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  • Ida grows into a hurricane

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats as Ida strengthened into a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.



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  • Dalai Lama angers China with visit to Tawang

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    The Dalai Lama brushed off Chinese protests and travelled Sunday to tis remote Himalayan town Tawang near the Tibetan border to lead five days of prayer and teaching sessions for Buddhist pilgrims.

  • Vanuatu's volcano brings in the tourists

    Vanuatu's volcano brings in the tourists

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    It's been rumbling and bubbling for hundreds of years, and tourists are still clambering to get close to Vanuatu's Mt Yasur volcano.

  • Man makes replica Berlin Wall with chocolate

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Award-winning French chocolatier Patrick Roger is commemorating the fall of communism with a 15m long and 900kg chocolate reproduction of the Berlin Wall.

  • US House passes historic health reform bill

    US House passes historic health reform bill

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night (US time).

  • NSW hit by flooding

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Australian emergency services were helping residents of New South Wales on Sunday mop up after torrential rains, as some 200 people remain cut off by the flooding, according to reports by Australian news agencies.

  • British lottery winners £45 million better off

    British lottery winners £45 million better off

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    European lottery officials say two British ticketholders have shared a jackpot of £90 million - the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the United Kingdom.




  • Poor Alabama county celebrates 'Obama Day'

    Poor Alabama county celebrates 'Obama Day'

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the first black US president, Barack Obama.

  • Swine flu fears can't stop the hajj

    Swine flu fears can't stop the hajj

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to take precautions.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall marked 20 years on

    Fall of the Berlin Wall marked 20 years on

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Massive colourful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

  • US to look at life in prison for juveniles

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

  • Fort Hood gunman showed signs he was about to crack

    Fort Hood gunman showed signs he was about to crack

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.

  • Wanted British man dislikes mug shot, sends in new picture

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local newspaper because he didn't like the mug shot they had printed of him.

  • UN calls on Karzai to fight corruption

    UN calls on Karzai to fight corruption

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    The UN Security Council joined calls Friday on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to fight corruption, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling the country's political situation "delicate" following deeply flawed elections.

  • Night club promoter turns water crusader

    Night club promoter turns water crusader

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    New Yorkers are being challenged not to take for granted the water that runs from their taps. A night club promoter turned charity owner is taking on his own city and confronting residents about the basic necessity millions in the world are missing out on.

  • Moment of silence held for gunman's victims

    Moment of silence held for gunman's victims

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    US President Barack Obama said on Friday the entire nation is grieving for those killed at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings.

  • Drunk, vomiting man calls 911 to report marijauna stolen

    Drunk, vomiting man calls 911 to report marijauna stolen

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.

  • Democrats struggle for final healthcare votes

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes.

  • Neighbour: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment

    Neighbour: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbour said Friday.

  • 'Baguette' problem halts work on Large Hadron Collider

    'Baguette' problem halts work on Large Hadron Collider

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    The Large Hadron Collider suffered yet another setback this week when a bird dropped a piece of bread onto it.

  • Israeli president calls for Abbas to stay

    Israeli president calls for Abbas to stay

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

  • Hitler is a football manager, say British kids

    Hitler is a football manager, say British kids

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    A survey in Britain carried out for a war veterans' charity has found that one in 20 schoolchildren think Adolf Hitler is a German football manager, and one in six youngsters think Auschwitz was a theme park.

  • Swine flu shuts down Slovaka-Ukraine border

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Slovakia is to close all but one road border crossing with Ukraine today because of Ukraine's swine flu epidemic.

  • Canada charges Rwandan man with war crimes

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    Canadian police have charged a Rwandan immigrant with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

  • UN accuses US of delaying food aid to Somalia

    UN accuses US of delaying food aid to Somalia

    Sun, 08th Nov

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    The United Nations says it's running out of food for millions of starving Somalis in part because the United States is delaying aid amid fears it could be intercepted by militants linked to al-Qaeda.

  • Space elevators make the jump from science fiction to fact

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated - and rewarding.

  • Woman passes driving test on 950th attempt

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.

  • Climate change talks centre on economic imbalances

    Climate change talks centre on economic imbalances

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    The world's top financial officials on Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fighting climate change.

  • Wife fakes kidnapping to scam husband - who's sticking by her

    Wife fakes kidnapping to scam husband - who's sticking by her

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community.

  • 1 dead and 5 hurt in Orlando shooting

    1 dead and 5 hurt in Orlando shooting

    Sat, 07th Nov

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    A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.