|  Peru's shaman make predictions for 2011   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:53 PM PST Peruvian faith healers gathered for their annual ritual aimed at assisting deserving world leaders and predicting fortunes for 2011.   
 
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  |  Flooded Australian towns evacuated   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:53 PM PST Towns across Queensland may be underwater for more than a week, in some of worst flooding the state has seen.   
 
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  |  Bolivians protest against fuel price increase   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST Hundreds of Bolivians protested against the government's decision to cut subsidies for fuel and diesel   
 
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  |  Peru's shaman make predictions for 2011   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:53 PM PST Peruvian faith healers gathered for their annual ritual aimed at assisting deserving world leaders and predicting fortunes for 2011.   
 
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  |  How to play real-life Quidditch   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST Quidditch, the game popularised in the Harry Potter books, is now being played by students in colleges around the world.   
 
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  |  LG pledges action against patent suit by Sony      (AFP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:31 PM PST  AFP - LG Electronics said Thursday it would "actively respond" to a lawsuit filed by Japan's Sony that seeks to block mobile phone shipments to the United States by the South Korean firm.
  
 
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  |  Facebook chorus prompts Qantas to scrap instruments ban      (AFP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:25 PM PST  AFP - Australian musicians Thursday said they had scored a victory against Qantas after a Facebook campaign helped persuade the airline to scrap a ban on carrying instruments as cabin luggage.
  
 
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  |  Research In Motion Denies PlayBook Has Battery Issues   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:35 PM PST In a statement late Wednesday, Research In Motion (RIMM) attempted to tamp down concerns that the co   
 
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  |  Smith tight-lipped over Sreesanth incident      (AFP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:34 PM PST  AFP - South Africa captain Graeme Smith was tight-lipped on Wednesday about his confrontation with Indian bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth during the second Test at Kingsmead.
  
 
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  |  India's new rich prove reluctant philanthropists      (AFP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:06 PM PST  AFP - A huge charity gift by a high-tech tycoon has shone a harsh light on the philanthropic track record of India's established and emerging billionaires.
  
 
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  |  China shuts over 60,000 porn websites this year      (Reuters)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:18 PM PST Reuters - China shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said on Thursday, vowing no let-up in its campaign against material deemed obscene.   
 
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  |  The Missing Link In China's Auto Development?   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:29 PM PST Chinese consumers are being provided with a new product intended to wean them away from foreign cars   
 
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  |  Violent deaths in Iraq reach lowest level since war began, group reports   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:58 PM PST | 
  |  Haiti Frees Aid Worker Accused of Kidnapping   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:49 PM PST An American aid worker was released from Haiti's notoriously overcrowded National Penitentiary after authorities apparently cleared him of allegations that he kidnapped an infant from a hospital where he worked as a volunteer.   
 
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  |  Fire damages centuries old abbey   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:34 PM PST A Belgian abbey that has survived seven centuries is badly damaged by fire.   
 
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  |  China political satire scores big at box office      (AFP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:24 PM PST  AFP - A new film from one of the bad boys of Chinese cinema, Jiang Wen -- a scathing satire on power, greed and corruption -- has critics cheering and movie-goers queuing up to make it a box office hit.
  
 
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  |  Family of WWI veteran looks forward to 110th birthday   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:57 PM PST The family of Frank Buckles, the nation's lone living veteran of World War I, hopes he makes it to his 110th birthday about a month from now, despite troubling signs he is on the decline.    
 
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  |  Haiti frees US aid worker accused of kidnapping      (AP)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:52 PM PST  AP - An American aid worker was released Wednesday from Haiti's notoriously overcrowded National Penitentiary after authorities apparently cleared him of allegations that he kidnapped an infant from a hospital where he worked as a volunteer.
  
 
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  |  RIM offers data tapping at India office: report      (Reuters)   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:12 PM PST Reuters - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has offered to install a network data analysis system at its premises in India that would help tap data, the Economic Times reported on Thursday, citing an internal note from India's interior ministry.   
 
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  |  Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel   Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:12 PM PST Israel is at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies, Israeli politicians and even Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemy, clamoring for a piece of the action.   
 
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