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Belgian Prime Minsiter Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commissioner for trade Catherine Ashton

Belgian PM chosen to be first full-time EU president

Belgian premier Herman van Rompuy has been chosen to become the European Union's first full-time president, diplomats said last night.
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Football-sized chunk of ice smashes into roof

Friday, 20 November 2009

A football-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a house after apparently falling from a plane passing overhead.
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US customs seize 316,000 bongs shipped from China

Friday, 20 November 2009

US customs officials found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbour.
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Jury backs police over clown's arrest

Friday, 20 November 2009

A US federal jury ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious item that turned out to be a balloon inflation device inside a coffee shop.
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Iran may face fresh nuclear sanctions

Friday, 20 November 2009

US President Barack Obama said the United States has begun talking with allies about fresh punishment against Iran for defying efforts to halt its nuclear weapons pursuits.
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Separated twins both doing well

Friday, 20 November 2009

A Bangladeshi toddler separated from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally after being woken yesterday from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.
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John Kerry’s daughter faces drink drive charge

Friday, 20 November 2009

The daughter of former US Presidential hopeful John Kerry was arrested in Hollywood yesterday accused of drink driving.
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Oprah Winfrey: still the most popular African American woman in America

Oprah Winfrey Show to end in 2011

Friday, 20 November 2009

The Oprah Winfrey Show will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said.
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Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai pledges to stamp out corruption

Friday, 20 November 2009

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai yesterday promised to root out his government's endemic corruption in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his first term.
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Judge rules Hurricane Katrina devastation caused by US Army negligence

Friday, 20 November 2009

The US government could be facing a bill running to hundreds of billions of dollars after a federal judge ruled that failures by the US Army Corps of Engineers were responsible for the worst flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.
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Iraq Vice-President, Tareq al-Hashemi

Veto on law could hold up Iraq poll

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Iraq's vice president vetoed part of a key law yesterday that could delay national elections due in January.
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Murdered: British student Meredith Kercher

I tried to save Meredith Kercher, killer tells appeal court

Thursday, 19 November 2009

The man convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy yesterday claimed he heard her arguing with housemate and suspect Amanda Knox minutes before her death.

Spirit of the past inspires Congo campaign

Thursday, 19 November 2009

One hundred years ago today, a crowd gathered at the Royal Albert Hall in London to be told of atrocities in the Congo. Luminaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer, and the Archbishop of Canterbury were joined in their public outrage by scores of peers and MPs.
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Rural prison could house Guantanamo Bay inmates

Thursday, 19 November 2009

The US government may buy a nearly-empty prison in rural Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with other inmates.
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Epileptic driver caged in US for killing couple

Thursday, 19 November 2009

An epileptic who mowed down a British couple with his dustbin lorry was jailed for at least 20 years yesterday.
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French woman marries dead fiance

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

The bride wore white but she was a widow before she left the town hall.
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Mexico Indian remains rescued from New York museum for burial

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians have buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.
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Tajikistan bans light bulbs

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Energy-starved Tajikistan has banned the production of incandescent light bulbs in the country's latest effort to conserve power.
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Serbian president faces fine for stadium champagne

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Serbia's president Boris Tadic faces a fine for allegedly drinking champagne at a stadium with his sports minister and the head of the football federation.
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Britons fined for pigeon tossing

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Two British men have been fined by a court in Poland for pigeon tossing.
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Donald Trump settles casino case

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Donald Trump ended his war with bondholders of the casino company that bears his name, settling for 10% of Trump Entertainment Resorts once it emerges from bankruptcy.
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