We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages. […]
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. […]
AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The United States has whisked its remaining diplomats out of Syria and suspended operations at its embassy in Damascus as violence there continues to increase, U.S. officials told ABC News.The skeletal staff, including Ambassador Robert Ford, departed quietly despite being denied exit visas by Syrian authorities in some cases, […]
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- A helicopter operated by the International Security Assistance Force crashed Monday in eastern Afghanistan."There were no fatalities and the crew has been safely recovered to a nearby forward operating base," the military said in a Monday press release. "The site has been secured and initial report […]
John Stillwell - Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- In 1952, the woman known today as Queen Elizabeth II was just Elizabeth, a 25-year-old member of England's royal family visiting a remote village in Kenya.When word came on Feb. 6 of that year that her father, George VI, had died, Elizabeth cut her trip short and flew home to London. She was greeted at the […]
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