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05 Sep 10 | Buildings crumbled, roads buckled and shattered glass showered the streets of Christchurch yesterday when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's second-largest city.
05 Sep 10 | An 18-year-old Victorian man was among nine people killed in a light plane crash near a popular tourist attraction in New Zealand - hours after an earthquake stunned the nation.
05 Sep 10 | The most damaging earthquake to hit New Zealand in almost eight decades flattened buildings, opened giant chasms in roads, buckled roads and railway lines and left hundreds homeless in the South Island.
04 Sep 10 | BEIJING: In the sweltering heat of summer, when the refreshing breezes desert the city, Hu Lianqun absent-mindedly reaches for a solution: he rolls up his shirt to expose his belly, often fanning himself with the garment to create his own airconditioning.
04 Sep 10 | BANGKOK: There is a gorilla on the seventh floor of a department store in Bangkok.
04 Sep 10 | TOKYO: Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town of Taiji, environmental activists say.
04 Sep 10 | JAKARTA: A broad consensus is emerging in Indonesia that special autonomy for the country's fractious provinces of Papua and West Papua has failed miserably.
04 Sep 10 | Divers who found what is believed to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at the site of a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
04 Sep 10 | Philippine police decided against shooting a sacked colleague who hijacked a tourist bus because they wanted to ''save'' him along with his Hong Kong hostages, an inquiry into the fiasco was told yesterday.
04 Sep 10 | People power is subverting the Republican establishment, writes Simon Mann in Washington.
04 Sep 10 | ROME: A Europe-wide backlash against Gypsies gathered pace as Rome began demolishing shanty settlements.
04 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: BP has warned US Congress that if legislation is passed barring the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
04 Sep 10 | The yearning for silence amid London's incessant bustle has led to increasingly frequent weekend forays into the English countryside, a world redolent with images from stories read in bed as little children. Weeping willows, rolling meadows and ancient stone walls, brooks that really do babble and chatter, and wee groves made for Famous Five-style picnics complete with strawberries and lashings of cream.
04 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to a timetable for talks that would seek to narrow their differences and commit to overcoming the weight of history.
04 Sep 10 | But the tabloid is facing serious allegations of its own, writes Paola Totaro in London.
04 Sep 10 | THERE is nothing a like a visit to the southern West Bank city of Hebron to dispel any hopes of a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
04 Sep 10 | LONG-TERM use of drugs prescribed for osteoporosis may be doubling the users' risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus, a study warns.
04 Sep 10 | CHINA plans to extend its reach into Antarctica - by building a new ice-breaker ship, purchasing a plane and helicopters and upgrading its base into a year-round facility - in line with its rapidly expanding global profile.
04 Sep 10 | KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has formed a taskforce to scour the internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, in the latest action against new media.
04 Sep 10 | LISBON: A child sex abuse trial that has lasted almost six years entered its last day after producing chilling testimony from dozens of alleged victims, shaking public trust in Portugal's institutions.
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