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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein to discuss a smooth transfer of power after her party's election win. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein to discuss a smooth transfer of power after her party's election win. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein to discuss a smooth transfer of power after her party's election win. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein to discuss a smooth transfer of power after her party's election win. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

MELBOURNE, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The retirement of Mitchell Johnson, coupled with the injury cloud hanging over Mitchell Starc, will force Australia to dig deep into their pace reserves during the home summer but ready-made left-arm replacements are in short supply.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Dec 2 (Reuters) - The drilling rigs are gone from the hills surrounding this Pennsylvania town of 30,000. The hotels and bars are quieter too, no longer packed with the workers who flocked in their thousands to America's newest and biggest gas field.

LONDON (Reuters) - London police could deal with an attack by heavily armed marauding terrorists, one of the capital's most senior officers said on Wednesday, rejecting suggestions the mostly unarmed force would struggle to cope with a Paris-style assault.

SYDNEY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Australian shares edged down 0.15 percent on Wednesday on profit taking, with industrials weighing on the index although top performing banks minimised losses.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Waves of migrants moving through Slovenia on their way towards Germany and Austria are causing only a limited negative impact on its economy, Prime Minister Miro Cerar said on Tuesday.

NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi discussed the smooth transfer of power to her party with President Thein Sein on Wednesday, the first time the two have met since her National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a November election.

Police in London react to a simulated militant attack on a shopping centre in an annual exercise to keep firearms officers up to speed. Paul Chapman reports.

Police in London react to a simulated militant attack on a shopping centre in an annual exercise to keep firearms officers up to speed. Paul Chapman reports.

Police in London react to a simulated militant attack on a shopping centre in an annual exercise to keep firearms officers up to speed. Paul Chapman reports.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is named the best film of 2015 by the National Board of Review. Rollo Ross reports.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is named the best film of 2015 by the National Board of Review. Rollo Ross reports.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is named the best film of 2015 by the National Board of Review. Rollo Ross reports.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is named the best film of 2015 by the National Board of Review. Rollo Ross reports.

The Washington Post reports that the public is less concerned about climate change than it has been:

The prolific writer Kirkpatrick Sale offered a compelling argument for why the Confederacy should be remembered in his column of Nov. 23. He decried attempts to eradicate the symbols and history of the Confederate States of America and wrote that the Confederacy was "an embodiment of the Jeffersonian vision of an America in which...

The massive education legislation’s title sounds eerily familiar. But despite its utopian label, the new Every Student Succeeds Act would correct overreaching mistakes of the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President George W. Bush early in 2002.

On a Sunday morning several months ago I took two people, each with an intellectual disability, for breakfast at a restaurant on a side street at Folly Beach. There were no handicapped spaces available anywhere near the restaurant. There was no way one of the people could walk very far. I couldn’t leave them at the restaurant while I...

There are over 4 million Syrians scattered across the globe, about the entire population of South Carolina. In the past week, I have seen these innocent people compared to dogs, snakes and terrorists, simply because they had the audacity to flee a war and practice a different religion than most Americans.

I visited the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., over the holiday weekend. Two things struck me as horribly similar to what we’re seeing today in the Republican presidential race.

The usual "sky is falling" arguments offered by the anti-everything crowd are growing to a fever pitch as they drive to Columbia in their gas-fueled vehicles to protest the oil industry.

Brian Hicks should be commended for his tell-it-like-it-is column "On the front lines of the real holiday wars." The holiday shopping frenzy has indeed begun.