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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has described European lawmakers as "crazies" in a salty-tongued rebuttal to criticism of his deadly drug war, while vowing again that all traffickers will be killed.

We have probably all come across a situation when the coffee we ordered at a cafe made us say “this tastes like sh**t”, right? Well, that phrase actually contains some truth in it, and the information to follow could be a little unsettling for all those coffee lovers out there. Because the world’s most expensive coffee, which is priced at $70 per serving, is made from elephant poo!

During World War II, The Japanese Imperial Army captured Ramree Island in 1942. The island lies off the Burma coast, 70 miles south of Akyab, now known as Sittwe.

Since Ramree was strategically important, the Allies launched an attack in 1945 to retake the island and establish airbases to support the mainland campaign.

Myanmar's military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims has likely killed hundreds of people, with children slaughtered and women raped in a campaign that may amount to ethnic cleansing, the United Nations said on Feb. 3. 

A commission probing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state on Jan. 4 denied security forces have carried out a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya, days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from the Muslim minority.

Myanmar's government on Dec. 2 said it has detained several police officers over a video apparently showing Rohingya civilians being beaten, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority.

More than a dozen Nobel laureates on Dec. 29 urged the United Nations to "end the human crisis" of Myanmar's Rohingya minority group, whose members have been fleeing to Bangladesh to escape a bloody military crackdown.

Dinosaurs had feathered, chestnut brown tails with a pale underside, a newly found specimen reveals.
The tip of the tail was found preserved in an ancient blob of amber tree resin.
It belonged to a small, flightless dinosaur that lived in the mid-Cretaceous period around 99 million years ago.

Aung San Suu Kyi must step in to prevent the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Malaysia's prime minister said on Dec. 4 as he mocked the Nobel laureate for her inaction.

Five Nobel prize winners, including Turkey's laureate Orhan Pamuk, called on Dec. 1 for urgent international action to protect world heritage sites from the destruction wrought by extremist groups and conflicts.