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KATMANDU, Nepal: The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest said she doesn’t intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people’s opinions of Saudi women and...
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Tabuk students make short YouTube film against child abuse

Monday 13 May 2013
Students at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tabuk (FOM-UT) have made a 5-minute-long short film about child abuse titled "Enough", in collaboration with Dr.
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China pupil has father, sister killed over study

Monday 13 May 2013
BEIJING: A school pupil was arrested in China for hiring hitmen who killed his father and sister because of the pressure they put on him to study, reports said Monday, highlighting educational stress
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Saudi students invent animal feeding device

Monday 13 May 2013
Two female students, Ajyad Al-Jawad and her colleague Yomna Nasrallah from Al-Bassam Private Schools (Girls) in Dammam, have invented an automatic animal feeding device.
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‘Idol’ judges drama upstaging competition

Monday 13 May 2013
LOS ANGELES: The ratings are down. Randy Jackson is out. Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj are still at it.
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Branson serves as stewardess after losing bet

Monday 13 May 2013
British entrepreneur Richard Branson, wearing an AirAsia flight attendant’s uniform, drops a tray of drinks onto AirAsia’s Chief Executive Tony Fernandes during an AirAsia promotional event on a f
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Daddy bear Pyros keeps Pyrenees numbers up

Monday 13 May 2013
TOULOUSE: The number of bears roaming the Pyrenees remained stable at a minimum of 22 last year, thanks largely to the continued virility of Pyros, the undisputed daddy of the colony.
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London Zoo appeals for female mate for ‘ugly’ fish

Monday 13 May 2013
LONDON: London Zoo has launched a hunt to find a female mate for a “gorgeously ugly” fish threatened by extinction.
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New Yorkers get pumped up for bike sharing

Monday 13 May 2013
In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on New York’s latest mode of public transport: a bicycle
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Mike Tyson, with pigeon sidekick, to star as TV cartoon detective

Monday 13 May 2013
LOS ANGELES: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will star as a cartoon detective, with a pigeon as a sidekick, in a new animated series, US cable network Adult Swim said on Friday.
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Phony spiritual adviser spirited away $ 650,000

Monday 13 May 2013
New York: A fake Manhattan soothsayer pleaded guilty to using her powers to persuade a client to fork over more than $ 650,000.
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