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BALIK PULAU: The Penang Butterfly Farm is spending RM53 million to implement its two-phase redevelopment plan to become the worlds first butterfly, dragonfly and firefly…
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LOS ANGELES: A wild black bear dragged away and ate the body of a Californian man who had died of a suspected heart attack, news…
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BERLIN: German rail travellers on Saturdays faced delays and disruptions on one of autumns busiest travel weekends as the train drivers union began one of…
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GOMA, DR Congo: Twenty-two people, most of them women and children, have been hacked and clubbed to death in the troubled east of the Democratic…
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KOMAKI, Japan: The first passenger aircraft to be made in Japan in nearly four decades was unveiled Saturday as its manufacturer pushed into the booming…
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PHILLIP ISLAND, Australia : World champion Marc Marquez of Spain took pole position and Cal Crutchlow and Jorge Lorenzo also secured front-row starts in the…
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