"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.
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PARIS - MEN who drink alcohol every day see a nearly one-third average reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a long-term study among Spanish men published on Thursday.
GENEVA - PEOPLE held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said on Wednesday.
MUMBAI - NO ONE would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing motorists.
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S deputy education minister has said that speaking English in the workplace is 'weird' and harmful to the nation's culture and identity, a report said on Wednesday.
Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
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WASHINGTON - A DRUG that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK - LOOKING for love? Try leaning in for a... cheek swab. A couple of genetic testing companies are promising to match couples based on the DNA testing, touting the benefits of biological compatibility.
LONDON - BRITISH man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court heard on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - THE US public debt topped US$12 trillion (S$16.8 trillion) for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed on Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress.
Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling before a foreign leader.
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LONDON - ROYAL heirlooms including a picnic set and a portrait painted by Queen Victoria go on sale at Christie's in London on Friday and are expected to fetch around one million pounds ($1.7 million).
LONDON - POPULAR children's author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because officials thought her work 'lacked literary value', letters from the broadcaster's archives showed on Monday.
MUMBAI - JACK Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organisation, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
It's the cost, Mr. President.
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Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually.
PORTLAND - THE United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
MOSCOW - WHEN a police officer posted a video on YouTube complaining of rampant abuse in Russian law enforcement, it seemed like a lonely voice in a sea of social media.
BEIJING - THE Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with 'Oba Mao' T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.
BEIJING - A FIVE-MONTH-OLD baby boy suffering from an eye infection died in hospital in eastern China as the attending doctor was playing a game online, state media reported on Friday, citing health officials.
BEIJING - CHINESE state agents regularly abduct citizens and detain them for days or months in secret, illegal 'black jails', subjecting them to physical and psychological abuses, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
SEOUL - EDUCATION-OBSESSED South Korea rescheduled rush hour and airline flights on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren sat a college entrance examination seen as crucial to their future.
GENEVA - A PECKISH bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday.
LONDON - A BRITISH man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.
We all know local roads which can be considered 'dangerous' - poorly lit lanes, potholed tracks, stretches of motorway which attract the area's wannabe Schumachers and so on.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.
Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
Authorities investigating six family members accused in a series of sexual assaults involving young relatives dating back to the 1980s seized booklets and magazines depicting incest from the family's home.
Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling before a foreign leader.
It's the cost, Mr. President.
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