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‘A great loss’: Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence over assassination of top lawyer who criticised military’s influence

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has broken a month-long silence on the assassination of her adviser, calling his killing a “great loss” for the country.

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Princess Diana's dresses go on display in London, 20 years after her death

Gowns worn by Princess Diana for everything from meeting diplomats to dancing with movie stars feature in an exhibition celebrating the fashion of one of Britain's favorite royals, which opens in London this week.

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Against all odds: Pakistan’s third sex seeks a reformation

Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair – but today she is above all the voice of a Pakistani community with an ambiguous status: the khawajasiras.

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Blue Ivy channels Beyoncé at NBA All-Star Game

Blue Ivy gets it from her mama. Beyoncé and Jay Z's five-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter appears to be transforming into her mother's mini-me.

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Philippines: Duterte critic Leila de Lima faces drugs charges

Philippine prosecutors have filed drug-related charges against a senator who is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

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Immigrants across the U.S. skip work, school in anti-Trump protest

Businesses shut their doors, students skipped class and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the United States on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

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Artist Valentina Loffredo’s photography passion develops into first Hong Kong solo exhibition

Italian mother of two’s show at LIGHTSTAGE in Sheung Wan features images from her popular LITTLE series, which she says is a work in progress

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This model just walked for Yeezy Season 5 in Hijab and the internet reacted in the best way

This afternoon, Kanye West debuted his highly-anticipated fifth Yeezy collection at NYFW. The rapper-turned-designer went with tradition, casting fairly unknown models for the presentation, but a few individuals stood out on the runway.

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Tiffany Trump's style journey with her Chinese fashion designer

It was such a pleasant surprise for Tao Wang to see Tiffany Trump, the youngest of U.S. President Donald Trump's two daughters, sitting in the front row at the Chinese designer's New York fashion week show.

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Sold into marriage: how Rohingya girls become child brides in Malaysia

The slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled to Malaysia from Myanmar's violence-hit Rakhine state. Just 12-years-old at the time, she was forced to wed a man she did not know, and who was more than a decade older than her.

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Philippine law that could jail children as young as nine is ‘wrong from every angle’, Unicef says

A law proposing children as young as nine be jailed for crimes is “wrong from every angle”, the head of the United Nations children’s agency in the Philippines has warned.

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Everything You Need to Know About the 2017 Grammys

Awards season is in full swing—and for all the obsessing over those golden Oscar statuettes, the 59th Annual Grammy Awards are here to remind us that music matters, too.

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Emma Watson: the feminist and the fairytale

She’s about to star as the heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but post-Potter she has received more plaudits for her activism than her acting

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A Personal Trainer for Heartbreak

After a traumatic breakup, Julia Scinto, a fashion designer in Manhattan, found herself searching online sites far and wide, looking for any available resource to help her feel better.

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France's Le Pen launches election bid with vow to fight globalization

France's far-right party leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday told thousands of flag-waving supporters chanting "This is our country!" that she alone could protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalization if elected president in May.