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Hillary Clinton to resume campaign Thursday after pneumonia treatment: campaign

​Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has been staying at home since swooning at a 9/11 memorial ceremony due to pneumonia, will return to campaign trail on Thursday, her Campaign twittered Tuesday.

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Clinton's health scare revives concerns about her physical fitness to be president

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's health scare has triggered fresh speculation about her health and revived concerns about her physical fitness for running for the White House.

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Poverty "main suspect" behind death of family of 6 in NW China

A mysterious case of murder in a small village in northwest China's Gansu province, which saw a whole family poisoned, had grabbed the attention of authorities and the public alike.

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Clinton's bout of pneumonia raises worries for Democrats

Democrat Hillary Clinton's bout of pneumonia, kept secret until she nearly collapsed on Sunday, has raised an element of uncertainty about her health going into the final weeks of presidential campaigning and risks feeding a narrative from rival Donald Trump about her stamina.

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China's big baby bump puts the squeeze on hospitals and pregnant women

Jane Liang sits in the packed and noisy waiting hall of the Beijing Women and Children’s Hospital but the din doesn’t annoy her. Instead, she feels extremely lucky.

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U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton cancels California fundraising plan due to pneumonia

​Plans for U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to travel to California Monday and Tuesday for a series of campaign fundraisers were canceled Sunday following a diagnosis of pneumonia, her campaign announced today.

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Woman in iconic V-J Day kiss photo dies at 92

The woman in an iconic photograph that shows her kissing an ecstatic sailor in New York's Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II has died.

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Diagnosed with pneumonia, Clinton falls ill at 9/11 memorial

Hillary Clinton is suffering from pneumonia, the Democratic presidential candidate's personal doctor said on Sunday after she fell ill at a Sept. 11 memorial, an episode that renewed focus on her health less than two months before the election.

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Chinese best-sellers flying off the shelves at Autumn Book Fair in Vietnam

At the Autumn Book Fair, the largest of its kind in the country, local readers have shown great passion towards Chinese best-sellers.

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Indian court sentences man to death for fatal acid attack on woman

​In a landmark ruling, an Indian court has sentenced to death a 25-year-old man for a fatal acid attack on a woman in Mumbai three years ago.

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Indian acid attack survivor wows New York runway

An Indian teenager who lost an eye and whose face was brutally disfigured in an acid attack walked the New York catwalk to whoops and cheers Thursday in what she called a life-changing experience.

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Dengue strikes again: Hong Kong woman is confirmed to be third local case this year

Like the other two people whose cases originated locally, she resides in Central and Western district

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French woman who received world's first face transplant dies

The world’s first face transplant recipient, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, died in April “after a long illness”, a French hospital said Tuesday (Sept 6).

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Japanese-Indian crowned Miss Japan, drawing mixed reaction

Social media lit up Tuesday with the news of a half-Indian woman being crowned a beauty queen in Tokyo, with many congratulating her and marveling at how far Japan has come in embracing racial diversity.

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Subsidised Zika test for those who meet criteria

Singaporeans across the island who show clear signs of a Zika infection will from tomorrow be able to test if they have the virus at a subsidised rate of $60.

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Mother Teresa is now Saint Teresa, Pope declares

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis yesterday, fast-tracked to canonisation just 19 years after her death.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel in trouble after election debacle for her pro-refugee stance

A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017.