It took more than five years to build, but since its opening last year, the Guangzhou Opera House has become the jewel among the sprawling Chinese megacity's bland urban landscape.
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At least two people were killed in an explosion Monday in front of the International Relief and Development office in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed four people Sunday, intelligence officials told CNN.
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Two British civilians were among those killed in a suicide bombing in central Kabul Saturday that killed 13 NATO personnel, a British Embassy spokesman said Sunday.
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The world's population is expected to hit 7 billion around October 31 and one Chinese demographer says that number would have come a lot sooner had it not been for China's "one-child policy."
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