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American pastor pressing on with plan to burn the Koran
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - The leader of a Florida church yesterday said he plans to go ahead with burning copies of the Koran on 11 September, despite pressure from the White House, Vatican and others
Rape toll in eastern Congo doubled in UN's special report
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - MORE than 500 rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July, more than double the number previously reported.
Clan planned massacre of 57 people over dinner,
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - A SERVANT of a clan accused of massacring 57 people - including 30 journalists - told a court yesterday the family plotted the killings over dinner.
Sarkozy refuses to back down as 'austerity' protests escalate
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - FRENCH unions last night vowed to hold fresh protests over controversial pension reforms, as President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to back down despite nationwide protests on Tues
Sayed Salahuddin: Why Karzai might be the first victim of anti-graft fight
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - Afghan president Hamid Karzai might talk tough about dealing with endemic corruption that has weakened his country for so long, but tangible results have been hard to find.
Sri Lankans vote for an unlimited presidency
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - Sri Lanka's parliament voted to remove limits on presidential terms yesterday in a move critics fear could lead to dictatorship.
Sentence is suspended in stoning case
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after weeks of condemnation around the world
Ten held in swoop on film pirates
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - TEN people have been arrested in raids carried out by police across Europe against hackers who distribute illegal copies of films and television series on the internet.
Gypsy policy 'like Nazi's'
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - A GYPSY leader has compared French president Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania's pro-Nazi wartime leader, Marshal Ion Antonescu, following the expulsion of hundreds of Roma.
Rwanda talks
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon met Rwanda's president Paul Kagame yesterday after he threatened to withdraw peacekeepers if the UN publishes a report accusing his army o
Nine tourists die as bus overturns in Morocco
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - NINE people died and 14 were injured yesterday when a bus carrying 47 Portuguese tourists overturned in northern Morocco. The bus was travelling from the Spanish enclave of Ce
Three face charges over car bomb bid
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber meet militant leaders and given him funds, a senior police o
Inquiry after plane trundles off runway
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - Russian aviation investigators have launched an inquiry into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled off a runway into a forest.
Karzai's brother admits bank loan
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - THE brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai yesterday said he made at least £600,000 by buying and then selling a luxury Dubai villa using a loan provided by the chairman of
EU to cut number of laboratory animals
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - The European Parliament has adopted a proposal to lower the number of animals used in lab tests from the current figure of 12 million a year.
Man, 90, jailed for hammer murder
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - A 90-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday sentenced to 17 and a half years in a US prison for battering his wife of nearly 68 years to death with a hammer.
Denial over CIA 'secret prison'
09-09-2010 02:00:00 - THE former Polish president, who was in office when the CIA is suspected of running a secret prison there, says he has no knowledge of interrogation of terrorist suspects.
France in turmoil as strikers attack rise in retirement age
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - ALMOST half a million anti-government protesters took to the streets of France yesterday in a day of strikes over controversial pension reform plans which caused widespread di
Julia Gillard holds onto Australian premiership
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independents threw their support behind her centre-left Labor Party yesterday, ending t
Gang preparing jailed neo-Nazis for violence on release is raided
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - NATIONWIDE swoops on a neo-Nazi group that has infiltrated jailed right-wingers to prepare them for violence when back on the outside took place across Germany yesterday.
17 killed in Pakistan bomb attack as UN seeks more aid for flood victims
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - A CAR bomb ripped through a police compound in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving tha
John Whitesides: Democrats look more and more likely to lose Congress
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - Democrats look more and more likely to lose Congress
World News: US government urges church leader to halt Koran protest
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - The US government has turned up the pressure on the head of a small church who plans to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, warning him that doing so could endanger US t
Minister told 'bonfire of Korans' will damage US
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - A CHRISTIAN minister says he will continue with plans to burn copies of the Koran this weekend to protest over the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks, despite a warning from
Slovenian mass grave could contain about 700 bodies, officials say
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - The bodies of about 700 people have been found in a mass grave in Slovenia, 65 years after they were herded into the woods and slain by anti-fascist groups seeking revenge on
Food price rises reversed after deadly riots
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - Mozambique's government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the country's planning minister said yesterday.
Mental health tests for flight attendant
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured global attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will under
South Africa returns to work
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - Hundreds of thousands of South African state workers returned to work yesterday after suspending a disruptive three-week strike which hit schools and hospitals.
Stoning sentence deemed 'barbaric'
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - The European Union yesterday described the sentence of stoning to death passed against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery as "barbaric".
Fresh aftershocks strike Christchurch
08-09-2010 02:00:00 - A SERIES of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch yesterday, and experts warned that another powerful shock might hammer the regio