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Indian PM Modi in Brussels: Top 10 quotes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Indian community in Brussels on Wednesday. Below are the top ten quotes from his speech:

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Sydney named Australia's top travel destination

​Sydney has been named as Australia' s number one travel destination, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

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Chinese vice premier urges stronger structural reform

​China will step up supply-side structural reform in its 13th Five-Year Plan period, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said at the opening of the China Development Forum in Beijing on Sunday.

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Top Go player ponders AlphaGo matchup

The world's top weiqi (or Go) player, Ke Jie, believes he has got what it takes to beat the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, which has just thrashed South Korean grandmaster Lee See-dol, but Ke admits his chances of winning are shrinking as AlphaGo "learns" at a stunning pace.

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World's largest light and ideas festival gets bigger across magnificent Australian harbour

​The world's largest light, music and ideas festival has become even bigger, expanding across the iconic and picturesque Sydney Harbour for a 23-night extravaganza commencing late-May.

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Will artificial intelligence be threat to human society?

​Google supercomputer AlphaGo outsmarted South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, winning 4-1 in the best of five game series that came to an end on Tuesday, as people begin to wonder whether the ever-changing world of artificial intelligence (AI) will one day pose a threat to the human society.

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Human Go champion finally defeats AI after 3 straight losses

Human Go champion Lee Sedol of South Korea finally defeated Google's Go-playing artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaGo on Sunday in the fourth match after three straight losses at the ancient Chinese board game.

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Historic "Man vs. Machine" showdown revitalizes old board game

With trillions of possible moves, Go has been described as one of the "most complex games ever devised by man." The contest of strategy and intuition has bedeviled artificial intelligence (AI) experts for decades.

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AlphaGo starts off with anomaly in 2nd Go match with Lee Sedol

​Google's computer program AlphaGo on Thursday started off with anomalies in the second Go match with human opponent South Korean Lee Sedol, the world champion of the ancient Chinese board game.

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Illegal fishing under spotlight at New Zealand conference

​About 200 representatives from 60 countries will gather in New Zealand next week to discuss how to step up the war against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing around the world.

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U.S. biggest crisis maker in world -- Sudanese experts

The United States is the biggest creator of crises in the world because its policies promote wars, conflicts and arms exports, Sudanese experts have said, citing the Middle East as a region where U.S. policies have created a hotbed of unrest.

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China's "Two Sessions" to offer huge opportunities for global development

Global spotlight will be shining on China early this month, as the Asian country is gearing up for the annual "Two Sessions" to explore the next-step solutions to its own development set to unleash tremendous potential on a global scale.

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China accounts for 90% of world's new billionaires

Despite a global slowdown mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau now account for billionaires than the USA.

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef being threatened by global bleaching event

Australia's great barrier reef is now being threatened by the third global coral bleaching event, the longest the world has ever seen, as the devastation could last well into 2017.

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Market turbulence exposes weakness of global economy, rather than China

​Chinese stock markets tumbled Monday after the week-long lunar New Year public holidays. The slide is not surprising as the stock markets in the United States, Europe and Japan all had a turbulent week.

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China still driver of global economy: Italian experts

A number of Italian experts and entrepreneurs are not worried about the economic slowdown of China, which they said still makes sizable contributions to the global economic growth and has considerable development potential.

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When China celebrates, rest of world benefits

​The Spring Festival traditionally is the most important time of the year for family reunion, but as China has become prosperous, an increasing number of wealthy Chinese are opting to travel abroad, which translates into big business for global retailers.