| One hurt in Bangkok grenade blast |
| There has been another explosion in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, leaving one person seriously injured. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:46:00 +1000 |
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| Digger wounded in Afghanistan incident |
| An Australian Special Forces soldier was wounded during an operation in Afghanistan on Monday. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:14:00 +1000 |
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| Wyclef Jean steps toward presidential race |
| Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Wyclef Jean takes legal steps toward Haitian presidential race. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:00 +1000 |
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| Nuns in music deal get death threats |
| Benedictine nuns from a secluded convent in southern France have received death threats after winning a deal aimed at creating a chart-topping album, a newspaper reported. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:39:00 +1000 |
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| Doing the subprime but not the time |
| The reputational carnage on Wall Street from the genesis of the US subprime mortgage crisis continues to mount. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:39:00 +1000 |
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| Mexican army kills top drug lord: reports |
| Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a top Mexican drug trafficker, has been killed in clashes with state security forces, local media reported. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:37:00 +1000 |
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| Ellen quits Idol |
| American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres has unexpectedly quit the top-rated television show after just a year in the job, saying it is not the right fit for her. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:29:00 +1000 |
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| Trapped glacier water threatens French valley |
| A pocket of water big enough to fill 20 Olympic pools, trapped inside a glacier on Mont Blanc, could burst at any time and endanger lives in a French Alpine valley, officials said. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:20:00 +1000 |
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| Google cleared over collection of private data |
| Britain's data protection watchdog said Google had probably not captured "significant" private details in the country when its Street View cars grabbed data sent over wireless networks. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:07:00 +1000 |
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| Churchill's dentures snapped up at auction |
| The dentures of Britain's war-time prime minister, Winston Churchill, have gone under the hammer |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +1000 |
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| Cash for clunkers consigned to scrap heap |
| The White House says its cash for clunkers scheme worked well but that it will not be repeating the offer. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:02:00 +1000 |
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| WikiLeaks boss may have 'blood on his hands' |
| America's top military commander says the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks was risking lives by publishing thousands of military files from Afghanistan. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +1000 |
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| Karzai urges action against Pakistan Taliban |
| Afghan president Hamid Karzai has accused the US and its allies of failing to take action against the Taliban beyond its borders. |
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| Updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:03:00 +1000 |
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| Grave errors at Arlington may reach 6,600 |
| As many as 6,600 graves at one of America's most historic military cemeteries may have been mixed up and mislabelled. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +1000 |
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| Mother confesses to eight baby murders |
| A French nurse has admitted suffocating eight of her newborn babies and hiding their bodies at her home. |
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| Updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +1000 |
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| Mercury soars to record high in Russia |
| Temperatures on Thursday (local time) soared to 38.2 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Russian capital, the highest since records began more than 150 years ago, the Moscow Weather Office said. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:03:00 +1000 |
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| Protestors slam Arizona immigration law |
| Protestors and police in riot gear have been locked in a tense standoff in Pheonix, Arizona just hours after a controversial immigration law went into effect. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:00 +1000 |
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| Missing US serviceman found dead |
| The second of two US servicemen who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been found dead. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:26:00 +1000 |
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| Floods wash 3,000 chemical barrels into Chinese river |
| Authorities are scrambling to recover 3,000 barrels full of hazardous chemicals that were washed into a major river in north-eastern China by recent flooding. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:22:00 +1000 |
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| Cameron ends trade trip after sparking terror row |
| British prime minister David Cameron has wrapped up his first trade visit abroad amid criticism of his comments about the "export of terror" from Pakistan. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:20:00 +1000 |
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| Dog-eating alligator wanted dead or alive |
| An urban alligator that has been eating pets and terrorising a neighbourhood in Florida is wanted dead or alive, officials say. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:18:00 +1000 |
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| Kites fill Gaza skies as children reach for record |
| Thousands of kites filled the sky over Gaza on Thursday as children gathered break their own Guinness World Record. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:38:00 +1000 |
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| UK rules out return of Kohinoor diamond |
| The jewel in Britain's actual crown will not be returning to India, Prime Minister David Cameron says, ruling out any repatriation of the famed Kohinoor diamond. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:21:00 +1000 |
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| Obama convenes Afghan war cabinet |
| US president Barack Obama has convened the first meeting of his Afghan war council since the leak of documents containing damaging claims about the conduct of the conflict. |
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| Updated: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:10:00 +1000 |
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