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US President Donald Trump has threatened to levy new tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese imports (File)

Beijing:  China and the US ended the second day of high-stakes trade talks Friday with "big differences", Beijing said, leaving the world's two largest economies on the brink of a trade war that could have
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A medical team removed the tumour in a five-hour procedure at Danbury Hospital.

Washington:  A 132-pound (around 60 kg) ovarian tumour, measuring almost three feet, was removed from a 38-year-old woman, from Connecticut in the United States, this year, said doctors involved in the case. 

The patient, who

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The Nobel Academy plans to give the 2018 Nobel Literature Award next year, along with 2019 award

Stockholm:  No Nobel Prize for Literature will be given this year, because of a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy
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Xi Jinping instructed party members to read Marxist theories and understand them (Reuters)

Beijing:  The decision of China's ruling Communist Party to stick with the political theories of Karl Marx remains "totally correct", President Xi Jinping said ahead of the 200th anniversary of the German
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Even the most frantic international routes don't come close to the most popular domestic flights.

A one-hour flight linking one of the smallest countries on the planet with its next-door neighbor is the world's busiest international
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Peter Kwok who has seven vineyards to his name said he is there for the long haul. (AFP)

Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, France:  Over the past decade Chinese investors have conquered dozens of chateaux in Bordeaux, France's famed wine-growing region.

Some left after seeing their investments wither on the vine,

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