How South Korean group BTS became the world's biggest boy band

BTS has achieved huge success internationally -- but they're hardly the first K-pop band to try to break through. So why has the seven-member boy band succeeded where others haven't?

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Seven climbers and guide missing in Indian Himalayas

A search is underway for seven climbers -- four Britons, two Americans and an Australian -- and their Indian guide, who went missing a week ago during an expedition in the Indian Himalayas, local authorities say.

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What it's really like to scale Everest's deadly peak

"Happy anniversary, my love. I can't wait to see you again," 34-year-old Ian Stewart told his wife, Katie, as they said their goodbyes at Mount Everest base camp. "I promise I will come back home, that I won't prioritize the summit over my safety."

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The Korean group have managed to break in America, despite not being the most famous Korean band at home.

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The Pakistan city where almost 700 people have been infected with HIV

In a small farming community in southern Pakistan, villagers will no longer shake Hazar Khan Seelro's hand.

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Tiananmen protests were not 'suppressed,' Chinese government says

The massacre of unarmed citizens by soldiers in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, should not be referred to as "suppression," a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters Thursday.

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Rival South China Sea visions in spotlight

With China-US relations already strained amid an escalating trade war, attention is about to turn to a familiar arena -- the South China Sea.

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