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Jazz farewell to city's lost souls
IN LIFE they had names and loved ones. In death they became mere numbers, with only a group of strangers to mourn their passing.
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Obama issues rallying cry for 'change'
BARACK Obama put meat on the bones of his promise of "change" with a tub-thumping speech at Denver's Invesco Field football stadium on Thursday ? but only the poll
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X-Files actor checks in to rehab over sex addiction
IN AN unfortunate case of life imitating art, actor David Duchovny has been admitted to a rehab clinic for sex addiction.
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Russian bombs fell 50m from oil pipeline
RUSSIAN planes dropped bombs this month within 50 metres of a pipeline that British oil company BP was in the process of reopening through Georgia, according to witnesses.
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Obama: I'll tax rich to help middle classes
BARACK Obama put meat on the bones of his promise of "change" with a tub-thumping speech at Denver's Invesco Field football stadium on Thursday ? but only the poll
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Welcome to M*A*S*H, Afghanistan-style
FROM the outside it's a prefabricated building in the midst of the desert, an unremarkable, one-storey white block. Inside, it may be the busiest trauma hospital in the
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Drugged girl, 15, a reluctant bomb martyr
RANIA is only 15, but in the past week the softly-spoken Iraqi girl has been drugged and strapped with explosives, before being arrested and thrown into a detention centre.
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Out to prove he has credentials for the job
AS A SPECTACLE, Barack Obama's speech accepting the Democratic party's presidential nomination was in a class of its own. No other candidate would have risked deliveri
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McCain picks Alaskan 'hockey mom' as No2
REPUBLICAN John McCain made a surprise choice of Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, as his running mate yesterday, adding a political unknown to the ticket who coul
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Just for the record: the Oz Olympic music was phoney too
CHINA is not the only country to fake a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony. It turns out that Australia also knows a thing or two about miming music.
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Zardari urged to quit presidential race over mental health claims
THE widower of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto should withdraw as a candidate for president because of questions about his mental health, a rival c
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Republicans will have to get it right
KATRINA was a natural disaster that turned into a political one for the Bush administration. Gustav, on course for the Gulf Coast just over three years later, could offer the
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Fighting talk on overseas objectives
If BARACK Obama promised to transform America at home, he was no less ambitious in the foreign policy arena. He promised to end the war in Iraq "responsibly" and "
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Karadzic tells war crimes trial: I refuse to enter plea
THE United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, to war crimes and genocide
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Bilingual appeal in double murder case
DETECTIVES investigating the brutal murder of two Chinese graduates launched a bilingual poster appeal for information yesterday.
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Grains of evidence lead to thieves
POLICE said four thieves have been arrested because they left a trail of rice from a raid on a warehouse in Bacolod in the central Philippines.
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Air firm planned to replace crash plane
SPANAIR had considered replacing a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 jet just an hour before 154 people were killed when it crashed last week.
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Gold wreath find in ancient grave dig
A PRICELESS gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land mine.
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Mugabe's reward for golden girl
ZIMBABWE president Robert Mugabe yesterday handed the country's only Olympic medallist in Beijing a $100,000 cash reward for her performance at the games.
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Iran comes clean on nuclear figures
IRAN has 4,000 working nuclear centrifuges, an official said yesterday, in line with the number verified by the UN atomic watchdog but fewer than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the pr
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Obama claims the Democratic presidential nomination
BARACK OBAMA claimed the Democratic presidential nomination, moving onward in his quest to become the first black US president and asking Americans to join him in saying "
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Clinton takes Democrats by storm with simple message: Obama is ready ? back him
BILL Clinton turned from villain to hero in the space of 20 minutes at the Democratic national convention in Denver. That was the time it took to deliver a no-holds-barred en
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Russian warning on Nato warships
RUSSIA has issued a stark warning over what it says is a build-up of Nato ships in the Black Sea, as tensions rise to their highest level since the outbreak of hostilities
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Najaf - City's path to golden future
THE city's first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land prices are soaring. Merchants say they don't remember business ever
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End looms for Tamil Tigers as army push is set to take final stronghold
AGGRESSIVE Sri Lankan government forces continue to push deeper into the Tamil Tiger heartland and are now within reach of their administrative capital, raising hopes that the
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