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16 Jul 10 | LONDON: Europe's love affair with Barack Obama appears to have cooled dramatically, with the European Union's most powerful figure making an unprecedented call for refreshed trans-Atlantic relations.
16 Jul 10 | LONDON: Britain's overseas intelligence service, MI6, faces questions about security failures that allowed a graduate recruit to smuggle top secret files out of its headquarters and try to sell them to another country.
16 Jul 10 | A SENIOR member of a Rwandan political party has been murdered in the third attack on a critic of the government within a month.
16 Jul 10 | PARIS: A French property tycoon enraged at his government's plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1 million ($1.4 million) to help any Muslim who is fined for wearing the niqab in the street.
16 Jul 10 | THE United States has condemned Fiji's expulsion of Australia's top diplomat as ''deplorable'', saying the timing, just ahead of the next Pacific Islands Forum meeting, had undermined an opportunity to re-engage with its neighbours.
16 Jul 10 | ROME: The Vatican issued a new set of norms yesterday to respond to the worldwide clerical abuse scandal, cracking down on priests who rape and molest minors and the mentally disabled.
16 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: US officials say the Iranian nuclear scientist who has returned home to a hero's welcome after claiming to have been abducted by the CIA was paid more than $US5 million ($5.6 million) to provide intelligence on Iran's nuclear program.
16 Jul 10 | LONDON: BP plans to start drilling off Libya's coast, as it faces questions from US legislators over whether it assisted the release of the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in exchange for drilling rights.
16 Jul 10 | LONDON: As violence in Belfast continued for a fourth night, analysts warned those behind the rioting may be trying to challenge one of the linchpins of power-sharing in Northern Ireland: the transfer earlier this year of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast.
16 Jul 10 | The ordination of women as Catholic priests is a "crime against the faith" along with paedophilia, the Vatican says.
16 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: A US law banning "fleeting expletives" on television, mostly profanities uttered accidentally during live broadcasts, has been thrown out by an appeals court because it threatened free speech "at the heart of the First Amendment".
15 Jul 10 | Belfast riot police braced for a second night of conflict with Irish nationalists on Monday as Protestants from the conservative Orange Order brotherhood mounted their divisive annual marches across Northern Ireland.
15 Jul 10 | Sarah Palin's daughter is to marry her sometime boyfriend, father of her infant son and nemesis of her former vice-presidential candidate mother - who had not been told of the engagement, Us magazine reports.
15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: Attention, single women: your willingness to give a man your phone number may have more to do with the music in the air than with his looks or his line.
15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: The US Senate plans to pass the biggest rewrite of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression, with Democrats hoping to springboard from that success into a last-gasp legislative program before Congress's summer recess.
15 Jul 10 | Global mangrove forests are being lost up to four times faster than land forests, the first international assessment in more than a decade has shown.
15 Jul 10 | WHEN he was seven, Stephen Katsaros took apart the box fan in his bedroom and reassembled it using a bigger, stronger motor.
15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: An Iroquois nations team en route to tour England were stranded in New York last night because of a visa row between the United States and Britain.
15 Jul 10 | SHANGHAI: China is looking at closing its network of labour camps, allowing an unprecedented public debate over the controversial program.
15 Jul 10 | FOR the first time in 26 years, doctors are pushing to change the way Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed.
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