As the train rattled into Indonesia's capital, 19-year-old Wiwit Wahyuningsih leaned back in a soft, pink-cushioned seat in a carriage newly designated exclusively for women.

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Indonesian train now has women-only carriages

As the train rattled into Indonesia's capital, 19-year-old Wiwit Wahyuningsih leaned back in a soft, pink-cushioned seat in a carriage newly designated exclusively for women.

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Indonesian train now has women-only carriages

A group of rare survivors of the Khmer Rouge's main prison said Thursday they accepted the sentence handed to their former jailer Duch, having initially criticised it as too lenient.

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KRouge jail survivors grow to accept Duch sentence

An unemployed book dealer who paraded as a wealthy playboy was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for possessing a stolen first edition of Shakespeare's plays, a rare volume described as a "quintessentially English treasure."

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Book dealer gets jail for stolen Shakespeare tome

A longtime Alaska comic book buff is selling one of the gems in his vast collection, a rare copy of Batman No. 1 published 70 years ago.

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Comic book buff selling rare copy of Batman No. 1

Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inception" has won a battle of superstar action thrillers over Angelina Jolie's "Salt" at the weekend box office.

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'Inception' trumps 'Salt' with $43.5M weekend

A Cambridge University graduate nicknamed the "Tome Raider," who has stolen more than one million pounds' worth of rare books in his criminal career, has been jailed for 3-1/2 years for his latest theft.

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"Tome Raider" antique book thief jailed again

Thousands of fans of the Middle Ages on Saturday donned their tabards and lowered their visors to relive the heady days of 1410, when a Polish-Lithuanian army smashed the Teutonic Knights.

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Tabards on, visors down: fans relive 1410 Battle of Grunwald

"The Cookbook Collector" (The Dial Press, $26), by Allegra Goodman: Allegra Goodman's "The Cookbook Collector" tells the story of two sisters, Emily and Jess. Emily is the responsible sister; Jess is the whimsical one.

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Review: 'Cookbook Collector' overcooks good story

The tour guide stood in Taiwan's National Palace Museum lobby, waving a tattered green pennant. She was trying to round up a group of Chinese tourists from Jiangsu Province in the first day of a weeklong tour of the island.

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Taiwan welcomes Chinas tourism boom. But Chinese tourists, not so much