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06 Apr 09 | Under the cover of darkness and warfare, five US soldiers broke into an Iraqi home to rape a young girl, murder her family and set the house on fire to cover their crime.
The alleged ringleader a...
06 Apr 09 | An American UN worker abducted more than two months ago in Pakistan has turned up unharmed, lying by a road with hands and feet bound and pleading, ''Help me, help me,'' the man who found him says.
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06 Apr 09 | US police are seeking to uncover why a jobless immigrant snapped, going on a murderous rampage in the centre where he learned English, mowing down 13 people before killing himself.
The bespectacle...
06 Apr 09 | A gunman ''lying in wait'' wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield...
06 Apr 09 | Children who live in homes with vinyl flooring have double the chance of being autistic, research has discovered.
The finding which amazed even the scientists conducting the study provides one of...
05 Apr 09 | FOUR Thai soldiers were killed and 10 were captured during clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers along a disputed border, a Cambodian spokesman said.
05 Apr 09 | ICE could disappear from the Arctic summer within 30 years because of global warming, a US study has found.
05 Apr 09 | GOOGLE may be mapping the streets of the Western world but the good folk of Broughton, in Buckinghamshire, England, don't want a bar of it.
05 Apr 09 | THE newly appointed boss of the struggling phone maker Motorola has been revealed as the US's highest-paid corporate leader, with a pay package of $US104 million ($147 million), as political heat rises over executive pay at the height of an economic downturn.
05 Apr 09 | THE head of Britain's armed forces has accused NATO allies of "failing to resource" the military mission in Afghanistan, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed to send as many as 1000 more troops to the country.
05 Apr 09 | UNEMPLOYMENT in the United States jumped to its highest level in nearly 26 years , as employers shed another 663,000 jobs.
05 Apr 09 | A LONE killer armed with two handguns and a hunting knife massacred 13 people at a citizenship centre in New York State before shooting himself.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | GORDON BROWN hailed the emergence of a new world order and Kevin Rudd declared cowboy capitalism dead following yesterday's historic agreement to hasten the end of the global recession and implement new rules and regulations to prevent it happening again.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | THE United States apologised in 1993 for the "illegal overthrow" of Hawaii's native monarch a century earlier, but that congressional expression of regret did not give native Hawaiians a legal claim to state lands, the Supreme Court has ruled.
04 Apr 09 | AS HE faced his post-G20 news conference in London, Barack Obama was confronted with the extraordinary dilemma he faces as leader of the most powerful country and as President of the United States.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has warned North Korea not to proceed with its missile launch and described the move as provocative, illegal and a setback for further regional dialogue.
04 Apr 09 | BOLLYWOOD film producers are going on indefinite strike this weekend, refusing to release new films after failing to resolve differences with multiplex owners over their share of box office takings. Both sides refuse to budge.