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Singapore's Jewel Changi, the world's most awesome airport?

Singapore's Jewel Changi, the world's most awesome airport?

Airport and paradise are two words destined never to sit next to each other in the same sentence, but looking at the plans for Singapore's new airport that could soon change. December 11 2014, 12:32 4 313 views

Obama Accepts Decision Not to Prosecute CIA Officers: White House

Obama Accepts Decision Not to Prosecute CIA Officers: White House

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest announced that US President Barack Obama shares the US Department of Justice decision that no prosecutable crime had been committed by the CIA officers. December 11 2014, 11:53 3 457 views

Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine from today

Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine from today

Russia has resumed gas supply to Ukraine from today, said the Ukrtransgaz spokesman Maxim Belyavsky. December 10 2014, 15:56 3 557 views

Treaty on Armenia's accession to Eurasian Economic Union ratified by State Duma

Treaty on Armenia's accession to Eurasian Economic Union ratified by State Duma

Russian lawmakers voted unanimously. The lower house of Russia's parliament (the State Duma) has ratified the treaty on Armenia's joining the Eurasian Economic Union. December 10 2014, 15:45 4 018 views

Record deaths in 2014 as migrants try to cross the Mediterranean

Record deaths in 2014 as migrants try to cross the Mediterranean

It is the deadliest route for people fleeing in search of a better life. December 10 2014, 15:20 2 489 views

Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal

Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal

Russia's richest man has revealed that he bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him. December 10 2014, 10:59 3 950 views

US set to publish CIA 'torture' report

US set to publish CIA 'torture' report

Security stepped up at US facilities around the world ahead of report detailing harsh CIA interrogation techniques. December 9 2014, 17:52 3 516 views

Indian PM Modi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Indian PM Modi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who entered office this year on the promise of reviving the country’s economy, is the winner of this year’s reader poll for TIME Person of the Year, time.com reports. December 9 2014, 12:41 3 015 views

French politician to Merkel: 'Shut your trap'

French politician to Merkel: 'Shut your trap'

A French politician has launched a verbal assault on Angela Merkel after the German leader called for more budget tightening in France and Italy. German finance minister Schäuble attempted to strike a conciliatory tone. December 9 2014, 10:32 2 372 views

Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

Brent and U.S. crude oil each fell more than $2 a barrel on Monday to a new five-year low amid a rising number of predictions that oversupply would extend well into 2015. December 9 2014, 10:11 3 403 views

NATO Formally Ends Afghanistan Mission: US Defense Department

NATO Formally Ends Afghanistan Mission: US Defense Department

The US Department of Defense has announced that NATO's International Security Assistance Force Joint Command mission in Afghanistan has officially ended. December 9 2014, 10:08 3 250 views

Mexico Grieves After Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students are Identified

Mexico Grieves After Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students are Identified

Three days of mourning have been announced in Mexico as the remains of one of the 43 students who have disappeared in the Mexican state have been identified. December 8 2014, 15:16 2 506 views

Former KGB agent claims that Anna Chapman was ordered to seduce Edward Snowden

Former KGB agent claims that Anna Chapman was ordered to seduce Edward Snowden

A former KGB agent has said that former Russian spy and celebrity Anna Chapman was ordered by the Russian intelligence service to propose marriage to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to trap him in Russia, British tabloids have revealed. December 8 2014, 15:01 4 831 views

Jordan king says war against Islamic State is WWIII

Jordan king says war against Islamic State is WWIII

Jordan's king Abdullah II described the fight against Islamic State as akin to a third world war last week. December 8 2014, 11:17 4 068 views

Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in Dimas, Damascus

Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in Dimas, Damascus

Planes believed to be Israeli struck inside Syria on Sunday, the Syrian government and an opposition group said, but the two entities differed over whether the targets belonged to the Syrian military. December 8 2014, 11:08 2 988 views

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Peaceful protests over the chokehold death of Eric Garner took a violent turn in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, when several masked protesters smashed store windows and hurled objects atpolice officers who used smoke and teargas to disperse the crowd, reuters.com reports. December 8 2014, 00:27 2 134 views

Vnukovo airport engineer to remain in pre-trial detention over Total plane crash

Vnukovo airport engineer to remain in pre-trial detention over Total plane crash

The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld the detention of Vnukovo airport engineer Vladimir Ledenev charged in the criminal case over Total CEO Cristophe de Margerie’s death, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. December 5 2014, 15:54 3 495 views

Jehovah’s Witnesses website, books declared “extremist” in Russia

Jehovah’s Witnesses website, books declared “extremist” in Russia

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the website of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses is extremist. December 5 2014, 15:02 3 987 views

Ukraine president announces new ceasefire

Ukraine president announces new ceasefire

The Ukrainian president has announced a new ceasefire to begin on December 9. The so-called ‘day of silence’ in eastern Ukraine aims to secure a previous truce agreed in Minsk in September which only marginally reduced the fighting. December 5 2014, 11:56 2 583 views

Saipem Notified of Marine Activity Halt Following South Stream Termination

Saipem Notified of Marine Activity Halt Following South Stream Termination

Saipem, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Eni has announced that it had been officially notified of contract termination from South Stream Transport BV. December 5 2014, 09:32 3 518 views

Ice and winds cause havoc in east and central Europe

Ice and winds cause havoc in east and central Europe

Cold weather has been causing havoc in east and central Europe. In Serbia emergency workers “risked their lives”, according to the electrical grid company EMS, to mend power cables which had been brought down by high winds and ice up to 20 centimetres thick, euronews reports. December 4 2014, 17:04 2 577 views

President Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

President Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

December 4 2014, 16:30 3 849 views

19 Fishermen From Sunken South Korean Trawler Found Dead in Bering Sea

19 Fishermen From Sunken South Korean Trawler Found Dead in Bering Sea

The bodies of another three crew members of the South Korean fishing trawler Oryong 501, which sank in the Bering Sea on Monday, were found Thursday, a senior navy official told RIA Novosti on Thursday. December 4 2014, 15:22 3 363 views

Hong Kong Occupy Central founders surrender

Hong Kong Occupy Central founders surrender

The three co-founders of the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement which has become Hong Kong's biggest civic disobedience campaign turned themselves in to the police on Wednesday. December 3 2014, 17:47 2 181 views

Cairo court dismissed case against ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

Cairo court dismissed case against ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

A Cairo court has dismissed the case against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The reasons for this are obvious, reports dw.de. December 3 2014, 16:57 2 410 views