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South Korea's presidential office says South Korean and North Korean officials have resumed the second round of talks in the border village of Panmunjom on Sunday a day after North Korea threatened to go on a war footing against South Korea. (Photo- Messages on the Twitter page of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, demand that "convicted murderer" Oscar Pistorius be denied early release from jail. (Photo: AP)
- Women will parade topless through the streets of New York on Sunday, flashing their breasts in the name of feminist liberation as they celebrate annual GoTopless Day. (Photo: Twitter)
- Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country's worst ever bombing. The government said progress in the investigation was being made but declined to give details or offer
- A gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said. "Everything happened very fast," Anthony Sadler, a student travelling with
- The Islamic State group claimed Thursday's car bomb attack on a police building in the Egyptian capital that wounded 29 people, including six policemen. (Photo: AFP)
- Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington state as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding
- The "new mantra" of the U N Population Fund is to keep girls in school until age 18 "in every nook and cranny of the world" as the best way to slow population growth, the head of the agency said. (Photo: AFP)
- The second-in-command of the dreaded Islamic State militant group has been killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, the White House has said.Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz was killed on August 18 while travelling in a vehicle
South Korea's presidential office says South Korean and North Korean officials have resumed the second round of talks in the border village of Panmunjom on Sunday a day after North Korea threatened to go on a war footing against South Korea. (Photo
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