On March 15, 2016, supercomputer AlphaGo beat South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol, in a fifth and final matchup.
A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday (March 13), killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month.
The flight with 239 passengers and crew on board - 153 of them Chinese nationals - vanished as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Experts believe the plane detoured to the southern Indian Ocean - believed to be the likely crash site - although the search for wreckage has so far found nothing there.
It is the kind of campaign he said he would never run. But Senator Marco Rubio, seeing his path to the Republican nomination for the US presidential election growing narrower, has decided that the only way to defeat Mr Donald Trump is to fight like him: rough, dirty and mean.
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Tourists and residents in Bangkok bundled up as the temperature in the Thai capital dipped to 17.5 deg C yesterday, with many regions in Asia shivering in unusual cold weather.
While there has not been any Zika virus cases detected in Singapore so far, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Sunday (Jan 24) that it was monitoring the virus situation closely.
Singapore's political system must be refreshed from time to time as circumstances change, President Tony Tan Keng Yam said on Jan 15 as he announced that the Government will study it for possible reforms.
In April 2013, terrorist group Islamic State announced it would expand its operations beyond Iraq as the civil war in Syria worsened.
China's efforts to restore calm to its turbulent markets showed early signs of success as the yuan stabilized and regional equities rallied for the first time in five days. US treasuries and the yen fell as demand for havens eased.
Saudi Arabia's execution on Saturday of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken Shi'ite cleric who called for the overthrow of the Saudi royal family, triggered international condemnation and set off protests throughout the Middle East.
The issue of gun control has been one of the most intractable for President Barack Obama during his two terms in office.
In a significant escalation of tensions, Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran and expelled its diplomats on Sunday (Jan 3), a day after its embassy in Teheran was attacked to protest Riyadh's execution of prominent Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr atl-Nimr.
Big metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai no longer rule the roost of economic opportunities in China, with smaller cities now racing ahead as their increasingly cashed-up residents drive the future of consumption in the country.
Overseas fund transfers into Indonesia allegedly linked to terrorism last year and this year amounted to well over 10 billion rupiah (S$1 million), of which about six billion rupiah was from Australia, said Mr Agus Santoso, deputy head of PPATK, which is Indonesia's anti-money-laundering agency.
Hong Kong police on Wednesday (Dec 23) charged five men with conspiracy to arson over a small blast outside the legislature earlier this month.
Australia yesterday approved a controversial port expansion to support mining projects and the dredging of 1.1 million cubic metres of spoil, despite fears that it threatens the Great Barrier Reef.
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