AFP - A Japanese freelance journalist freed after a five-month hostage ordeal in Afghanistan says he used Twitter to announce he was still alive under the noses of his captors, who did not understand English.

AP - Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing.

AP - Police arrested a top separatist leader Wednesday for rallying massive anti-India protests that have rocked the Indian portion of Kashmir for months, and supporters reacted by staging fresh demonstrations and hurling stones at troops.

AFP - Britain's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan is quitting with immediate effect, London said Wednesday, following a reported clash with NATO and US officials on fighting the Taliban.

AFP - Bangladesh has set up anthrax checkpoints at cattle markets as a major outbreak of the disease spreads through the country's dairy belt, infecting more than 400 people, officials said Wednesday.

Meet Lei Lei, a 44-pound, 10-year-old Chinese baby boy who’s been dubbed the ‘Michelin baby’ because he resembles the mascot for tire-producer Michelin. Lei Lei wasn’t always a huge baby. In fact, he weighed only slightly less than 7 pounds at birth. However, his ferocious appetite for his Mother’s breast milk quickly led to a [...] Related posts:Chinese Baby Up For Auction Online Baby Dinosaurs Fell Prey To Giant Snake Chinese Hen lays Giant Egg

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Japanese techno-gurus have engineered an intelligent toilet that swallows up poop and pee, provides a free drug test without a probation officer standing over your shoulder, and measures blood measure, to name a few. Designed by toilet manufacture Toto for Japanese homebuilder Daiwa House, the intelligent toilet offers users “an instant health check-up” every time [...] Related posts:Korean Member of Parliment Gets a Giant Toilet Home Airline Upgrades Toilet to Include Bidet Machine Turns Paper Waste into Toilet Paper

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This is the unlikely story of a fungus in Thailand that has seemingly magical powers.  Far away from their origins in Haitian folklore, zombies live again in the world of nature. Scientists are intrigued by this entity’s ability to control the brains of carpenter ants in a process known as “parasitic zombification.” As indicated by [...] Related posts:Ants and Worms: They Do a Body Good! Sri Lanka Flips Out Over Fossilized Buddha’s Tooth Hindu Ants Celebrate 420 with 50 Pounds of Hash?

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The Korean carmaker, Kia, already has a positive reputation within the auto cosmos as producers of small gasoline-run cars that get good mileage due to their diminutive status. Well good things may come in small packages, but as far as cars go, electric is the wave of the automobile industry future, and Kia is stepping [...] Related posts:If This Cars a Rocking… Call For Help! More Chinese pull cars with their ears South Korean Samsung Dance

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Audience members at a traditional swayamvar ceremony helped Bhanumati Vyas select a husband by voting for Rajendra Rawal. Swayamvar is an ancient Hindu practice wherein a woman chooses a husband from among a list of suitors. The swayamvar for Bhanumati attracted 36 eligible studs keen on making the 55-year-old widow their lifelong partner in life, [...] Related posts:107 Year-Old Woman Seeks First Husband Stabbing Husband is a Side Effect of Sleeping Pills? Red Ribbon key to finding husband

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