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ENGINEERS were preparing for the launch Wednesday of a “space plane” that Europe hopes will help it master a key phase in orbital flight — the ability to return to Earth. A

UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko will attend an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the war in his country, EU President Donald Tusk said Wednesday. Poroshenko will “brief us on the

MORE than 200 migrants are missing after their boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to survivors of the latest tragedy in the area, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday. “Nine were

FIGHTING in Ukraine has killed at least 45 people in the last 24 hours, Kiev officials and rebel authorities said, ahead of a four-way summit in Minsk to thrash out a peace

CIERRA Dorsey has happy memories of hanging out at the mall as a teenage girl, an adolescent rite of passage under threat in parts of the US as old-fashioned malls close their

MALAYSIAN police have arrested a cartoonist for sedition after he condemned the judiciary for imprisoning opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar began a fire-year sentence on Tuesday for sodomising a former male aide

THE jailing of Anwar Ibrahim dashes the dreams of millions of Malaysians yearning to oust the country’s authoritarian regime, unless his shell-shocked opposition movement can bridge deep differences without his unifying presence,

JOURNALISTS in war-torn South Sudan are facing growing pressure with reporters killed or attacked and newspapers closed or threated, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Rights groups have repeatedly warned that

BRITISH diplomatic staff in Yemen have been withdrawn and the embassy closed due the security situation in the country, the Foreign Office has said. Embassy staff and its premises are at “increased

AUSTRALIA’S failure to end the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal people was described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday as “profoundly disappointing” with key targets missed and employment levels actually worsening. Abbott —