In the eras before air-conditioning, southern China's skywells played a key role in keeping people's homes cool. Could they do it again today? Ru Ling loves spending time in skywells. To her, these courtyards of old Chinese houses are the perf...
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Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's long-time pilot has testified at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell that he flew VIPs to luxury locations worldwide. Larry Visoski, the first witness in Ms Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial, recal...
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PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he recently took a “very hard” cognitive test — would you be able to ace it? Trumptold Fox Newshost Chris Wallace that he “aced” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 35-question t...
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A Chinese woman fainted in a jewellery shop after accidentally breaking a jade bracelet priced at $44,000 (35,000). The tourist from eastern Jiangxi province was trying on the bracelet in a shop in Ruili in Yunnan province near the bo...
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Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf will forfeit $41m (£31.5m) in bonuses as the bank tries to deal with a scandal over its sales practices. The bank is investigating how two million accounts were opened without customers' permissi...
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WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush's farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous(动荡的) presidency(总统任期) in his own, unfiltered terms — a...