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12 December 2016 • 13:42 AMT
Beijing says “seriously concerned” by Trump’s One China remarks

It was the strongest signal yet from Chinese authorities that abandoning the One China policy would upset decades of Sino-US relations.

12 December 2016 • 13:29 AMT
Skype brings real-time translation feature to mobile, landline calls

Users will still need three things to access the tool, though: they’ll need to be signed up to the (free) Windows Insider Program.

12 December 2016 • 13:24 AMT
Dinosaur skeleton auctioned for over €1 million in France

Discovered in 2013 in the Jurassic Era Morrison Formation in the western United States, the specimen is more than 7.5 metres long and 2.5 metres tall.

12 December 2016 • 13:20 AMT
Virus found in child mummy could rewrite smallpox history

The highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease was finally eradicated in the late 1970s through a worldwide vaccination campaign.

12 December 2016 • 13:06 AMT
Dutch want guarantees on Ukraine deal at EU summit: Reuters

The draft decision by EU leaders has been prepared by the Netherlands, the only EU state that has not ratified the Ukraine-EU agreement.

12 December 2016 • 12:56 AMT
Sotheby’s Sale of English Literature to offer Jane Austen treasures

A Letter from Jane to her sister Cassandra, dated 8-9 November 1800, is estimated at £40,000-60,000.

12 December 2016 • 12:52 AMT
The Serpentine Gallery opens exhibit of paintings by architect Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is regarded as a pioneering and visionary architect whose contribution to the world of architecture was ground-breaking and innovative.

12 December 2016 • 12:43 AMT
40% of Tbilisians approve of Georgian women marrying Armenians – poll

Georgians living in the capital report the highest approval of Georgian women marrying men of other ethnicities.

12 December 2016 • 12:31 AMT
Bob Dylan admits he never considered lyrics to be “literature”

Dylan said that the idea of being mentioned in the same breath as luminaries and “giants of literature” is “truly beyond words.”

12 December 2016 • 12:05 AMT
Venezuela pulls highest-value banknote “to beat mafia”

Critics said the latest move was impractical and would not tackle the root cause of the country’s financial crisis.

12 December 2016 • 11:52 AMT
Turkish police arrest 118 pro-Kurdish officials in Istanbul attack aftermath

The arrests come two days after twin bomb attacks near a football stadium in Istanbul which killed 44 people.

12 December 2016 • 11:41 AMT
Oil prices surge amid new output deal

Brent crude jumped to $57.89 a barrel – the highest since July 2015 – before falling back to $56.79, although that was still a gain of 4.5% on the day.

12 December 2016 • 11:18 AMT
Coldplay play “Swallowed In The Sea” for the 1st time in 10 years

The band released their album “A Head Full Of Dreams” in Dec 2015, reaching Number One in the UK and selling over four million copies so far.

12 December 2016 • 11:06 AMT
Metallica frontman talks inspiration behind “Moth Into The Flame”

The metal group’s first album in eight years, ‘Hardwired… To Self-Destruct’, was released last month (November).

12 December 2016 • 10:53 AMT
“Doctor Who” is back in 2016 X-mas special trailer

Peter Capaldi stars as the Doctor, alongside Matt Lucas, Justin Chatwin, Charity Wakefield, Tomiwa Edun, among others.

12 December 2016 • 10:45 AMT
Les Arcs’s Work-in-Progress features “The Wildness,” “Dovlatov”

“The Wildness” is a contemporary drama starring rising French actor Vincent Rottiers as a young man who gets indocrinated by radical Islamists.

12 December 2016 • 10:45 AMT
NASA helping Stephen Hawking get tiny ship to Alpha Centauri

NASA and researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology think that the best option might be “self-healing” transistors.

12 December 2016 • 10:29 AMT
Austria threatens to block EU-Turkey accession talks

“Dissidents are being intimidated, opposition politicians locked up, the death sentence is supposed to be restored,” Kurz said.

12 December 2016 • 10:21 AMT
More than 10,000 civilians flee east Aleppo in 24 hours: Observatory

It takes to about 130,000 the number of civilians displaced since regime forces launched an offensive to retake the rebel-held east.

12 December 2016 • 10:06 AMT
TAK militants claim deadly Istanbul attack that killed 38

TAK is an offshoot of the PKK, which has carried out a violent, three-decade insurgency, mainly in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast.

12 December 2016 • 09:59 AMT
Police arrest six in anti-terror raids in London, Burton, Derby

Four men from Derby aged 22, 27, 35 and 36, a 27-year-old man from Burton upon Trent and a 32-year-old woman from London have been arrested.

12 December 2016 • 09:48 AMT
EU, Cuba ink deal to normalise relations

The new agreement was signed by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini.

12 December 2016 • 09:43 AMT
Italian rescuers save more than 1100 migrants in Mediterranean

Most of the 4,715 deaths in the Mediterranean counted by the IOM so far this year were reported en route to Italy from Libya.

12 December 2016 • 09:04 AMT
Former Mexico president joins Aurora Prize Selection Committee

Zedillo joins a group of Humanitarians headed by Academy Award-winner and humanitarian George Clooney to Choose 2017 Aurora Prize Finalists.

12 December 2016 • 08:53 AMT
Ex-Pantera bassist Rex Brown set to release solo album next year

Speaking to Metal Hammer earlier this year about the album, Brown described it as “a rock and roll record.”

12 December 2016 • 08:40 AMT
Solar thermal heaters installed in Armenia detention centers

Solar thermal heaters installed in Armenia detention centers

12 December 2016 • 08:33 AMT
“The Hamilton Mixtape” debuts atop Billboard 200 chart

The star-studded compilation album features covers of songs performed by artists like Sia Furler, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson and others.

12 December 2016 • 08:25 AMT
Installment sales now performed at VivaCell-MTS service centers

To buy a device, users need to visit one of the abovementioned service centers, presenting their passports and social identity or ID cards.

12 December 2016 • 08:24 AMT
“The Donor” drama wins the Golden Star at Marrakech Film Fest

The Marrakech Festival’s Jury Prize was awarded to circus docu-fiction “Mister Universo.”

12 December 2016 • 08:17 AMT
Kathleen Turner, Frances Fisher to star in “Someone Else’s Wedding”

The film revolves around a dysfunctional family forced to confront what tore them apart at their eldest son’s nuptials.