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27 Aug 10 | HAVANA: A program that provided state-subsidised cigarettes to Cuban seniors is headed for the ashtray.
27 Aug 10 | COPIAPO, Chile: Thirty-three trapped miners finally have been told they could be stuck in their collapsed mine for months before being rescued.
27 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: An experimental therapy that targets the protein that feeds certain types of advanced melanomas has successfully shrunk tumours in up to 80 per cent of test patients, a study said.
27 Aug 10 | PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy has sounded the starting gun for one of the most crucial periods of his presidency as he tries to put a scandal-plagued summer behind him and prepare for a politically explosive autumn deemed vital for his re-election.
27 Aug 10 | A US warning that the Pakistani Taliban are planning attacks on foreigners helping with flood relief has not deterred international aid organisations which say they are carrying on with their work despite the security alert.
27 Aug 10 | SCOTT RUSH, the young Australian on death row in a Bali prison for drug smuggling, has pleaded with Indonesian authorities to spare him the horror of execution, telling a panel of judges he frequently thought about meeting his demise in a hail of bullets.
27 Aug 10 | THE Director of Military Prosecutions wants to take the unprecedented step of charging several Defence Force commandos with the deaths of five children during a raid in Afghanistan last year.
27 Aug 10 | Speculation is becoming more feverish over the reason for the gruesome death of Gareth Williams, writes Paola Totaro in London.
| Body in bag in posh London flat ...
| Spy's body found in sports bag ...
27 Aug 10 | An HIV-positive pop star who infected a former sex partner with the virus walked free on Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence.
26 Aug 10 | Death row inmate Scott Rush today made an emotional appeal to a Denpasar court to be spared execution, telling a panel of judges he often thinks how long it would take to die if he went before a firing squad.
26 Aug 10 | Bali Nine drug mule Scott Rush has arrived at the Denpasar District Court for his final appeal against his death sentence.
26 Aug 10 | Detectives searching for a missing British spy say they have launched a murder investigation after a body matching the man's description was discovered stuffed in a sports bag in his apartment near the headquarters of the MI6 spy agency.
26 Aug 10 | A survivor has told police that 72 people found dead at a ranch near the Mexican border with Texas were migrants kidnapped by an armed group, a federal official said on Wednesday.
26 Aug 10 | New Yorkers, including the city's mayor, and several national US organisations, have strongly condemned the attack of a taxi driver believed to have been targeted because he is a Muslim.
26 Aug 10 | Chilean officials have finally told a desperate group of trapped miners that they could be stuck in their collapsed mine for months before being rescued.
26 Aug 10 | Brian Keenan spent four and a half years as a hostage in Beirut - much of the time in pitch darkness. He describes the mental and physical struggle that awaits the 33 Chilean miners as they face their own ordeal
26 Aug 10 | The mayor of New York has made an impassioned defence of plans to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site of the September 11 attacks.
26 Aug 10 | Trapped miners given devastating news: you may be stuck until Christmas.
26 Aug 10 | Apple is planning a September 1 event at which the company is expected to unveil an updated iPod line-up.
26 Aug 10 | A woman caught on camera dumping a cat in a bin says she is "profoundly sorry for a split second of misjudgment".
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