Tourism thrives in Malaysia despite tragedies

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Two airplane catastrophes put Malaysia on the map in a bad way last year

Bullets that ended a dream

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Beauty queen’s death angers nation

Time running out on former sex slaves’ quest

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‘They beat and stabbed us – we came back as cripples’

Islamic militants disrupt meds

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Tribal fears escalate as polio breaks out in rural areas

Desert tortoise faces threat from its refuge

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For decades, the vulnerable US desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence

Vatican insists pope did not perform exorcism

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Pope Francis’s fascination with the devil takes on remarkable new twists

Official hand seen in elephant poaching

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Slaughter in Tanzania’s open wilderness exerts pressure on government to act, writes Jason Straziuso

New frontier for transgenders

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‘Third gender’ Pakistanis are running for elections

Couples elope to let love live

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With strict Islamic Sharia under al-Shabaab extremists falling away, young Somalis are following their hearts

Manhood down drain

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‘Bobbitt’ wife slices penis off to stop sexual pain

Rape case that has split town

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Two teenage football players on trial on charges of raping a 16-year-old girl

Mandela spent night in hospital

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There areno updates on Nelson Mandela's condition since he went to a hospital in Pretoria, according to presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj.

Google ads fuel in ivory demand

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Firm ‘failing to protect endangered animals’

Central Africa forest elephant crises

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Central Africa’s forest elephant population had declined 62 percent over the past decade

One love celebrated

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Fans flock to honour Marley on anniversary of his birth

Al-Qaeda flourishes in the Sahara

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… and becomes stronger

Rolling Stones marks 50th year

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Rolling Stones made a triumphant return to the London stage on Sunday night in the first of five concerts

Sexual harassment spikes in Egypt

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Egypt's president acknowledges the widespread problem of sexual harassment in his country

Pakistan teen activist admired across the region

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Exposed the Taliban's atrocities and advocated for girls' education in the face of religious extremists

Ancient statue carved from meteorite

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Statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition before World War II

Neglect ruins Marcos’s shoes

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Soiled belongings fill boxes in museum

Liverpool fans were not to blame

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Documents vindicate efforts by victims’ families, who spent 23 years demanding full account

New York police shooting video

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Police and a man wielding a 28cm knife confront each other in New York’s Times Square

Ocean acidity threatens coral reefs

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Ocean acidification acts as the “osteoporosis of the sea”

Pakistan shuns memory of ‘God particle’ physicist

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First Pakistani Nobel Prize laureate Prof Abdus Salam has been disowned by many because he was a member of a minority Muslim sect