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Minister Kuo-Yen Wei Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan) November 2015 During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a…

David Cameron has outlined his four goals for reforming the UK's membership of the EU, including restrictions on benefits for people coming to the UK. He said Britain faced a "huge decision" in the in/out referendum promised before the end…

The University of Missouri System's President, Tim Wolfe, and the Chancellor of the flagship campus, R. Bowen Loftin, announced on Monday that they were resigning their posts in the face of growing protests by African-American students, the…

(BBC) The US government is offering $27m (£18m) in rewards for information on the whereabouts of six leaders of the Somalia-based al-Shabab group. The highest reward is $6m for the group's leader Abu Ubaidah. He replaced Ahmed Abdi…

(BBC) Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have attended a Remembrance Day Service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. They joined the Governor General in laying commemorative crosses and poppy wreaths at the Tomb…

(BBC) The leader of Colombia's largest armed rebel group, the Farc, has said he ordered the organisation in September to stop buying guns and ammunition. Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, known as Timochenko, said the decision showed the Farc's…

(BBC) The mayor of Concepcion, an Argentine town in northern Tucuman province, says he is trapped in the town hall. Mayor Roberto Sanchez said the building was surrounded on Monday night by demonstrators who burned tyres. Mr Sanchez says…

(BBC) Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and water shortages in east and southern Africa because of the strengthening El Nino weather phenomenon, the UN children's charity has said. It has caused the worst drought in…

(BBC) US prosecutors have charged three men in connection with the largest cyber-attack in US history. Details of 100 million people were accessed by cyberthieves between 2012 and the summer of 2015. At a press conference on Tuesday, US…

Since 2008, the two sides have created peaceful and stable conditions in the Taiwan Strait, winning widespread approval and support from the people of both sides, as well as from the international community. This is an important milestone…

The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts. Budi Waseso said crocodiles often made better guards than humans because they could not be bribed. He…

(BBC) A Jordanian policeman has opened fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say. The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the assailant wounded five others,…

(BBC) Tests are to take place to determine why the ground opened up in a Mississippi city, swallowing 12 cars in a restaurant car park. The large gash, some 400ft (120m) long and 35ft (11m) wide, opened up late on Saturday in Meridian,…

Votes are being counted in Myanmar's first openly contested national election in 25 years. Turnout is thought to have been 80% in the poll - seen as a further big step away from decades of military rule. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League…

Elections take place this weekend in Myanmar after decades of military rule. More than 90 parties are standing in the first national elections since a nominally civilian government took power in the country in 2011. However, the United…