Obama billboard stirs debate
A billboard showing US President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.Floods devastate UK
AP
A police officer has been swept to his death as raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain.
Bushfires roar in New South Wales
Up to 100 fires are burning across New South Wales as a large swathe of the Australian state begins a day of total fire bans.
Drug resistant swine flu spreading
Reuters
British health officials are investigating the likely person-to-person spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the Health Protection Agency has said.
Sleepwalker found not guilty of wife's death
AP
A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found not guilty in her death.
Further charges after shooting at funeral
Police have laid further charges after two people shot into a crowd that had gathered for a funeral in a West Australian town.
Pilot on road to celebrity
He's been called Australia's Captain Sully and a "great chick magnet" who could soon be earning hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of endorsements.
Jailed for student sex
Lightning sparks bushfires as Victoria burns
Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns, one dead
One person was killed when a tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star was not on board, Virginia State Police said.
People killed for fat to make cosmetics
A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics, say police.
Obese man dies after eight months in chair
Probe after Fort Hood deaths
Obama billboard stirs debate
A billboard showing US President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
Transsexual in Italian political scandal murdered
A Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician -- the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome -- was found burnt to death in his home Friday.
Murder suspect who gripped France captured
A French murder suspect who caused a media sensation after escaping from prison in a cardboard box and evading a huge manhunt during weeks on the run, has been recaptured, the interior ministry said Friday.
Rare tiger killed by zoo lions
Belgian to take EU presidency
62 years of marriage
Buckingham Palace says the Queen and her husband Prince Philip are celebrating 62 years of marriage quietly.
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More than 20 killed in separate Afghan blasts
A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan has killed 17 people, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed.
Children's song branded 'racist'
A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
Kiwi hostage heads back to Iraq
Obama vows Afghan exit
Karzai sworn in
Veteran Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as president, pledging to fight graft and take control of his country's security before his five-year term ends, after a fraud-marred election left his image in ruins.
India doubles billionaires
A buoyant stock market and a still-robust economy have nearly doubled the number of billionaires in India, according to the Forbes' Rich List.
China's reaction to Obama visit
State media hailed President Barack Obama's maiden trip to China as a triumph, but ordinary Chinese were largely shielded by their government from his most critical remarks and activists were disappointed by the measured tone of those they did hear.
Army shell kills six civilians
Cloud disappoints Asia stargazers
UN fears N Korea violations
A key United Nations committee is expressing very serious concern at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea.
Plane overshoots runway
A passenger plane has overshot a runway, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people.
Soldiers pulled off diamond fields
Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported.
Stoned to death for adultery
Hungry, hungry hippo
200 million children 'starving'
Twenty years after the UN adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished
Nice Kiwi blokes - shame about the women
'Brainless' stunt by NZ 'idiots' a global sensation
Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns, one dead
Praying for Ben after explosion
Mother of separated twins: 'We don't want them back'
Kiwi Kevin Percy claims Harry Potter castle
Women pay top dollar for evening with bachelor
Nice Kiwi blokes - shame about the women
Rokocoko to play against All Blacks
As Henry shows, footballers can't be trusted
$450,000 march is political manipulation
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