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Authorities in central China limited factory production and opening hours for shopping malls, as the region grapples with its worst heat wave in six decades.

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The visit is the latest in a string by U.S. officials despite angry objections from China, as a Japanese delegation also arrived in Taipei.

From her engagement to Prince Charles as a shy teenager to her roles as doting mother, humanitarian and global celebrity, Diana’s turbulent 36-year life still captivates people around the world. Young, beautiful and fun, she seemed refreshingly informal when she

Seth Goldenberg wants us all to be more curious. The designer and entrepreneur brings design-based principles and questions to a variety of enterprises. He runs a design-based management consultancy, and has worked with many companies, including Apple and Oprah Winfrey’s

A woman who is believed to be related to two children whose remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand is in South Korea, Seoul police told AFP Monday. Last week, New Zealand police said they had discovered the remains

Singapore’s LGBTQ community on Monday welcomed the government’s plan to decriminalize gay sex but warned that upholding the traditional definition of marriage would only promote further inequality. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday that the city-state would repeal

The bodies of two pilgrims were pulled from an Iraqi shrine on Monday, two days after a landslide caused it to partially collapse, taking the overall toll to seven dead, rescuers said. “Unfortunately, we found this morning two bodies, a

Human rights advocates around the world this week called on Saudi Arabia to free Salma al-Shehab after she was sentenced to 34 years in prison and a 34-year travel ban for tweets criticizing the kingdom’s repression of women. Liz Throssell,

Ukrainian special forces were behind a Moscow car bombing that killed the daughter of an ally of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s security service has claimed.