EU lawmakers cancel Iran visit in row

A VISIT to Iran by five Euro MPs has been called off after Tehran refused to let them meet with a jailed activist lawyer and a filmmaker, just a day after the two were awarded a prestigious European human rights prize. "The five MEPs were about...

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Russian opposition leaders detained

RUSSIAN opposition leaders have been detained while protesting what they say is the torture of a fellow activist. Investigators earlier this week said that Leonid Razvozzhayev had turned himself in and confessed to plotting riots. But days later...

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Iraq Eid attacks kill 16

ATTACKS mostly targeting Shi'ite Muslims during the Eid al-Adha holiday, including bombings of a marketplace and a minibus carrying pilgrims, killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday. The shootings and explosions, which also left more than...

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Rebels raid poultry farm

COMMUNIST guerrilla rebels raided a poultry farm in the southern Philippines and torched two buildings after the owner ignored their extortion demands, the military said on Saturday. Thousands of chickens were killed after rebels from the New...

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Police fire rubber bullets at miners

SOUTH African police have fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas to disperse striking miners trying to prevent a rally by the country's main labour grouping. Bullet casings littered the ground and a helicopter circled above, with police...

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Vatican cannot revoke Savile's honour

THE Vatican says it cannot rescind the papal knighthood awarded to television star Jimmy Savile, who emerged as an alleged child sex predator after his death. The Catholic Church of England said it has contacted the Holy See to ask it to posthumously...

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Supermarket roof collapse in kills one

AT least one person was killed and nearly a dozen were missing after a supermarket roof collapsed in southern Argentina, authorities said. The accident struck shortly before closing Thursday when an adjacent building under construction collapsed,...

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Syrian army 'responding to ceasefire violations'

THE Syrian army said it was responding to attacks by armed rebels that were in violation of a temporary ceasefire agreed for a four-day Muslim holiday. "Armed terrorist groups attacked military positions, thereby clearly violating the halt to military...

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US stocks flat in opening trade

US stocks have opened flat under the shadow of earnings disappointments from tech giants Apple and Amazon but shored up by a slightly better-than-expected estimate of GDP growth in the third quarter. Apple lost 0.4 per cent after reporting a...

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Package shuts Canada's US embassy

A SUSPICIOUS package was found at the Canadian embassy in Washington Friday and the building was evacuated, police and local media reported. City police said in a Twitter message that a section of Pennsylvania Avenue, a busy downtown Washington...

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Dozens of dead in Damascus blast: NGO

DOZENS of people were killed or wounded in a car bomb attack in southern Damascus on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The explosion of a booby-trapped car outside the Omar bin Khattab mosque in the area known as Shorta...

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Citigroup is fined $2m over Facebook IPO

THE top securities regulator in Massachusetts has fined Citigroup $US2 million ($1.9 million) for failing to supervise analysts who improperly disclosed confidential information about Facebook's initial public offering. US Secretary of State...

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One dead in attack on doctor's home

CONGOLESE officials confirm that gunmen killed one person in an attack on the home of a Congolese doctor who has helped thousands of women recover from violent rapes. South Kivu Province Governor Marcellin Cishambo told The Associated Press...

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Gillard undermined Rudd: McKew

JULIA Gillard was a disloyal deputy involved in the conspiracy to take down Kevin Rudd as prime minister, says former Labor MP Maxine McKew. In her new book, Ms McKew says Ms Gillard directly undermined Mr Rudd in the days before she ousted...

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Forty whales die in mass stranding

ABOUT 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India's remote North Andaman island in the Bay of Bengal, wildlife officials said. "The short-finned pilot whales were found by fishermen who alerted us and investigations show it...

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US stocks rise on upbeat data, P&G results

US stocks have scored solid opening gains as weekly unemployment claims and durable goods orders came in better than expected and Procter & Gamble earnings beat forecasts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 62.62 points, or 0.48 per...

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300 potential Jimmy Savile victims: police

BRITISH police say officers have identified 300 potential victims of the late Jimmy Savile, the disgraced BBC entertainer now believed to be a predatory pedophile. Commander Peter Spindler said on Thursday officers had identified 300 potential...

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Dutch woman arrested with 2000 joints

DUTCH police say they have arrested a woman in the port city of Rotterdam with 2200 cannabis joints and 12 kilograms of soft drugs. A statement said police went to the address on Thursday looking for another man and noticed a strong smell of...

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Judge OKs release of Romney testimony

A MASSACHUSETTS judge will allow the release of testimony by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the decades-old divorce of Staples founder Tom Stemberg. Lawyers for The Boston Globe argued that the public has a right to know what's in...

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Denmark demands EU budget rebate

DANISH Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has warned she will veto the EU's 2014-2020 budget proposal if Denmark does not receive a one billion kroner ($A169 million) rebate. "Our key message to the other countries and what we are fighting...

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Virgin space project keeps being delayed

BRITISH billionaire Richard Branson says his space tourism project keeps being pushed back and isn't sure of an exact date for the first launch. He says it will be at least another 12 or 18 months before the Virgin Galactic venture can offer...

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Sudan accuses Israel of bombing

SUDAN has accused Israel of carrying out air strikes against a military factory that killed two people in south Khartoum overnight, and threatened to retaliate. "We think Israel did the bombing," Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman...

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Google sets out to map Grand Canyon

GOOGLE and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a push cart and to British Columbia's snow-covered slopes by snowmobile. The search giant now has brought...

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Gunman opens fire in megachurch

POLICE say one person was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire inside the chapel of a Georgia megachurch just south of Atlanta. Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester says the suspect got away in a vehicle, and was still at large around...

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Facebook, Boeing fuel US stock rebound

OPTIMISTIC forecasts by Boeing and Facebook have pushed US stocks higher in opening trade, reversing course after a slew of earnings disappointments sent markets sharply lower on Tuesday. Facebook shares rocketed 23 per cent after the company...

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Qld police commissioner bows out

QUEENSLAND'S police commissioner may have never risen to the top if it weren't for the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s. Bob Atkinson had a pivotal role implementing the inquiry's recommendations in the north coast policing region to help...

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Auschwitz prisoner and photographer dies

THE images are haunting: naked and emaciated children at Auschwitz standing shoulder-to-shoulder, adult prisoners in striped garb posing for police-style mug shots. One of several photographers to capture such images, Wilhelm Brasse, has died...

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Butler's 'accomplice' faces Vatileaks trial

A VATICAN computer technician will go on trial on November 5 on charges of helping the Pope's former butler steal secret papers, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi says. Claudio Sciarpelletti's trial follows the conviction of ex-butler Paolo...

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US stocks plunge 1% on poor earnings

US stocks have opened more than one per cent lower after blue chips Dupont, United Technologies and 3M turned in disappointing quarterly earnings and cut their forecasts. Five minutes into trade the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 166.39...

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Missing girl's body found in recycling bin

THE uncle of a missing New Jersey girl is confirming that the 12-year-old's body was found in a home's recycling container. Paul Spadafora thanked the community for helping to search for Autumn Pasquale. Officials say the body was found in...

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Police admit botched gunman investigation

FRENCH police have unveiled a damning report that shows up several loopholes in the investigation of al-Qaida inspired gunman Mohamed Merah before his shooting spree in Toulouse. The 17-page report by the police disciplinary unit IGPN said "several...

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NY court says lap dance isn't art

A SHARPLY divided court in New York says lap dances don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, and so shouldn't get a tax break. The state's top court split 4 to 3. Dissenting justices conclude there's...

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Something fishy about naval robots

AN EEL undulating through coastal waters, powered by batteries and checking for mines. A jellyfish is actually a surveillance robot, powered by the atoms around it. Fins pick up intelligence while propelling a robot bluegill sunfish. The US Office...

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Friend your boss at your peril

THOUSANDS of young Aussies might have to update their Facebook status from 'hired' to 'fired' sooner than they'd like. Almost one-third of workers aged between 18 and 25 are friends with their boss on social media, a new survey has found. But...

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Emergency planning 'lacks funds'

AUSTRALIA needs to boost its "shamefully inadequate" emergency services funding and set up a national body to oversee disaster management, former federal emergency services minister Robert McClelland says. Mr McClelland says more attention should...

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More young people drowning

A SIGNIFICANT rise in the number of young people drowning in Australia has led to a call for compulsory swimming lessons at primary schools. The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) says 371 people aged between 15 and 24 drowned between 2002 and...

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Instant phone translation begins in Japan

JAPAN'S biggest mobile operator says it will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the phone in several different languages. The application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice and text readouts of conversations...

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Oldest Auschwitz survivor dies at 108

THE oldest known survivor of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Antoni Dobrowolski, has died at the age of 108, one of the site's official historians has announced. Adam Cyra, who works at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum,...

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US stocks slip on Caterpillar outlook

US stocks have opened mostly lower as investors braced for a week of earnings reports, with Caterpillar's lowered outlook hurting sentiment. Five minutes into trade on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 12.86 points, or 0.10 per...

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Pregnant women going further to give birth

OVERWORKED maternity hospitals in Melbourne are being forced to turn down bookings from pregnant women, forcing them to hospitals further away or into expensive private care. Fairfax says staff at the recently expanded Werribee Mercy Hospital...

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Budget 12/13 surplus not necessity: Access

THE federal government's promise to bring the budget back to surplus is based more on politics than economic necessity, a leading independent forecaster says. As Labor prepares to release its mid-year budget review on Monday morning, Deloitte...

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Growth could slow in 2014 with price falls

AUSTRALIA'S growth could slow in 2014 and deliver headaches for business as commodity price falls put a brake on mining construction projects. Big mining projects that were approved a few years ago will drive output gains in the next two years,...

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UK 'black box' trading crackdown due

A CRACKDOWN on so-called "black box" trading will be proposed by the British government to prevent extreme swings in the share prices of companies, it has been reported. Business Secretary Vince Cable is expected to call for better management...

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Pope names first Native American saint

POPE Benedict XVI has named seven new saints, including the first Native American, praising their "heroic courage" as the Catholic Church seeks to counter a rising tide of secularism in the West. Kateri Tekakwitha, known as "Lily of the Mohawks",...

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Protesters try to storm Lebanese govt HQ

LEBANESE soldiers have fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a police cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The enraged crowd came from the funeral of a top Lebanese intelligence...

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13 dead in Damascus police station bomb

A CAR bomb has exploded outside a police station in a Christian quarter of Damascus, killing 13 people, the official SANA news agency says, with a similar attack striking Syria's second city of Aleppo. "An explosive device planted under a car...

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Clean-up begins as Lourdes flooding eases

A MASSIVE clean-up is under way in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes, famed for its Catholic sanctuaries, after flash floods forced the evacuation of some 450 pilgrims and closed the main shrine. The waters from days of non-stop rain in the...

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