From modified go-karts to submarines, fitted into suitcases or books, smugglers look to ingenious new methods to sneak past the authorities. Here are some examples:
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A 15-year-old boy who killed his mother and sister because he believed there were too many people in the world was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital, said a Hong Kong news report.
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Teacher jailed with a bail of $23million for gagging school children, putting roaches on their faces and feeding them semen.
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Heavy snow that has blanketed northern Japan for weeks, triggering avalanches and affecting transport networks, has left at least 55 people dead, said officials.
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Indigenous Panamanians protesting a proposed mining law have shut down a section of the Pan-American highway for a second day, demanding that a mining ban in their homeland remain in place.
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The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants in a U.S.-backed airstrike that would mark one of the region's biggest anti-terror successes in recent years.
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It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.
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As his kidnappers took him in a speeding boat toward a notorious militant stronghold in the southern Philippines, Ivan Sarenas decided that he would die if he didn't try to escape. When he saw some fishermen, he took his chance, diving deep and hoping his armed captors wouldn't shoot.
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Britain appointed its first ambassador to war-torn Somalia for 21 years, Foreign Secretary William Hague said, as he made a landmark visit to the anarchic capital Mogadishu.
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Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails have hurled slippers at an armored vehicle carrying visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon into the Gaza Strip.
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The Egyptian government sacked the head of security in the northern city of Port Said after an explosion of football violence that left 74 people dead, state media reported.
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The mother of a 12-year-old girl strip-searched by police during a drug raid said she was outraged in a case that has sparked a public outcry and calls for a review of the law.
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Rescuers have plucked 50 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.
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