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A Photoshopped Response Sticks Up For China's Plunging Necklines

7:48am January 14, 2015

by Renee Montagne

After a TV drama was yanked from Chinese airwaves so censors could cover up some low-cut outfits, snarky social media users have responded by Photoshopping coverings for cleavage everywhere.

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AirAsia Search: Divers Recover 2nd Black Box

1:41pm January 13, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The cockpit voice recorder was removed from the Java Sea. The aircraft's flight data recorder was recovered Monday. Flight 8501 disappeared Dec. 28, killing all 162 people on board.

Donating A Single Rollerblade Is Not Going To Help Disaster Victims

7:09am January 13, 2015

by Kathryn G. Kempton

Yet that's what someone gave after the Haitian earthquake. A staffer at one nonprofit offers a plan to discourage unuseful donations from individuals and corporations and get what's really needed.

A Pakistani soldier stands guard on a street as children walk to school in Peshawar on Monday.

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Pakistani School At Center Of Taliban Massacre Reopens

12:14pm January 12, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Taliban militants killed about 150 people at the military school in an attack last month. Students returned Monday amid heavy security.

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Indian Man, A No-Show At Work For 25 Years, Finally Gets The Ax

8:54am January 12, 2015

by Scott Neuman

A.K. Verma left his desk at the Central Public Works Department in 1990 and never came back. It finally caught up with him.

Crew members of Crest Onyx ship and Members of National Search And Rescue Agency unload the wreckage of part of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 on Sunday.

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Divers Retrieve Flight Data Recorder From AirAsia Flight

12:15am January 12, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Divers went down Monday to the bottom of the Java Sea and retrieved part of the so-called "black box" from the wreckage of the Airbus A320.

A large section of the AirAsia Flight 8501 tail was recovered from the sea floor and placed on the deck of a rescue ship in the Java Sea on Saturday.

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AirAsia Tail Recovered, But No Sign Of 'Black Box' Recorders

6:45pm January 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The large, red piece of debris emblazoned with the word "Asia" was lifted from the bottom of the Java Sea using inflatable balloons.

Editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in an Uzbekistan prison since 1999, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Courted By The U.S. And Russia, Uzbekistan Ignores Critics

4:35pm January 10, 2015

by Corey Flintoff

Uzbekistan has been a key partner for the U.S. in the Afghan war. Now that the U.S. role in that war is winding down, will Uzbekistan's poor human rights record become more of an issue?

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Skiing The Back Country Is Intoxicating, And Dangerous

11:31am January 10, 2015

Two promising young skiers died in an avalanche in Austria this week. In Yosemite, two climbers are scaling El Capitan. NPR's Scott Simon gets the latest from Outside Magazine's Grayson Schaffer.

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Sri Lanka's incoming President Maithripala Sirisena waves to supporters as he leaves the election secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Friday. Sirisena defeated long-time President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Sri Lanka's Longtime President Ousted In Election Defeat

12:42pm January 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided over the end of the island nation's long and brutal civil war, lost to a former ally and Cabinet minister, Maithripala Sirisena.