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Hello Kitty shinkansen makes final run after 8 years of operation

A shinkansen bullet train featuring Hello Kitty made its final run on Sunday after eight years of operation.

Star of Rome's 'sexy priest' calendar admits: 'I was never a priest'

ROME - His face smiles out from every kiosk in Rome on the cover of the ubiquitous "sexy priest" calendar sold to tourists but Giovanni Galizia was never a man of the cloth.

As bee population collapses, US apiarists fear research cuts

BAKER, United States - In a lot behind a disused West Virginia gas station at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains, Roy Funkhouser is surrounded by about a dozen beekeepers and countless buzzing bees.

Heaven can't wait

In Sompot Chidgasornpongse's 9 Temples To Heaven, a Buddhist monk advises a family of merit-makers to visit his temple's gleaming new modern building. When the family expresses concern over the steep climb, a challenge to their elderly member, the mo...

Accountability urged for B400bn loan

The government is being urged to implement projects under the 400-billion-baht emergency loan decree with integrity, provided its legitimacy is endorsed by the Constitutional Court.

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