Sitting in a teahouse in Chengdu's Tibetan quarter, a nervous young monk spoke of how police arrests of innocent people were adding to the climate of fear in China's Tibetan-inhabited regions.

World economic leaders turned their fire on the eurozone on Saturday at a Davos forum increasingly frustrated by the single currency bloc's struggle to come to grips with its debt crisis.

Myanmar's President Thein Sein will make a state visit to Singapore from Sunday till 1 February.

The Arab League suspended its controversial observer mission in Syria on Saturday as the bloodshed in a crackdown on anti-regime protests spiked and the death toll in four days topped 210.

Tiger Woods was poised to win his first full tournament in over two years at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on Sunday.

Twitter, championed as a tool of free expression during the Arab Spring, was facing censorship charges on Friday after announcing it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required to do so.

Delicate work to restore a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, to be unveiled in March, has turned into a headache for the Louvre, after experts accused the Paris museum of putting the precious oil work at risk.

Actress Demi Moore was convulsing and "burning up" after taking an unidentified drug when emergency services were called earlier this week, according to the 911 call released on Friday.

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