China has passed a new law stipulating that family members should pay regular visits to their elderly relatives, according to the government's official website. The ruling, approved by China's National People's Congress on Friday, is

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The darkness is total. Mundane gestures suddenly become complicated. How do you find the door to your room, cook a meal or cross the road? The "Invisible Exhibition" in the Polish capital Warsaw offers an

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Iran plans to relocate an airport in the south-west of the country after discovering oil deposits under its runway, media reported on Saturday. The National Iranian Oil Company "intends to buy Ahvaz airport due to

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Jewish settler activists left a wildcat outpost near the West Bank city of Ramallah quietly on Saturday, Israeli media reported, 24 hours after battling security forces sent to evict them. Israeli television said that the

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Rebels in the Central African Republic, defying mediation efforts, on Saturday seized another town in their advance on the capital, forcing an army retreat and putting them just one town away from Bangui. The rebels,

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Several thousand people rallied in front of the headquarters of Macedonia's rightist ruling party on Saturday demanding the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and early elections. The rally was the culmination of days

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Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Saturday called on US President Barack Obama to be proactive in ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his forthcoming term. "We hope that the new American administration adopts a policy

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Veteran character actor Harry Carey Jr., who appeared in scores of television shows and films including nine of famed movie director John Ford's classic Hollywood Westerns, has died at age 91, his family said on

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A Georgian soldier, who went missing in southern Afghanistan last week, was found dead on Saturday, Georgia's defence minister said. Minister Irakli Alasania gave no details about the soldier's death which brings to 19 the

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President Benigno Aquino's government called for reconciliation on Saturday after a "divisive" birth control act was signed into law despite bitter opposition from the influential Catholic church. Making sex education and contraceptives more widely available

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