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A family’s shelter in the PhilippinesA family takes shelter at a shed along a road after typhoons submerged their house in Calumpit… 01/10/11 13:14 CET
Sport
Tonga stun France while England reach last eightTonga produced a superb display to stun France 19-14 in one of the biggest upsets in World Cup… 01/10/11 19:06 CET
world news
Portuguese protest deep austerity cutsIn Portugal, thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and Porto on Saturday to denounce… 01/10/11 23:54 CET
Sirte facing tragedy as supplies run outCivilians are fleeing Sirte in ever greater numbers as Libya’s National Transitional Council has… 01/10/11 23:03 CET
Karzai abandons Taliban talksAfghan President Hamid Karzai has said his government will no longer hold peace talks with the… 01/10/11 19:13 CET
Ekin latest Basque group to call time on activitiesA banned Basque separatist organisation, Ekin, has announced it is to disband. The news was… 01/10/11 18:43 CET
French tourist kidnapped in KenyaMore security worries for Kenya with the news that an elderly disabled French woman has been… 01/10/11 17:33 CET
Top Italian executive in public criticism of politiciansAn open letter in every Italian newspaper on Saturday pointed criticism at the ruling political… 01/10/11 17:13 CET
Party signals the start of alcohol ban on Hamburg’s public transportIn Hamburg on the metro around 1,000 revellers turned up to stage what they called, “a good bye… 01/10/11 16:13 CET
Australian fair gets new attractionFour people had the narrowest of escapes when a aircraft crashed into a ferris wheel at the… 01/10/11 14:33 CET
Palestine statehood discussed in Tehran and New YorkIn Tehran the annual international pro-Palestine conference has got underway as the United Nations… 01/10/11 13:37 CET
Paramedic testifies in Jackson caseThe jury in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor has heard from the first paramadic… 01/10/11 12:23 CET
Demonstrators march on New York Police HQIn New York over 1,000 protestors marched to the city’s police headquarters. The demonstration was… 01/10/11 11:03 CET
‘Pay as you go’ electric cars unveiled in ParisA fleet of fully electric cars you can rent by the hour has been unveiled in Paris. The… 01/10/11 09:52 CET
Dior refuses to be drawn on new chief designerFashion house Dior is remaining tight-lipped about the search to replace chief designer John… 01/10/11 09:48 CET
Jackson lawyers gagged after TV revelationsLawyers in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor have been gagged after one of them… 01/10/11 09:24 CET
China sends warning to Europe on debt crisisThe red flag was raised in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square to mark the 62nd anniversary of the founding… 01/10/11 08:33 CET
Libyan peace deal signed over desert townIn Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan… 01/10/11 05:05 CET
Yanukovich faces pressure over trial of ex-PMThe trial of former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been adjourned until October 11th… 01/10/11 03:13 CET
Residents flee fierce fighting in SirteResidents continue to flee Muammar Gaddaffi’s hometown of Sirte as forces from the interim Libyan… 01/10/11 01:33 CET
Sarkozy: a Greek failure would be a European failureEurope has a moral obligation to help Greece. Those were the words from the French President after… 01/10/11 01:04 CET
