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Would you share make-up with a strangerWould you share make-up with a stranger
Image copyrightPear VideoImage caption People in China can pay with their phones to enter make-up rooms, complete with cosmetics

A new trend of "shareable make-up rooms" aimed at urban women is igniting debate in China, as companies try new ways to grab a slice of the world's largest market for beauty products.

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Thai Buddhist monks killed in temple shootingThai Buddhist monks killed in temple shooting
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Armed police were deployed to the temple in Narathiwat province

Two Buddhist monks have been fatally shot and two others wounded inside a temple in southern Thailand.

Witnesses described seeing gunmen dressed in black arrive on motorbikes before storming the Rattanaupap

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Rent-a-sister: Helping Japan's reclusesRent-a-sister: Helping Japan's recluses
Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms - TheIndianSubcontinent News
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Trump-Kim summit: Second meeting by end of FebruaryTrump-Kim summit: Second meeting by end of February
Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Singapore summit was the first such meeting for a sitting US president

US President Donald Trump is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a second summit by the end of February, the White House says.

The announcement came after Mr Trump met top North Korean negotiator Kim

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Saiga ranger's death sparks Kazakh call for justiceSaiga ranger's death sparks Kazakh call for justice
Image copyrightOSPAN ALIImage caption Yerlan Nurgaliev holding a baby saiga

On 13 January two Kazakh rangers were on their usual patrol when they saw something strange - fresh car tracks.

In the remote uninhabited steppe, this could mean only one thing - poachers. Yerlan Nurgaliev and Pyotr Nitsyk quickly gave

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US citizen arrested for war crimes in Bangladesh 'was only 13'US citizen arrested for war crimes in Bangladesh 'was only 13'
Image copyrightSuppliedImage caption Mr Monir's family told the TheIndianSubcontinent they believe he is being held unjustly

A US citizen of Bangladeshi descent has been arrested during a visit to his native country for allegedly committing "war crimes" during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971 - a

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