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Don’t scare away the donorsA worshipper playing a clown collects money in a pot during the Osun Osogbo festival in Osogbo… 25/08/12 12:46 CET
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First funerals held for striking South African minersThe first funerals were held on Saturday for the striking miners shot dead by police in South… 25/08/12 23:53 CET
First man on the moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died at the age of 82 on Saturday… 25/08/12 22:43 CET
Botched fresco draws crowds to Spanish townWhile Paris draws crowds with the Mona Lisa, a Spanish town is pulling in visitors with a… 25/08/12 19:13 CET
Egypt seals off 120 smuggling tunnelsEgyptian security officials say they have now sealed off 120 tunnels in the Sinai peninsula, which… 25/08/12 17:33 CET
Tensions high after sectarian fighting in TripoliThree people including a Sunni Islamist commander have been killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli… 25/08/12 16:32 CET
Egypt: Mursi opponents continue protestA protest against Eygptian President Mohamed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood party continued in… 25/08/12 15:53 CET
Russia launches flying school for birdsRussian scientists have launched a flying school for birds that are nervous of making a 5,000… 25/08/12 15:40 CET
US air guitarist crowned world championAmerican Justin Howard, known as ‘Nordic Thunder’ has won the 17th Air Guitar World Championships… 25/08/12 15:40 CET
Mexico holds a mass wedding for prisonersThe “I do’s” went on for a little longer than usual, when more than 100 inmates at a Mexican jail… 25/08/12 15:40 CET
Hollande: Greece must be tackled quickly after Troika reportEurope must take a decision quickly on the future of Greece following a progress report by… 25/08/12 14:34 CET
Venezuela oil refinery blast: 19 deadAn explosion has rocked Venezuela’s largest oil refinery, killing at least 19 people including a… 25/08/12 13:04 CET
New UN envoy for Syria has ‘full support’, says BanThe new international envoy for Syria has met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in… 25/08/12 12:27 CET
Haiti struggles to protect residents from Tropical Storm IsaacTropical Storm Isaac continues its sweep across the Caribbean. Heavy rains and 110 kilometre an… 25/08/12 10:54 CET
Controversial memoir of the killing of Bin LadenAs Barack Obama gets ready for the Democratic National Convention in early September, one of his… 25/08/12 10:45 CET
Vandals deface Yeltsin monumentVandals defaced a monument of Russia’s first post- Soviet president Boris Yeltsin on Friday. They… 25/08/12 09:40 CET
US embassy staff shot at by Mexican policeMexican police have shot and wounded two US Embassy staff in what officials are describing as a… 25/08/12 09:40 CET
Empire State Building gunman didn’t fire at policeInvestigators probing a fatal shooting outside New York’s Empire State Building say they’ve no… 25/08/12 08:53 CET
Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn for copying its productsA US jury on Friday ruled that some of Samsung’s flagship mobile devices copied designs and… 25/08/12 05:53 CET
Breivik begins 21 year jail term for Oslo murdersNorwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik has begun his 21 year jail term for the murder of 77 people… 25/08/12 05:04 CET
Spanish jobless protest against benefits reformProtesters in Madrid rallied against a government move on Friday that will make it harder for the… 25/08/12 01:33 CET
Talks fail between IAEA and IranThe latest talks between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran in Vienna have ended in… 25/08/12 01:03 CET
Mursi’s opponents demonstrate in CairoOpponents of Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi have demonstrated in central Cairo against the… 25/08/12 00:04 CET
