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15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: An Iroquois nations team en route to tour England were stranded in New York last night because of a visa row between the United States and Britain.
15 Jul 10 | SHANGHAI: China is looking at closing its network of labour camps, allowing an unprecedented public debate over the controversial program.
15 Jul 10 | FOR the first time in 26 years, doctors are pushing to change the way Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed.
15 Jul 10 | He was found by the bins of a fast-food outlet in Georgia with no clothes, no memories, nothing. Six years on, he is no closer to answering the question that haunts him: who am I? Neil Forsyth reports.
15 Jul 10 | BAGHDAD: The US has handed over 55 former members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, including the long-time international face of the regime, Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Justice Minister, Busho Ibrahim, said.
15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: Michelle Obama has given a keynote speech for a civil rights organisation which has accused the American Tea Party movement of racism.
15 Jul 10 | SPECIAL FORCES have begun a manhunt for an Afghan soldier who killed three British colleagues inside a patrol base in Helmand province.
15 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: The Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was on his way home from Washington yesterday, saying he would reveal full details of his ''abduction'' by US spies on arrival.
15 Jul 10 | PARIS: The lower house of the French parliament has approved a ban on wearing veils that cover the face in public and the Senate is expected to pass the bill into law in September.
14 Jul 10 | Chocolate labrador Max took matters into his own paws when he was trapped in a hot car, says US vet.
14 Jul 10 | Israeli warships "surround" a Libyan aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, says the executive director of the Kadhafi Foundation, which chartered the vessel.
14 Jul 10 | ROME: Italian police made more than 300 arrests, seized arms and confiscated tens of millions of euros of assets in their largest operation for 15 years against the country's most powerful Mafia.
14 Jul 10 | KAMPALA: Police have arrested people suspected of being involved in two bomb blasts that killed at least 74 people in the Ugandan capital on Sunday.
14 Jul 10 | Africa's extensive network of national parks is failing to stem the decline of large mammals, says a study that highlights the continent's biodiversity loss.
14 Jul 10 | NEW ORLEANS: The fate of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well, and of deep-water oil drilling in general, remains unresolved, despite the success of BP engineers in installing a massive new sealing cap that may allow them to shut the well permanently.
14 Jul 10 | LOS ANGELES: In the end, the move by Swiss authorities to free Roman Polanski did not come down to whether he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. Nor did it hinge on his three decades as an international fugitive.
14 Jul 10 | MEXICO CITY: What he said mattered so much less than the fact he said it, or said anything at all.
14 Jul 10 | BEIJING: The Chinese Communist Party has detailed its ambitious but secretive strategy for transforming the internet into a force for keeping it in power and projecting ''soft power'' abroad.
14 Jul 10 | NEW YORK: This could give a whole new meaning to the phrase power dressing.
14 Jul 10 | LONDON: The Church of England's ruling body has said female bishops should be allowed, paving the way for their ordination despite objections from traditionalists.
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