WATCH: Amazing Fireworks Light Up The Metro Manila Skyline In This Stunning Video From NYE 2014

New Year’s Eve in Metro Manila always makes for an amazing sight. The best place to watch all those rockets and firecrackers from is often high up, and below is a short video that gives you the best seat in the country to relive the start of 2015, or to let you experience NYE 2014 in Manila if you couldn’t be here in person. Sit back and enjoy the explosion of color and noise that was Metro Manila at midnight, thanks to this footage shot from...

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Asia-Pacific New Year's stampede kills 35 in Shanghai

Authorities had earlier cancelled a New Year's countdown at the location due to crowd concerns [Reuters] At least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured after a stampede broke out during New Year's celebrations in the Chinese city of Shanghai, state-run media has said. Citing Sina News, CCTV America said the the cause of the stampede on the Bund, the financial hub of Shanghai's popular waterfront area, was still unclear. At...

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Hackers leak details of 13k users of PlayStation, Xbox and Amazon

A gang of internet hackers claims it has leaked personal details of more than 13,000 users of PlayStation, Xbox and sites including Amazon in what appears to be the latest high-profile breach of internet security in recent weeks. The hackers - who say they are affiliated to Anonymous, the shadowy anarchist hacking collective - released a document containing username and password combinations, with credit card numbers and expiry dates added...

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Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 believed to have crashed in Belitung waters

Family members of passengers of missing AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 gather at Juanda international airport in Surabaya in East Java on Dec 28, 2014, hours after news broke that the flight went missing. PHOTO: AFP AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore is believed to have crashed at the location 03.22.46 South and 108.50.07 East, in waters around 80-100 nautical miles from Belitung, a National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas)...

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AirAsia flight QZ8501: Plane en route from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic

An Air Asia flight travelling from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control, Metro TV reported on Sunday. -- PHOTO: ST FILE An AirAsia Indonesia plane travelling from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday morning. Flight QZ8501 has 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. The passengers include 149 Indonesians, one Singaporean, one British, one Malaysian and three Koreans....

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Check out the aftermath of the Christmas celebrations in Kunming, China

Christmas Eve was a night of mayhem in Kunming, with 110,000 reveler out on the streets spraying each other with cans of artificial snow in a 3-hour carnival-like event from 8pm to 11pm. The aftermath of the party left the city in a mess, with heaps of empty spray cans and garbage that took cleaners hours to clean up. Source: Shanghaii...

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