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20 Nov 09 | LONDON: Before she had turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her.
20 Nov 09 | CAIRO: One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked outrage after releasing a song that refers to black Egyptians as monkeys.
20 Nov 09 | NEW DELHI: Each morning about 800,000 Delhi women leave their own small homes to dust, clean, cook and wash in bigger ones.
20 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press.
20 Nov 09 | BRUSSELS: Herman Van Rompuy won the bad-tempered contest for the presidency of the European Council by making friends and influencing people.
20 Nov 09 | LONDON: They feared it might take days but in the end it was a snap, unanimous, decision when Europe's 27 leaders dumped charisma for consensus and elected the low-key Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, as the first president of the European Union.
20 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: Palestinian aspirations to establish a capital in East Jerusalem are unwavering, despite this week's announcement by Israel that it is expanding Jewish neighbourhoods in the eastern half of the city.
20 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: The US Government faces compensation claims worth billions of dollars from victims of Hurricane Katrina after a federal judge found that negligence on the part of the army's corps of engineers was directly responsible for some of the most extreme flooding.
20 Nov 09 | GOOGLE'S new operating system, which is designed to bypass computer hard drives and work via the internet, got its first public preview on Thursday.
20 Nov 09 | MORE than a year after an explosion shut it down, the world's biggest and most expensive scientific experiment is set to restart today.
20 Nov 09 | A SECRET attempt to lose weight through liposuction will keep Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar out of the tour to Australia this summer.
20 Nov 09 | Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce on Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.
Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc said on Thursday night that the talk show host will give more details live on the The Oprah Winfrey Show to be broadcast on Friday.
20 Nov 09 | A US Navy serviceman accused of raping a Sydney sex worker says he put her in a "lock down" and told her he was going to finish after she called time on their tryst.
But after she pushed him away he did not force himself on her, only demanded his money back, a Downing Centre District Court jury has been told.
20 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Barack Obama has for the first time flagged the need for an endgame in the strategy for Afghanistan, saying he did not want to leave the next US president with an open-ended commitment to a conflict that has already raged for eight years.
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20 Nov 09 | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given up his bid to secure the job of EU president for Tony Blair but has won support for commissioner Catherine Ashton to become foreign policy supremo.
20 Nov 09 | A rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic, a zoo official says.
Ivan Langr, a spokesman for the Liberec Zoo, says the lions - 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa - managed unexpectedly to enter an open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old Tiger, named Isabella.
20 Nov 09 | A passenger plane has overshot the runway, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a UN-run radio station reports.
The plane had been flying from Kinshasa to Goma, and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds, Radio Okapi said.
19 Nov 09 | THE Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to get off a boat in Merak and will now allow the UN to process them, a decision that may prove decisive in ending a five-week stand-off at the port.
18 Nov 09 | ANKARA: Turkey has ended a Kurdish militant leader's solitary confinement on an island jail in the Marmara Sea, the Justice Minister, Sadullah Ergin said.
18 Nov 09 | MOSCOW: A Russian lawyer jailed after uncovering evidence of police involvement in the theft of $US230 million ($247 million) from the Government has died in prison, officials said, and his partner is accusing the authorities of killing him.