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06 Sep 10 | PARIS: Tens of thousands of people have protested in cities across France against a government law-and-order crackdown that has targeted Roma Gypsies.
06 Sep 10 | LONDON: A former head of the British Army has accused Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down the armed forces.
06 Sep 10 | Pakistanis are donating to a flood-relief appeal run by a front organisation for a banned terrorist group because they believe it to be more effective and trustworthy than others soliciting support, especially the government.
06 Sep 10 | THE Christchurch earthquake shook up more than the house and surroundings of 89-year-old Bob McCombe.
06 Sep 10 | TRAPANI, Sicily: Rising above the sun-scorched countryside, looking out over hilltop villages and vineyards, Italy's wind farms - promising a clean, green future - have acquired a dirtier whiff. They are the latest industry to be infiltrated by the country's mobsters.
06 Sep 10 | CHRISTCHURCH: The quake turned a modern, relatively prosperous city into a place of curfews, with political leaders flying in and people clamouring for supplies in scenes reminiscent of disasters in less developed parts of the world.
06 Sep 10 | SCIENTISTS believe not one but three earthquakes just seconds apart ripped a 13-kilometre gash across the Canterbury Plains and unleashed energy equivalent to 67 Hiroshima nuclear bombs speeding into Christchurch.
06 Sep 10 | THE earthquake that shattered Christchurch is expected to create a much-desired economic boost in a city hit by recession.
06 Sep 10 | John Garnaut reports from Beijing on the men who have run western China.
05 Sep 10 | LONDON: Two students have been sentenced to detention after setting fire to a friend in a drunken prank that went horribly wrong.
05 Sep 10 | PYONGYANG: North Korea is preparing its biggest political gathering in 30 years, fuelling speculation Kim Jong-il may use the forum to legitimatise a transfer of power to his youngest son, Kim Jong-u, as his own takeover was ensured at a 1980 summit.
05 Sep 10 | DUBLIN: Anti-war campaigners staged a protest against former British prime minister Tony Blair, (pictured), as he arrived at a Dublin television studio for an interview about his autobiography, police said.
05 Sep 10 | VENICE: Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo accepted a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, dedicating the honour to his ''dear mother''.
05 Sep 10 | COPIAPO, Chile: The 33 miners trapped in an underground mine in the country's north were to receive a message of unity yesterday from four survivors of the 1972 Andes Mountains plane crash, whose story is told in the movie Alive.
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.
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