19 22:53 (World)
A British man committed suicide by cutting off his own head with a chainsaw, an inquest into his death found on Wednesday. David Phyall, 50, took his o...
Wall Street slides on record plunge in inflation
11-19 22:48 (Business)
US stocks opened in negative territory after the government reported consumer prices in a record plunge in October, highlighting slowing demand in the world's ...
Record low for US October housing starts
11-19 22:17 (Business)
Construction starts on new US homes fell to a record low in October, as did new applications for building permits, a report by the Commerce Department showed ...
Owners of hijacked tanker in ransom talks
11-19 22:10 (World)
The owners of a hijacked Saudi supertanker with a US$100 million (HK$780 million) oil cargo are in negotiations over a possible ransom payment, Saudi Arabia...
Al-Qaida No 2 insults Obama
11-19 22:00 (World)
Al-Qaida No 2 Ayman al-Zawahri was critical of and insulting to US President-elect Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election. ...
US consumer prices plunge record 1pc in October
11-19 21:46 (Business)
US consumer prices plunged a record 1 percent in October amid an accelerating global financial crisis, government data showed Wednesday. The decline i...
Iran blocks access to over five million websites
11-19 20:41 (World)
Iran has blocked access to more than five million internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted a...
Suspected typhoid outbreak affects 109 in Philippines
11-19 20:23 (World)
As many as 109 people have fallen ill due to a suspected outbreak of typhoid fever northeast of Manila, a health department official said on Wednesday. ...
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