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08 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell some of one of America's most beautiful national parks unless President Barack Obama's administration comes up with more money to pay for education in the financially troubled state.
08 Aug 10 | PARIS: Climate talks called by the United Nations are in danger of failing, delegates from both rich and developing nations said at the close of a week-long session in Germany.
08 Aug 10 | LOS ANGELES: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has weighed into the same-sex marriage legal battle by filing a motion demanding gays and lesbians be allowed to resume tying the knot immediately.
08 Aug 10 | BEIJING: Sixteen workers died when a fire broke out in a goldmine in east China, state media reported yesterday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's notoriously dangerous mining sector.
08 Aug 10 | THE HAGUE: A Dutch woman has been arrested for allegedly killing four of her babies over the past eight years and hiding their bodies in suitcases in the attic, investigators say.
08 Aug 10 | LONDON: FOUR British men have been jailed for between 16 and 23 years for their part in a record £40 million ($69.5 million) robbery from an exclusive London jewellery store.
08 Aug 10 | A STRUGGLE between BP and the Obama administration over the future of the capped well in the Gulf of Mexico has erupted because the oil company suggested it might drill in the same reservoir again.
08 Aug 10 | CLIMATE change has been blamed for floods that have killed thousands and left millions homeless from Pakistan to North Korea, fires and a heatwave in Russia that have left 5000 dead and disrupted global food markets, and a severe tropical storm threatening Bermuda.
08 Aug 10 | NELSON MANDELA may have fathered an illegitimate daughter during a brief affair with a woman he met in Cape Town in the 1940s, his foundation has admitted.
08 Aug 10 | KABUL: The Taliban says they killed ''Christian missionaries'' working in remote northern Afghanistan after the bullet-riddled bodies of six Americans, one German and a British national were found.
08 Aug 10 | KABUL: A candidate in Afghanistan's upcoming elections and two NATO soldiers have been killed in the country's volatile south, officials say.
08 Aug 10 | USRIYADH: The American embassy in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh has warned US citizens it has received credible information that they may be targeted for attack in the Al-Qassim district in the northwest of the city.
08 Aug 10 | Pakistan raced to evacuate families threatened with fresh floods on Saturday as heavy rains worsened the disaster in its second week.
08 Aug 10 | Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, Moscow residents struggled on Saturday against the worst smog in living memory, which has enveloped the Russian capital from spreading wildfire
07 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The US and Vietnam are negotiating on sharing nuclear fuel and civilian nuclear technology - discussions that have provoked a rebuke from China.
07 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: Hundreds of American military service members and contract employees have fallen ill with cancer or severe breathing problems after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. They say they were poisoned by thick, black smoke produced by the burning of tonnes of rubbish generated on US bases.
07 Aug 10 | A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a US state appeals court has found.
07 Aug 10 | Lebanon is the latest country to voice security fears about BlackBerry phones.
07 Aug 10 | BEIRUT: Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will present evidence on Monday purporting to implicate Israel in the car bomb assassination in 2005 of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
07 Aug 10 | Guides at this former stronghold are proud to show off an array of sophisticated weapons, writes Jason Koutsoukis in Mleeta, Lebanon.
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