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'Keeping up with the Kattarshians' is the cat reality TV show you never knew you needed

Move over Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, and the rest of the Kardashian/Jenner/Disick/West gang. There's a new reality show in town and its adorable quotient rivals that of even North and Saint West.

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Is It Safe to Eat Desserts Made Out of Snow?

Snow ice cream and whisky sluPinterest and Instagram are full of recipes that use snow—things like snow cones, slushy cocktails, and DIY ice cream. And while frozen margaritas sure sound like an ideal way to make the best of a blizzard, is it even safe to consume those freshly fallen flakes?shies are flooding Instagram

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Live streaming offers instant fame

What do a child doing homework, a young man eating dinner and a female "anchorwoman" belting out pop songs have in common?

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Chinese police release footage of live-streaming "hosts" damaging squad cars

As China clamps down on the live-streaming industry, police in an inland city have published photos of two young men arrested for filming themselves damaging police cars and uploading the footage online, accoring to mainland media.

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Instagram introduces new features that mimic Twitter and Snap tools

For the last six years, Instagram has been a repository for users’ most picturesque moments. But 2016 has been a year of reinvention for the photo-sharing social network, which has broadened what it lets people do with their images.

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Facebook links up with news outlets for US Election Day live video blitz

Facebook said on Monday it would partner with 50 broadcast stations, print and online publications for an Election Day live video blitz, as the social media company aims to build on the momentum of its popular Facebook Live video streaming service.

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Chinese live video streams hit, police target for spreading obscenity

Streaming smartphone apps package lives of ordinary people as content, capture young eyeballs, spin money

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611 sick in U.S. Salmonella outbreaks linked to live poultry: CDC

​At least 611 people have been sickened and one died in eight separate multistate outbreaks of human salmonella infections linked to live poultry in backyard flocks this year in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday.

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China's Supreme Court to broadcast open trials live on Internet

Jing Hanchao, vice president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Wednesday that all of its open trials would be broadcast live on the Internet from July 1.

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Indonesia plans to stop sending new live-in maids abroad

Indonesia says it will stop sending new live-in maids abroad from as early as next year. Its authorities want domestic workers to live separately from their employers in dormitories, work regular hours, and get public holidays and days off.

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S. Korea conducts live-fire drill near inter-Korean sea border

​South Korea's military on Friday conducted a live-fire drill in islands near the disputed inter- Korean maritime border despite the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s condemnation against it.

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Australian public service workers live 4 years longer: study

​Australian government workers will live almost four years longer than other workers, according to a new study released on Wednesday.

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CY Leung challenges Hong Konger's diet habit after culling 20,000 chickens

Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung on Tuesday questioned local residents' diet habit of cooking live poultry bought from market, since the deadly H7N9 bird flu has forced the government to cull thousands of live chickens to prevent spread of the epidemic.

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HK confirms H7N9 bird flu, to cull about 20,000 poultry

Hong Kong's food and health authority on Monday evening confirmed a H7N9 bird flu case was found at a local agricultural products wholesale market and announced it will cull about 20,000 poultry in the market Tuesday morning.

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Hangzhou halts live poultry trading; Shanghai reports deaths

Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, announced Thursday that live poultry trading in its main urban areas is halted as of Friday to help contain H7N9 bird flu infections.

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Resurgent bird flu epidemic pains poultry industry

Live poultry traders in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou sighed in despair as business was halted Friday at the height of the Lunar New Year sales period due to the resurgent bird flu epidemic.

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Australia live exports in tatters after latest torture revelations

Among the disturbing footage, a bound animal is blinded with a knife, while another is knee-capped with bullets from an assault rifle.