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LOS ANGELES: Fed up with Twitter friends ruining the plots of her favorite TV shows, high school senior and budding software engineer Jennie Lamere took matters into her own hands.

Dar Al-Hekma opened its biannual two-day Visual Communication Exhibition yesterday, showing the work of 49 graduate students of the Visual Communication Program.

Senior ophthalmology consultant at Elite Medical and Surgical Center in Riyadh Dr.

LONDON: Britain’s weak economy has taken its toll on the nation’s poshest greengrocer with Prince Charles forced to close his organic vegetable store, citing falling trade and rising prices.

VIENNA: A 22-year-old Austrian had the shock of his life when he received a tax bill for more than 29 million euros ($ 38 million), a newspaper reported yesterday. Agadir B.

WARSAW: Tourists visiting a Polish castle in the southern city of Krakow yesterday narrowly escaped an attack by an axe-wielding local whom police dubbed “a madman.” The 48-year-old identified by

Welcome to Orania, South Africa: A whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid.

An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong — but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an

 

What is charisma? It is hard to define and cannot be taught but when a person has it, it is instantly recognizable.