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20 Nov 09 | A US Navy serviceman accused of raping a Sydney sex worker says he put her in a "lock down" and told her he was going to finish after she called time on their tryst.
But after she pushed him away he did not force himself on her, only demanded his money back, a Downing Centre District Court jury has been told.
20 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Barack Obama has for the first time flagged the need for an endgame in the strategy for Afghanistan, saying he did not want to leave the next US president with an open-ended commitment to a conflict that has already raged for eight years.
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20 Nov 09 | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given up his bid to secure the job of EU president for Tony Blair but has won support for commissioner Catherine Ashton to become foreign policy supremo.
20 Nov 09 | A rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic, a zoo official says.
Ivan Langr, a spokesman for the Liberec Zoo, says the lions - 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa - managed unexpectedly to enter an open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old Tiger, named Isabella.
20 Nov 09 | A passenger plane has overshot the runway, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a UN-run radio station reports.
The plane had been flying from Kinshasa to Goma, and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds, Radio Okapi said.
19 Nov 09 | THE Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to get off a boat in Merak and will now allow the UN to process them, a decision that may prove decisive in ending a five-week stand-off at the port.
19 Nov 09 | ANKARA: Turkey has ended a Kurdish militant leader's solitary confinement on an island jail in the Marmara Sea, the Justice Minister, Sadullah Ergin said.
19 Nov 09 | MOSCOW: A Russian lawyer jailed after uncovering evidence of police involvement in the theft of $US230 million ($247 million) from the Government has died in prison, officials said, and his partner is accusing the authorities of killing him.
19 Nov 09 | PARIS: A French woman whose fiance asked her to marry him two days before he was killed in a car crash has been granted a posthumous white wedding in their village.
19 Nov 09 | MADRID: Somali pirates have released 36 crew members and their Spanish fishing vessel even as authorities said pirates had seized a tanker with a crew of 28 North Koreans.
19 Nov 09 | LOS ANGELES: The film star Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor's financial problems.
19 Nov 09 | NAIROBI: Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities.
19 Nov 09 | JOHANNESBURG: Tens of thousands of goldminers in South Africa have contracted lung diseases because employers failed to protect them from harmful dust, it was claimed.
19 Nov 09 | BAGHDAD: Iraq's general election, planned for January, was thrown into doubt yesterday after Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi announced his veto of the election law.
19 Nov 09 | KABUL: The Afghan Minister of Mines accepted a $US30 million ($32 million) bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a US official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
19 Nov 09 | BEIJING: Barack Obama's inaugural tour of China achieved no prize policy results but from Beijing's point of view it was worth ''a thousand pounds of gold''.
19 Nov 09 | Al-WALAJEH, WEST BANK: No one disputes Abdel Fattah Abed Rabbo owns the 50 hectares of land he calls home. He has the Ottoman, Jordanian and Israeli government papers to prove it.
19 Nov 09 | THE Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has brushed aside international anger over the expansion of Jewish neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem by defining the new plans as ''standard procedure''.
19 Nov 09 | THE Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to get off a boat in Merak and will now allow the UN to process them, a decision that may prove decisive in ending a five-week stand-off at the port.
18 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: If you are wondering whether Sarah Palin is planning a run for the White House in 2012, do not look for answers in her book Going Rogue: An American Life, which went on sale in the US yesterday.