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May 23, 2013
12:42 pm
HONG KONG — While jokey and inspiring to some, Vice President Joe Biden's recent graduation speech at the University of Pennsylvania went over among Chinese students like a lead balloon.
May 23, 2013
11:42 am
Obama prom pictures
President Obama's 1979 prom photos have the Internet in a frenzy.
May 23, 2013
7:13 am
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British-born Muslim converts hack to death a serving soldier; Obama to announce new restrictions on drones; and the oldest man ever summits Mt. Everest. He is, wait for it, 80.
May 23, 2013
6:00 am
Marijuana arrests1
American lives derailed by laws against cannabis possession.
May 22, 2013
11:35 pm
Mount everest height 7 20 2011
Japan's Yuichiro Miura, 80, and Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, are vying for the Guinness World Record.
May 22, 2013
11:09 pm
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The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home state.
May 22, 2013
12:48 pm
Eurovision1 russia dina garipova 2013 05 22
The latest example of how a contest of saccharine pop groups has been unable to keep itself above geopolitics.
May 22, 2013
11:26 am
Naked ai weiwei
The heavy metal track comes from Ai Weiwei's forthcoming album, Divine Comedy.
May 22, 2013
9:57 am
Russia eurovision scandal dina garipova
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is feuding with Azerbeijan over points "stolen" from Russia's Eurovision contestant Dina Garipova.
May 22, 2013
8:40 am
Stockholm riots 3rd night
Youths in poor Stockholm suburbs continue to torch cars and riot after police shot dead last week a local man reportedly wielding a machete.
May 22, 2013
6:31 am
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What's Kim Jong Un's boy doing in Beijing? Also: security experts say internet warfare is all but imminent, and - gasp - garden gnomes have been allowed back at the Chelsea Flower Show. Just this once.