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Muted reaction greets new EU President
Limp waves of polite puzzlement circled the globe yesterday as leaders
adjusted to the news that the much ballyhooed EU President would be a
mild-mannered, competent manager rather than a charismatic new "face"
for Europe.
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Pope and Archbishop to meet amid fears over Anglican converts
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Pope Benedict XVI will today greet Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of
Canterbury and leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, for the first
time since the Vatican announced the creation of a canonical structure to
receive groups of Anglican converts en masse.
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Blair 'happy not to have won Europe job'
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Tony Blair will not seek another big international job after being rejected
for the new post of "President of Europe", his allies said
yesterday.
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Egypt pulls ambassador in fall-out from World Cup clash
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Never mind the "hand of Henry" – the "foot of Yahia"
has caused an even greater World Cup fallout in north Africa as rioting
erupted in the early hours of yesterday morning in Cairo.
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Belgian PM chosen to be first full-time EU president
Friday, 20 November 2009
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 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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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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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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