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20 Aug 10 | THE son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has arranged for 500 young people from around the world to fly to Tripoli to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.
20 Aug 10 | MOSCOW: Ivan the Terrible boosted its production, Mikhail Gorbachev restricted its sale, and Boris Yeltsin wandered the streets of Washington in his underpants trying to hail a cab to look for pizza after drinking too much of it.
20 Aug 10 | FRANCE has been forced on to the defensive in Europe amid fears its decision to eliminate Gypsy camps - and forcibly deport foreign-born Roma people - will reignite xenophobia and violence.
20 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The number of Americans who believe - wrongly - that the President, Barack Obama, is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now accounts for nearly 20 per cent of the nation's population.
20 Aug 10 | Ned Parker follows the US Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the last formal US military combat detachment to leave Iraq.
20 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The last US combat brigade has filed out of Iraq, seven years and five months after coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003.
19 Aug 10 | An Australian man holidaying in the United States has been reportedly killed in a hit-and-run incident.
19 Aug 10 | The BlackBerry era will be thrust into the background with an auction today of deluxe fountain pens expected to fetch up to $US650,000 ($A720,000).
19 Aug 10 | Philippine police relieved all the officers in a city precinct on Wednesday after a television station aired footage purportedly showing police torturing a naked detainee.
19 Aug 10 | Forty-one people, including five foreigners, were killed when a packed bus plunged into a deep ravine in the northern Philippines, authorities said on Thursday.
19 Aug 10 | The US government plans to ease restrictions on Americans travelling to Cuba, which has been subjected to US sanctions since the early 1960s.
19 Aug 10 | REYKJAVIK: DNA tests on the body of the chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer show he is not the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines at the centre of a row over his estate, a lawyer for a rival claimant said.
19 Aug 10 | BOGOTA: Colombia's constitutional court has declared a US-Colombian agreement that gave the American military access to at least seven Colombian bases to be unconstitutional.
19 Aug 10 | JOHANNESBURG: South African public-sector unions, representing 1.3 million teachers, nurses and other state workers, have begun an indefinite strike after rejecting a government pay offer.
19 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has decided to support the creation of a United Nations commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma, a sign of a tougher US policy against a regime long accused of murdering and raping its political foes.
19 Aug 10 | SEOUL: South Koreans who post comments on North Korean Twitter accounts may fall foul of national security laws that bar the country's citizens from communicating with their old foes.
19 Aug 10 | SEOUL: A North Korean jet crashed in north-eastern China yesterday, killing the pilot, China's official Xinhua news agency reported. A South Korean report said it was a military pilot who may have been attempting to defect to Russia.
19 Aug 10 | JERUSALEM: The integrity of the Israel Defence Forces has again been called into question following the release of more photographs showing Israeli soldiers posing alongside bound and gagged Palestinians.
18 Aug 10 | Beeb boob: BBC weatherman gives the finger live on air.
18 Aug 10 | Convicted drug smuggler Scott Rush failed to make a scheduled court appearance in Denpasar, Bali, today after a mix-up caused his hearing to be delayed.
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