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If you're on a quest to sit on pillows and you're not out to impress a first date, hit up the well-trafficked Ali Baba's Cave in the lower Haight and see if the big nook is available. If so ...

Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, making him the first senior leader from China to address global concerns about ...

It actually is Ali Baba’s cave for secondhand books. Opened atop a basement car park in 2012, Mahila Haat overlooks the ...

When folklore character Ali Baba uttered the immortal words “open sesame” in front of a sealed cave, he managed to open a rich trove of treasures and set in train a round of exhilarating ...