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The Secret History Of Black Baseball Players In Japan

2:41pm July 14, 2015

by Dexter Thomas

Decades before Jackie Robinson broke American baseball's color line, a long-standing camaraderie between black and Japanese players would shape the future of baseball in Japan.

How do you get people to talk about condoms? A man in a condom costume is one tactic used in Vietnam.

Vietnam Figures Out A New Way To Distribute Condoms

2:04pm July 13, 2015

by Esha Chhabra

The country has moved up from low-income status. So international handouts are winding down. And that presents some unexpected challenges.

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A Do-Not-Fly List For The Do-Not-Tan Crowd

12:48pm July 13, 2015

A Scottish girl's natural pallor nearly kept her family from an overseas trip when airline workers declared her too sickly-looking to fly.

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China's Stock Market Plunge Hits Small Investors

6:21am July 12, 2015

First-time investors were the hardest hit by China's stock market crash. Many who rushed to invest didn't have a high school education. NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks to economist Tom Orlik of Bloomberg.

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Stocks Manage To Bounce, But Commodity Prices Are Swooning

12:46pm July 11, 2015

by Marilyn Geewax

Prices for raw materials, such as iron ore, copper and oil, are down dramatically from last year. The price plunge helps contain inflation for consumers, but is tough on mining and drilling companies.

A resident rides a bicycle on a road submerged by water in Xiangshan county, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Saturday after Typhoon Chan-hom hit the Chinese coast south of Shanghai, forcing 1.1 million people to evacuate.

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Strong Typhoon Slams Shanghai, Second In A Week For China

10:00am July 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Chan-hom, packing winds of 100 mph, made landfall just south of Shanghai, forcing the evacuation of more than a million residents.

Activists in Sri Lanka got an early start on the day of action, with a demonstration by 800 people in Negombo province on the Sri Lanka's western coast.

Boy Band Joins The Masses To Take A Stand For Global Development

7:39am July 11, 2015

by Nadia Whitehead

One Direction is one of many supporters of today's "global day of action," when citizens will make demands of their leaders. The goal: to send a message to the Financing for Development summit.

Manuel Udaya Chandra's 24-year-old son disappeared in 2008, shortly before Sri Lanka's civil war ended. She holds out hope that he's still alive, though a government commission looking into those who disappeared has moved slowly.

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Sri Lanka's War Is Long Over, But Reconciliation Remains Elusive

1:36am July 11, 2015

by Julie McCarthy

The civil war is now six years in the past, but thousands of Tamil families are still looking for loved ones who disappeared during the conflict.

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Nepal's Living Goddess, the Kumari Devi, 9, observes a chariot festival in Kathmandu on March 29. The goddess is worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists. She's selected as a young child and lives an isolated and secretive existence and is rarely seen in p

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The Very Strange Life Of Nepal's Child Goddess

1:22am July 11, 2015

by Julie McCarthy

She's young and beautiful. A glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune. She's Nepal's Living Goddess, or Kumari, who is selected as a small child and lives a life of isolation and secrecy.

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A fishing boat carrying Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants is pulled to shore by Achenese fishermen off the coast of Julok, in Indonesia's Aceh province, on Wednesday.

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Desperate Rohingya Granted Temporary Shelter. But What Next?

1:20am July 11, 2015

by Michael Sullivan

Malaysia and Indonesia will allow migrants stranded at sea to come ashore. But it's a one-year, one-off deal, with no signs the flow of the Muslim minority fleeing persecution in Myanmar will stop.

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