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13 Jul 10 | KAMPALA: Ugandans woke this morning to the sobering reality that international terrorism had ripped apart their capital city and any sense of security, with at least 64 World Cup revellers killed and scores more injured.
12 Jul 10 | US President Barack Obama called the deadly explosions that ripped through two restaurants in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday "deplorable and cowardly", a spokesman said.
12 Jul 10 | PARIS: Before becoming a scandal about money, politics, art, history, cafe society and power, l'affaire Bettencourt – now threatening the Sarkozy presidency – was the story of two ferociously ambitious young Hungarian outsiders and their success at storming the citadels of the French establishment.
12 Jul 10 | Iran's judiciary chief has temporarily halted the execution by stoning of a woman accused of adultery, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, quoting a judiciary official.
12 Jul 10 | The suspect in the Grim Sleeper killings was arrested at least 15 times for burglary, assaults and other crimes, but avoided prison even though a probation officer urged that he be given the maximum allowed, court and jail records show.
12 Jul 10 | Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune has praised the Australian government's efforts to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean.
12 Jul 10 | As Raoul Moat lay on the grass, his gun pointed at his neck, witnesses heard him tell police: "I have not got a dad - no one cares about me."
12 Jul 10 | A total solar eclipse has drawn an 11,000-kilometre arc over the Pacific, plunging remote isles into darkness in a heavenly display climaxing on mysterious Easter Island.
12 Jul 10 | The running of the bulls in Pamplona has left a Canadian and three Spaniards injured, one of them the latest of a handful of men to be gored in this year's edition of the famous festival.
12 Jul 10 | Iran's judiciary chief has temporarily halted the execution by stoning of a woman accused of adultery, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, quoting a judiciary official.
12 Jul 10 | UK police are under investigation after one of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended in two officers firing stun guns at fugitive Raoul Moat and the wanted man shooting himself dead.
12 Jul 10 | Bahamas police have captured a teenage US fugitive, bringing to an end the Barefoot Bandit's two-year flight from US justice, a senior police official says.
12 Jul 10 | A gruelling heat wave shut down the air conditioning in three high-tech trains in Germany, leaving dozens of passengers near collapse trapped in temperatures of up to 50C, authorities said Sunday.
12 Jul 10 | Two young sisters have been rescued after clinging to a tree for four days to escape torrential floods which swept away their parents and a brother, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.
12 Jul 10 | The suspect in the Grim Sleeper killings was arrested at least 15 times for burglary, assaults and other crimes, but avoided prison even though a probation officer urged that he be given the maximum allowed, court and jail records show.
12 Jul 10 | LONDON: The Russian secret agent Anna Chapman used an exclusive internet networking club to forge a series of contacts with London financiers and industry leaders as well as models and events promoters.
12 Jul 10 | MOSCOW: The 14 spies swapped by Moscow and Washington are starting new lives in Russia and the West, but mystery shrouds their precise whereabouts after the biggest spy exchange since the Cold War.
12 Jul 10 | THE Chinese Government has accepted a compromise with Google that will allow the search engine to continue pointing users towards unfiltered search results.
12 Jul 10 | CHIPPENHAM, England: After queen and country, nothing was more dear in this region of elegant rural estates than the tally-ho tradition of mounted riders chasing hounds chasing a fox.
12 Jul 10 | BARCELONA: More than a million people have gathered in Barcelona to demand greater regional autonomy for Catalonia and protest against a recent court ruling forbidding the prosperous region from calling itself a nation.
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