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Must do better: Japan eyes AI robots in class to boost English 22 Aug 2018 - 06:11 pm
A boy touches a robot as it performs Taiji, a traditional form of Chinese martial arts, at the World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, China August 17, 2018. Reuters/Jason Lee
The Rohingya lists: refugees compile their own record of those killed in Myanmar 18 Aug 2018 - 03:36 am
Mohib Bullah, a member of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, writes after collecting data about victims of a military crackdown in Myanmar, at Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 21, 2018.  Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Amazon is planning live TV recorder, challenging TiVo 17 Aug 2018 - 10:13 pm
A Tivo Bolt is displayed during the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2016.  Reuters/Steve Marcus
Despite summer heat, Brussels' flower carpet emblazons city centre 17 Aug 2018 - 04:13 am
A 1,800 square meters flower carpet on the theme
Swiss brothers get ready to refloat the bubble car 17 Aug 2018 - 02:56 am
Chief Operating Officer Oliver (L) and his brother Chief Marketing Officer Merlin Ouboter of Swiss Microlino AG pose beside an electric-powered Microlino car in Kuesnacht, Switzerland July 13, 2018. Picture taken July 13, 2018. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann
Coconut turmeric cake looks like a sunset and tastes like tropical paradise 15 Aug 2018 - 06:54 pm
Coconut Turmeric Sweet Bread (Photo by Stacy Zarin Goldberg and food styling by Lisa Cherkasky)
Japan's Akihito pushed imperial boundaries to reach out to Asia 15 Aug 2018 - 04:37 am
In this file photo taken on July 16, 2015 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and then Regional Revitalization Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) listen to a speech by a member of an opposition party at the parliament in Tokyo.  AFP / Kazuhiro Nogi
Rio's poorest teens caught between traffickers and the law 15 Aug 2018 - 04:37 am
Minors are escorted ahead of their trial at the Court of Children and Youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 13, 2018.  AFP / Mauro Pimentel
Huawei launches new range of AI smartphones in Qatar 15 Aug 2018 - 03:22 am
Screen grab taken from a youtube video.
Renovation work begins at Grand Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo 15 Aug 2018 - 02:43 am
Peninsula
Brazilian cops drop 'masculinity' requirement 14 Aug 2018 - 09:10 pm
Federal police officers stand in front of the office of former Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called Instituto Lula, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 4, 2016. Reuters/Marcelo Machado de Melo
US journalist's work on display, 6 years after Syria abduction 13 Aug 2018 - 09:58 pm
An image of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2012, circulated by the #FreeAustinTice campaign.
A sticky problem: boom in taste for octopus squeezes market 13 Aug 2018 - 06:36 pm
Photo courtesy: RitaE / 1987 images/ Pixabay
Illegal fishing, harm to Amazon forest linked to tax havens 13 Aug 2018 - 06:03 pm
 Agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, check a man at an illegal logging camp during
How to find and delete where Google knows you've been 13 Aug 2018 - 03:19 pm
A man walks past the brand logo of Alphabet Inc's Google outside its office in Beijing, China, August 8, 2018. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)
Orca back to feeding, frolicking after carrying dead calf 12 Aug 2018 - 09:53 pm
Representative image: Mother orca with calf near South Georgia Photo courtesy: Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0
Rushdie leads tributes to writer VS Naipaul 12 Aug 2018 - 08:48 pm
VS Naipaul giving a press conference upon his arrival to Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden a few days prior to the Nobel prize award ceremony in this photo taken on December 6 2001. AFP / TT News Agency / Maja Suslin
NASA spacecraft rockets toward sun for closest look yet 12 Aug 2018 - 03:40 pm
This handout photo released by NASA shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard during its launch on August 12, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.