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Vietnam deports Kim Jong-un impersonator ahead of summitVietnam deports Kim Jong-un impersonator ahead of summit
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Howard X says officials have told him that his visa is "invalid", but has received no explanation as to why

A Kim Jong-un impersonator has been deported from Vietnam ahead of the real North Korean leader's meeting with US President Trump in Hanoi this week.

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Bao: An Oscars ode to Chinese mothers and Asian foodBao: An Oscars ode to Chinese mothers and Asian food
Image copyrightPixarImage caption Love between a lonely Chinese mother and her baby dumpling

Little dumplings can do big things. And Disney-Pixar's Bao certainly did, taking home this year's Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

It is Chinese-Canadian animator Domee Shi's directorial debut, paying homage to the

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Serena Williams: Cartoon accused of racism cleared by press watchdogSerena Williams: Cartoon accused of racism cleared by press watchdog
Image:Watch: Serena Williams calls umpire 'liar' and 'thief'

A controversial cartoon of Serena Williams published in an Australian newspaper last year did not breach media standards, a press watchdog says.

The cartoon depicted Williams jumping above a broken racquet next to a baby's dummy in the US Open final.

Critics complained that the caricature

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Bangladesh plane 'hijacker' shot dead by special forcesBangladesh plane 'hijacker' shot dead by special forces
Image copyrightEPAImage caption Security forces cordoned off the plane when it landed in Chittagong

A passenger suspected of attempting to hijack a flight from Bangladesh to Dubai has been shot dead by Bangladeshi special forces, local media report.

The suspect, who reportedly warned he had a pistol, was killed

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Australian farmers' long road after mass cattle deathsAustralian farmers' long road after mass cattle deaths
Image copyrightRACHAEL ANDERSONImage caption Queensland's northern cattle region was devastated by floods in February

Like many other Australian graziers, Matt Bennetto could only start to count the dead after the rain had stopped.

Flying in a helicopter over his sodden cattle station, he was confronted by the

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Oscars 2019: The Indian sanitary pad makers going to LAOscars 2019: The Indian sanitary pad makers going to LA
Image caption Sneh will be attending the Oscars in Los Angeles

Sneh was 15 when she started menstruating. The first time she bled, she had no idea what was happening to her.

"I was very scared. I thought I was sick with something very serious and began crying," she told me when I visited her home in Kathikhera

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