 | Author Tan Twan Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia’s top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya. |
 | Four years ago in Mexico, China’s new president provided a rare glimpse of a leader who was born into a revolutionary aristocracy and came of age in the tumult of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. |
 | Scott Prouty was at a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year as the bartender, and ended up secretly taping a video that changed the trajectory of the 2012 presidential campaign. |
 | After months of deliberation and a rigorous selection process, Dubai’s very own Vikas Pota has been selected the ‘Young Global Leader’. |
 | BERLIN — As a 22-year-old German army lieutenant, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist volunteered to wear a suicide vest to a meeting with Adolf Hitler and to blow himself up along with the Nazi dictator. |
 | US First Lady Michelle Obama has been named the most stylish woman in the world beating Queen Elizabeth and Victoria Beckham. |
 | Sjón. He says you say his name “like you say ‘bone’”. But that doesn’t really work. More like: c-yon. |
 | For a book that has yet to be released, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” — part feminist manifesto, part how-to career guide — has got a lot of people talking. |
 | Aung San Suu Kyi was re-elected as Myanmar opposition leader on Sunday at a landmark congress that stopped short of sweeping changes in its ageing top ranks ahead of key elections in 2015. |
 | Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday called for her once-banned party to unify amid concerns that internal squabbles could undermine its push for power at historic polls in 2015. |
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