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Meat lovers eat steak standing up at new restaurant in New York City

Carnivores who stood in a late morning line for roughly 30 minutes to dine at a new Japanese steakhouse in New York City remained standing once inside, part of a plan to allow customers to wolf down their food and move on.

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Thousands of Romanians form EU flag at anti-government rally

Thousands protested in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Sunday against the Social Democrat government that tried to weaken a crackdown on corruption earlier this month.

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BBC journalist faces five years jail for Thailand reporting

A British journalist with the BBC faces up to five years in a Thai jail after a lawyer brought a criminal defamation case against him over an investigation into fraud on a popular tourist island.

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Japan zoo kills 57 snow monkeys due to 'alien genes'

A zoo in northern Japan has culled 57 of its snow monkeys by lethal injection after discovering they carried the genes of an "invasive alien species".

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Renzi's resignation may lead to confusing period for Italy's future

Italy's most important political party moved closer to fracturing after former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped down Sunday as the Democratic Party's general secretary, setting up a showdown between his allies and the party's old guard.

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Italy's Renzi defies foes, opens way for party leadership battle

Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Party (PD) on Sunday, opening the way for a leadership fight in which he will take on rivals threatening to split the centre-left.

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Sixty-five per cent of people skip online video ads

Most people are skipping YouTube ads out of habit, but many remember ads that strike an emotional chord

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Don't Fear the Pigman

Last month, scientists announced that they’d created an unusual form of life. They started with pig embryos produced through in-vitro fertilization, then injected them with a few human cells, and then implanted them into sows, where they developed for three to four weeks. Most of the hundreds of embryos they created this way died, but 186 survived. For these, researchers reported, one of every 100,000 cells were human.

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British EU residents concerned about Brexit's impact: survey

Most British expatriates in the European Union are worried that Brexit will limit their rights in their country of residence, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

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Creepy Facebook tool reminds us all that Graph Search was a terrible idea

If we knew how much data we willingly handed out each day, would it matter? If ignorance truly is bliss, as they say, we’re a society of happy internet users that are blissed out of our goddamn minds.

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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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Republican plan would ease Wall Street rules, as party embraces deregulation

The Republican chairman of a key House of Representatives committee has laid out his plan to roll back Wall Street rules and consumer protections conceived after the 2008 financial crisis, a step that will largely define the financial deregulation debate in the Trump era.

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Indonesian inmates swap cash for luxuries

The Indonesian government has vowed to fire or imprison guards found guilty of taking bribes from inmates in return for special treatment.

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China's state travel operator boycotts Japanese hotel chain over Nanjing Massacre denials

China International Travel Service Limited announced on Wednesday that it will end all business relations with a Japanese hotel chain which refused to remove books from its guest rooms denying the Nanjing Massacre took place.

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Why Age Is No Barrier To Learning A Language

We now know that training changes your brain even after only a few sessions. Translation: older brains can change too

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Australian family rescued after night on Japan mountain

An Australian woman and her three sons have been rescued after spending a freezing night on a mountain in Japan.