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A passenger ship carrying more than 400 people plus  50 crew members from the eastern Chinese Jiangsu province sunk in the Yangtze River on Monday night. According to reports, only 13 people have been rescued […]

HSBC are expected to announce up to 20,000 job cuts next week, according to unidentified people “close to the matter” Sky News reports.  CEO Stuart Gulliver is due to disclose a target to shareholders on […]

Co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was released from a Swedish prison on Monday.  Fredrik Neij was reunited with family and friends and expects to return to his home in Laos – where he lives […]

According to a survey, South Koreans think Japan is a far greater threat than China. About 78% of South Koreans dislike Japan while 52% of Japanese feel the same about their Korean neighbours. The attitudes […]

A Brazilian binman was captured on camera performing an act of cruelty to an injured dog. Instead of rescuing an injured dog from the side of the road where the binman was performing his trade, […]

A South African lion mauled an American tourist and her companion in their car at a privately run game reserve outside Johannesburg. One 22-year-old woman was mauled to death as the lion jumped through the […]

A French court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to cut people off from their water supply if they are unable to afford to pay for it.  This means water companies in France will not […]