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Single women wear wedding dresses during a match-making ball with 21 Chinese billionaires in Beijing. Tickets for the event cost £9,000 a head

Lonely hearts club only billionaires can join

It was Beijing's most lavish party yet. The aim: to find partners for 21 lovelorn tycoons

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Andrew Buncombe: An epiphany born out of disaster

Thursday, 24 December 2009

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Paratrooper killed in Helmand

Thursday, 24 December 2009

A British paratrooper serving with special forces has been killed in a notoriously violent area of southern Afghanistan.

Christmas Day verdict for China's dissident

Thursday, 24 December 2009

A court tried a high-profile Chinese dissident yesterday on subversion charges with the verdict set to be announced on Christmas Day, according to a relative of the defendant.

Japanese student charged with bathtub murder

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Tatsuya Ichihashi was charged today with the rape and murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker.

Paratrooper killed in notoriously violent area

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

A British paratrooper serving with special forces has been killed in a notoriously violent area of southern Afghanistan, sources said today.

China opens state-backed gay bar to fight spread of Aids

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

China's first government-backed gay bar has finally opened, very discreetly, after the original scheduled launch was delayed for almost three weeks due to intense media attention.

A US soldier takes a break during a night mission in Kunar Province

Review of the Year 2009: Afghanistan

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Battle-weary, but digging in for a long haul

Judge orders 'an ear for an ear'

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

A Pakistani court has ordered that two brothers should have their noses and ears cut off after they were found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them, a government prosecutor said yesterday.

Key events in the case of murdered teacher Lindsay Hawker

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Japanese prosecutors charged Tatsuya Ichihashi today with the rape and murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker in March 2007.

Second soldier 'killed in friendly fire'

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

The British serviceman's death is the second incident being investigated in Afghanistan this week, the Ministry of Defence said today.

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