A rugby honeymoon on wheels |
- A rugby honeymoon on wheels
- Optimism in check as US, North Korea set to talk
- Thailand shores up capital as waters creep higher
- Japanese chocolate: rising star in Land of Rising Sun
- Clues to Gaddafi’s death concealed from public view
- Police break up ‘Occupy Sydney’ protest in morning raid
- Tunisian Islamists to do well in first ‘Arab Spring’ vote
- Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya
- Libyan PM says wishes Gaddafi had not been killed
- Libyan interim PM stepping down
- VIDEO: Tensions flare over Kosovo roadblocks
- VIDEO: Sound of Music on stage in Salzburg
- VIDEO: Libyan elections in eight months
- VIDEO: Confusion over Gaddafi's death
- VIDEO: Saudi Crown Prince Sultan dies
- Shark kills American off Australian coast
- Thai PM calls for unity to defend capital from floods
- Muhyiddin begins meeting BN parties on general election
- Not proper for Selangor govt to politicise water issue, Muhyiddin
- Working committee on restorative justice for children to be formed
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:36 AM PDT To maximize sightseeing between Rugby World Cup matches, one French couple has joined the thousands who've taken to roads of New Zealand in campervans. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.
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| Optimism in check as US, North Korea set to talk Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct 23 — Two days of US-North Korea talks opening tomorrow in Geneva are aimed more at managing tensions on the tense Korean peninsula than resuming regional talks on ending the North's nuclear programs. US officials and analysts were keeping expectations low this week, despite a recent slight easing of American ally South Korea's ... 
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| Thailand shores up capital as waters creep higher Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:44 PM PDT BANGKOK, Oct 23 — Thailand's capital was braced for possible flooding today as water levels rose in some of Bangkok's northern suburbs and troops raced to fortify defence walls to protect two key industrial zones. Measures to divert floodwater from the north around the city and into the Gulf of Thailand appeared to be working but the possibility ... 
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| Japanese chocolate: rising star in Land of Rising Sun Posted: 23 Oct 2011 12:17 AM PDT Move over azuki and sweet sticky rice. While Japanese pastry chefs may have started using cocoa a few centuries after the West, this once foreign flavour has captivated Japan's confectionery world.
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| Clues to Gaddafi’s death concealed from public view Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:15 PM PDT MISRATA, Libya, Oct 23 — Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi's body in a cold storage room let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second today, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up. Gaddafi's body lay on a mattress on the floor of the cold room, as it did on Friday when hundreds of members ... 
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| Police break up ‘Occupy Sydney’ protest in morning raid Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:54 PM PDT SYDNEY, Oct 23 — Police broke up a Sydney protest camp inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in an early morning raid today, making dozens of arrests, police and protesters said. The "Occupy Sydney" protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the Martin Place business district had been going on for a week, with a small group ... 
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| Tunisian Islamists to do well in first ‘Arab Spring’ vote Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:33 PM PDT TUNIS, Oct 23 — Islamists are expected to do well in Tunisia's first democratic election today, 10 months after the ouster of autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in a popular uprising that set off protest movements around the Arab world. The Ennahda party will almost certainly win a share of power after the vote, which will set a democratic ... 
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| Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct 23 — President Barack Obama sought today to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a US pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories. In a message Obama is likely to push in his 2012 re-election campaign, he said his leadership had made it possible to turn the page on ... 
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| Libyan PM says wishes Gaddafi had not been killed Posted: 22 Oct 2011 06:24 PM PDT LONDON, Oct 23 — Libya's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in an interview with the BBC yesterday that he wished former dictator Muammar Gaddafi had not been killed and instead had been put on trial for his crimes. Gaddafi's body remained on public display in Libya, bearing wounds assumed to have been inflicted by fighters who hauled him from a ... 
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| Libyan interim PM stepping down Posted: 22 Oct 2011 06:03 PM PDT MISRATA, Libya, Oct 23 — Libya's interim prime minister said he was resigning, and urged new leaders to seize a "very limited opportunity" and resolve rivalries now surfacing after Muammar Gaddafi's death. With regional differences emerging about what to do with Gaddafi's still unburied body, the formal end to the war and the carve-up of power, ... 
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| VIDEO: Tensions flare over Kosovo roadblocks Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:01 PM PDT Hundreds of ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo have prevented Nato peacekeepers from removing barricades which have blocked off the area for the past three months.
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| VIDEO: Sound of Music on stage in Salzburg Posted: 22 Oct 2011 12:48 PM PDT A stage production of The Sound of Music is being performed in the Austrian city of Salzburg for the first time.
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| VIDEO: Libyan elections in eight months Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:39 PM PDT The first elections since Col Gaddafi's downfall are to be held in Libya within eight months according to the country's acting Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril.
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| VIDEO: Confusion over Gaddafi's death Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:33 AM PDT Libya's acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril says everything is being done to establish the circumstances of Colonel Gaddafi's death.
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| VIDEO: Saudi Crown Prince Sultan dies Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:20 AM PDT The heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, has died.
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| Shark kills American off Australian coast Posted: 22 Oct 2011 01:52 AM PDT PERTH, Australia, Oct 22 — A shark killed an American out diving off a popular Australian tourist island today, in the third fatal shark attack off the country's west coast in two months, police said. The man, a US national, was killed while diving alone off Rottnest Island, a popular getaway in the Indian Ocean about 20km west of the Western ... 
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| Thai PM calls for unity to defend capital from floods Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:28 PM PDT BANGKOK, Oct 22 ― Thailand's prime minister called for all agencies to collaborate to protect the capital from a potential deluge of floodwater today as thousands fled high-risk areas or scrambled to protect their homes. Thailand's worst flooding in 50 years has been threatening to hit Bangkok for several days and Yingluck Shinawatra's ... 
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| Muhyiddin begins meeting BN parties on general election Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:53 AM PDT Barisan Nasional (BN) deputy chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today he has begun meeting parties in the coalition regarding their preparation to face the next general election.
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| Not proper for Selangor govt to politicise water issue, Muhyiddin Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:49 AM PDT Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has warned the Selangor government against politicising the water supply issue which will pose a burden to the people in the state and the federal territory by the year 2014.
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| Working committee on restorative justice for children to be formed Posted: 22 Oct 2011 01:37 AM PDT The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry will form a working committee for implementation of the restorative justice system specially for children who are involved in crime.
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