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29 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama declared that the war in Iraq was ending and pledged to help veterans cope with their return to civilian life, as he prepared to mark the transition of the American mission from combat to training.
29 Aug 10 | Paris Hilton has been arrested on a cocaine charge in Las Vegas.
29 Aug 10 | COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan maid recovering from surgery to remove 19 nails from her body told doctors her Saudi employer had heated the nails before hammering them into her body.
29 Aug 10 | LONDON: The family of the British spy murdered in London have attacked ''completely false'' smears about his private life.
29 Aug 10 | THATTA, Pakistan: Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have fled raging floods after the Indus River smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.
28 Aug 10 | COPIAPO, Chile:As the rescue operation for 33 miners trapped deep underground begins, the Chilean government has said five are suffering from depression and will be treated remotely by a psychiatrist.
28 Aug 10 | TANAUAN, the Philippines: Scores of friends and family turned out yesterday to bury the ex-policeman who hijacked a bus in Manila, leading to a crisis in which eight Hong Kong tourists died.
28 Aug 10 | BANGKOK: Authorities at Bangkok Airport found a sedated tiger cub alongside a stuffed toy tiger in the suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran.
28 Aug 10 | JOHANNESBURG: A pastor has courted controversy by preaching a sermon titled ''Jesus was HIV-positive'' in an attempt to break what he regards as a conspiracy of silence by South African churches.
28 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
28 Aug 10 | The double whammy of Ramadan and August - almost an entire nation fasting in the biting, 50-degree heat of high summer - might be expected to stupefy this entire nation. But on the US east coast the President had no such excuse. Barack Obama staged a less theatrical version of his predecessor's ''Mission Accomplished'' claim about the war before retreating to Martha's Vineyard for a family holiday.
28 Aug 10 | JOHANNESBURG: The South African President, Jacob Zuma, faced one of his biggest tests as tens of thousands of striking workers took to the streets this week and relations with his trade union backers neared breaking point.
28 Aug 10 | The German Democratic Republic muzzled its people by using vague socialist guidelines to break up families, writes Marten Rolff.
28 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: A rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, led by a conservative TV host and attended by the Republican politician Sarah Palin, looms as a barometer of so-called Tea Party activism in America.
28 Aug 10 | Life is slowly returning after Hurricane Katrina, writes Philip Sherwell in New Orleans.
28 Aug 10 | John Garnaut in Xuanhua meets the truckies who are going nowhere.
28 Aug 10 | FAMILIES of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground are to sue the site's owner for negligence after alleging that it ignored warnings about safety concerns and had been fined for breaching regulations.
28 Aug 10 | COPIAPO, Chile: They say they are organised, making plans and praying. The first substantial video footage of 33 trapped Chilean miners shows them in good spirits and describing life in their rescue shelter.
28 Aug 10 | MUMBAI: India's push to end a 30-year ban on the purchase of nuclear equipment from abroad may founder on laws passed by its own parliament.
28 Aug 10 | THATTA: The United Nations says up to a million people have fled their homes in southern Pakistan since midweek as floodwaters breach flood-protection defences.
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