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16 Aug 10 | Cindor Reeves, who turned supergrass on his brother-in-law's trade in blood diamonds, tells Colin Freeman about a violent, sordid world.
16 Aug 10 | ISLAMABAD: The United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon, has arrived in Pakistan to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid for up to 20 million people hit by the country's worst humanitarian disaster.
16 Aug 10 | A HORMONAL treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered to women who may be carrying a foetus with the rare disorder.
16 Aug 10 | BURMA'S army has evaded Australian government sanctions to obtain radio sets from a Perth manufacturer that allow it to scramble its communications, gaining a new advantage against domestic rebels and dissidents and possibly in its suspected covert nuclear weapons program, a British defence journal reports.
15 Aug 10 | A ban on Russian grain exports has come into force, with the government battling to keep down prices of basic foodstuffs amid a record drought.
15 Aug 10 | An iconic Mumbai five-star hotel severely damaged in the 2008 terror attacks has fully reopened, with hundreds of people thronging its newly renovated lobbies and restaurants.
15 Aug 10 | North Korea's propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heels of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube.
15 Aug 10 | LONDON: Princess Anne is turning 60, and the hard-working royal said she has no intention of slowing down.
15 Aug 10 | PAKISTAN'S Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said yesterday 20 million people had been affected by the worst floods in the country's history as the UN confirmed the first cholera case.
15 Aug 10 | MALT whisky found trapped in ice in a hut used by Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic expedition has been recovered and is to be replicated by Scottish distillers.
15 Aug 10 | WITH a manic stare, followed by a blistering cackle, Schapelle Corby greets me. ''Hey, are you from Krypton?''
15 Aug 10 | ONE IN three Australians wants convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby to go free, even though only one in 10 believes she is innocent.
14 Aug 10 | A language dies every 14 days, and half those spoken today are expected to vanish by 2100. The secret language of the Kallawaya, in central South America, is more than 400 years old and spoken by fewer than a hundred people.
14 Aug 10 | WARSAW: A suspected Mossad agent accused of helping to obtain a fake passport used by an Israeli hit squad in the killing of a Hamas leader has been extradited to Germany, Polish police said.
14 Aug 10 | A seed bank near St Petersburg that preserves more than 5000 rare fruits and ornamental plants, including unique varieties of strawberries, plums, pears, apples and currants, has moved one step closer to demolition after losing a court hearing in which rights to the federally owned land were granted to a government housing development agency.
14 Aug 10 | LONDON: A group of Inuits in Greenland who thought they were the only people on the planet until 1818 face the loss of their oral language traditions because of climate change, a British linguist says.
14 Aug 10 | The French President has ordered the expulsion of hundreds of Roma, writes Gregory Viscusi.
14 Aug 10 | Ash Sweeting almost went on the mission in Afghanistan in which 10 medical workers were killed.
14 Aug 10 | RANGOON: Burma will hold its first election in 20 years on November 7, amid widespread fears the vote will be a sham aimed at shoring up the junta's half-century grip on power.
14 Aug 10 | JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has been urged to return the blood diamonds allegedly given to Naomi Campbell to Sierra Leone to help victims of the civil war there.
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