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The movie has exceeded box office expectations, as China’s female moviegoers celebrate a film that addresses women’s rights head-on.

“Rooftoppers” get a thrill from taking photos atop skyscrapers and sharing them on social media. Detractors call them reckless.

A delivery room epiphany transformed a village headman into an unlikely and highly successful campaigner against prenatal sex testing, which often led to aborting female fetuses.

Thursday’s early-evening attack comes less than a month after another mass stabbing episode, also in the Seoul region, that left one victim dead and three injured.

Prosecutors said the two sailors in California gave Chinese intelligence officers U.S. military secrets and sensitive information.

Less than a month after another mass stabbing, 13 victims were sent to the hospital in a similar incident that also included five people being hit by a car. The episode is being treated as a “terrorist act.”

Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally.

The Japanese subsidiary of Warner Bros. criticized what it called insensitive promotion of “Barbie” by the company’s headquarters.

The same building housing Russian government offices was hit twice within 48 hours.

Italy falls for “Mare Fuori,” a television melodrama about the inmates of a juvenile detention center who pass the time making out — when not scowling at or occasionally stabbing one another.