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A nest containing 43 dinosaur egg fossils was found in the city of Heyuan in southern China's Guangdong province, Xinhua state news agency said.

Annah Sophia Stevenson told Fairfax New Zealand that she bought a Big Mac meal on Saturday night then found the cockroach when she was back at home and part-way through eating the burger.

The report of al-Douri's death was not the first time Iraqi officials have claimed to have killed or captured the 72-year-old former aide to Saddam.

Security rules prohibit aircraft from flying in the area of the Capitol and the White House without permission.

Home Ministry officials said the name of the scheme - 'Tourist visa on arrival enabled by electronic travel authorisation (TVoA-ETA)' was creating confusion among tourists.

Young women and girls are being subjected to forced marriage, forced labour and rape, while students and teachers are being deliberately targeted.

Twenty-eight men and women have been fined or jailed for attending an alcohol-fuelled sex party on a yacht in Dubai, reports said on Monday.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain in the French Alps.

While calling the emerging deal a bad one, he said the choice was not only between a bad deal or war.

An Indian couple was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Colombo on Friday, prompting Sri Lankan police to launch an investigation.

It was by far the highest death toll in an attack by al-Shabab, an Islamic extremist group from neighboring Somalia, on Kenyan soil.

The recording lasting just a few seconds showed that passengers knew what was happening to them before the plane slammed into a mountain.

All the Boko Haram attacks took place in northeastern Nigeria, where the military Friday announced it had cleared the Islamic extremists from all major centers, including the headquarters of their so-called Islamic caliphate.

The statement came after the New York Times reported that "black box" recordings showed one of the pilots had left the cockpit and could not get back in before the plane crashed, killing all 150 onboard.

Pakistan, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan were also joining the operation, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.

Officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan said in February that the Afghan Taliban had signalled they were willing to open peace talks with Kabul.