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"Cronut," you just can’t win them all. On Wednesday, Dictionary.com announced that it had chosen "privacy" as its word of the year, beating out other finalists including the croissant-doughnut hybrid that became a national phenomenon in 2013.

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An anti-corruption watchdog ranks the U.S. and Germany as the most active at enforcing rules prohibiting multinational companies from using bribes in foreign markets, but said Tuesday that half the world’s top exporters are doing little or nothing at all to investigate or prosecute offenders.

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◎俞智敏

Top-end French piano maker Pleyel, whose instruments were used by the likes of Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Franz Liszt, recently announced it will end production by the end of the year.

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Zelda la Grange joined the presidential typing pool in 1994. She soon won Mandela’s trust and went on to become his right-hand woman.

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A Siberian boy has formed a touching friendship with a wild sparrow after nursing it back to health.

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Nearly half Pakistan’s lawmakers do not pay taxes, according to a study, findings that may endanger billions of dollars in IMF and other loans and aid that shore up a faltering economy.

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The more housework married men do, the less sex they have, according to a new study published Wednesday.

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◎張沛元

An all-night bus service started Dec. 21, 2013 between Shibuya and Roppongi, two Tokyo entertainment areas often filled with people partying until the early hours of the morning.

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Teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai told an audience in New York Thursday that she would like to become prime minister of Pakistan to "save" the country.

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◎俞智敏

Cafes across Naples recently marked "Suspended Coffee Day", spotlighting a remarkable tradition of social solidarity in the crisis-hit Italian city that is now more needed than ever.

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