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Image copyrightPear Video Image caption People in China can pay with their phones to enter make-up rooms, complete with cosmeticsA new trend of “shareable make-up rooms” aimed at urban women is igniting debate in China, as companies try new ways to grab a slice of the world’s largest market for …

An unusual set of circumstances will combine in the early hours of Monday morning in the skies above the northern hemisphere, resulting in a phenomenon called a super blood wolf moon. A total lunar eclipse will give an apparent reddish colour to the lunar surface – known as a blood …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Jan. 19, 2019, 8:20 PM GMT / Updated Jan. 19, 2019, 9:49 PM GMT By Jonathan Allen, Phil McCausland and Geoff Bennett WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed a deal to end …

Image copyrightGetty Images Image caption Despite no guarantee of pay, thousands of US government workers are still required to workAs America’s longest-ever government shutdown continues, federal workers face an uncertain financial future. About 800,000 US federal staff are at home or working without pay during the political deadlock over funding …

I tolerate beaches, I do not love them. This is only one of many ways I sit outside the popular Home and Away-mythologising of Australia as a waterside paradise of fit white bodies becoming an acceptable shade of light brown. Among my Lebanese family, I was alone in feeling this …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Jan. 19, 2019, 11:18 PM GMT By Dennis Romero and Natalie Valdés A Catholic archdiocese outside Cincinnati is investigating the actions of some of its high school students during the …

Image copyrightGetty Images The deadly militant raid on a hotel complex in Kenya has raised questions about whether the security forces have learned any lessons from past terror attacks, including the four-day siege on the Westgate shopping centre in 2013. These days individuals and vehicles entering any major public premises …

Tony Mendez, the former CIA technical operations officer who orchestrated the 1980 rescue of six American diplomats from Iran and who was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Academy Award-winning film Argo, has died. He was 78. READ MORE: Former Canadian ambassador to Iran says he feels slighted by Ben …

Malcolm Turnbull has paid tribute to the retiring minister for jobs and women, Kelly O’Dwyer, describing her as a “true liberal” who “demonstrated women can do anything”. O’Dwyer’s shock resignation on Saturday has sparked further debate about the low representation of women in the Liberal party and the difficulty for …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Jan. 19, 2019, 11:30 PM GMT By Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump broke a fundamental rule of modern politics Saturday when he outlined a new plan to get …