Saudi Arabia Beheads Young Sri Lankan Maid

A young Sri Lankan housemaid has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for killing a baby who was in her care. Rizana Nafeek had denied strangling the four-month-old baby in 2005 and the execution came despite global appeals to call it off because she was only...

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China: Censorship Row Newspaper Published

By Mark Stone, China Correspondent, in Guangzhou A Chinese newspaper at the centre of a strike over censorship has been published after journalists and Communist Party officials appeared to reach a tentative agreement. A supporter chants slogans...

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Bushfire Rages Towards Unexploded Bomb Site

Firefighters in Australia are racing against the clock to prevent a bushfire from spreading to a former weapons range littered with unexploded bombs before another heatwave hits parts of the country. The blaze is burning 2km from the Tianjara plateau...

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India Gang Rape: Men 'Beaten For Confessions'

A lawyer for three of the men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in Delhi has accused the police of brutality. Speaking before a hearing at the city's Saket District Court, ML Sharma claimed the men had been beaten while in custody....

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India: New Gang Rape And Murder 'Covered Up'

The family of a woman who was gang raped and murdered in Noida, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, claim the police tried to cover up the attack because one of the alleged culprits was wealthy. The semi-naked and bruised body of the 22-year-old woman...

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Syria: Another Missile Fired, Says Nato

A short-range ballistic missile has been fired again inside Syria, following similar launches last week, a Nato official has said. "We detected the launch of an unguided, short-range ballistic missile inside Syria yesterday (Wednesday). This follows...

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Two Trains Collide In Northern Switzerland

At least 17 people have been hurt after two trains collided at a station in northern Switzerland. The trains, one from Winterthur and the other from Schaffhausen, crashed near the station of Neuhausen-am-Rheinfall, not far from the German border, at...

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Japan Luck Race Won By Student

A student has beaten more than 4,500 runners in an annual dawn race around the Nishinomiya shrine in central Japan. Japanese mythology says that the winner of the 230-metre race will be blessed with a year of good luck. And if that was not reward enough,...

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Half Of All Food Produced Is 'Thrown Away'

As much as half of all the food produced in the world - two billion tonnes worth - ends up being thrown away, a new report claims. The waste is caused by poor infrastructure and storage facilities, over-strict sell-by dates, "get-one-free" offers, and...

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Oscar Nominations: Lincoln Heads Field

Lincoln leads the way in nominations for the 85th Academy Awards - with Daniel Day-Lewis the major British acting hope for an Oscar. Day-Lewis' nomination as 'best actor' is one of 12 gongs the historical drama about the former US president is in the...

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