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Meryl Streep Has the Final Word on Her Oscars 2017 Look in Elie Saab Couture

There’s no drama quite like dress drama. And this week, the battle was between designer Karl Lagerfeld and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, with Lagerfeld taking to the trades to decry the fact that Streep had backed out of wearing Chanel at the last minute and wanted money in exchange for a red carpet moment—a comment he later rescinded—and Streep firing back with a terse statement.

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Why Japanese people are wrapping themselves up in cloth

​If you don't like tight spaces, you might want to look away now.

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Phelps: No chance of comeback

Swimmer Michael Phelps said on Sunday that his success at the Rio Olympics ensured he could retire without any regrets, as he ruled out a return to competition.

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Watching television linked to back pain in women: Australian study

Australian scientists have discovered a link between watching television and lower back pain among women, but not men.

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Iraq's marshes, once drained by Saddam, named world heritage site

A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday.

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3 tourists die, 1 still missing after speedboat capsizes near Koh Samui of Thailand

Three tourists are confirmed dead and one is still missing after a speedboat packed with foreign tourists capsized on its way back to the tourist island of Koh Samui in Southern Thailand on Thursday.

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Aust'n woman dies on Mt Qomolangma, body could stay on mountain indefinitely

​The body of an Australian woman, who died trying to conquer Mount Qomolangma, may not be returned home for some time.

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Hong Kong's plastic waste epidemic, and why it's bad news for all of us

Up to 2,000 tonnes of plastic is discarded in the city every day, and without adequate means to process it a lot ends up in the sea, from where it makes its way into the human food chain. A charity is helping Hong Kong businesses adopt better practices

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India to make "all efforts" to get back Koh-i-Noor diamond

The Indian government said Tuesday it would make “all possible efforts” get back a priceless diamond that is part of the Queen Mother’s Crown, only a day after telling a top court the stone belonged to Britain.

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Snowden voices hope for returning to U.S.

Fugitive U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden said Saturday that he is craving to go back home after over two years in exile in Russia.

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Aussie churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers set for detention on Nauru

​Churches around Australia on Thursday announced they will be bringing back the age-old concept of sanctuary in order to provide protection for asylum seekers who are to be sent to detention on Nauru.

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9 trafficked Myanmar workers repatriated from Indonesia

​A total of nine trafficked Myanmar migrant workers, who are seamen, have been repatriated to homeland from Indonesia, an official report said on Thursday.

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NASA's New Horizons probe begins year-long data transfer after Pluto flyby

Seven weeks after its historic flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft now began to transmit the tens of gigabits of data it collected about the dwarf planet back to Earth.

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British tourist rescued from Australian outback after writing SOS message in sand

​A British tourist who got lost in remote Australia for two days, with no food or water, wrote an SOS message in sand before being rescued by Australian authorities.

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DPRK patrol ship "forced back" by S. Korean navy: Seoul

​A patrol ship of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was sent back Tuesday after " violating South Korea's territorial waters", the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

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Peking Opera performance in Washington

Hu Wenge, student of Mei Lanfang's son Mei Baojiu, has been the only successor of male Dan, a female role in Peking Opera, in Mei school of Peking Opera for the past 50 years.