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Floods swamp 14,000 Australian homes

Australia's flood crisis shifted to the country's far south on Sunday, with 14,000 homes swamped by a record deluge as the toll mounted in the reeling northeast amid scenes of devastation

Worries of a global food crisis

The issue of rising food prices that helped topple the Tunisian regime is focusing the attention of governments around the world as well as the anger of their citizens

16 NATO tankers set ablaze in Pakistan

Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan set ablaze 16 vehicles carrying fuel supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said

Enquiry into Berlusconi and teenage girl

Judicial enquiry into Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's relationship with a teenage girl is opened Friday

More than 100 dead in Indian pilgrimage stampede

More than 100 Hindu devotees were killed after a road accident triggered a stampede among thousands of pilgrims returning from an Indian religious festival, officials said Saturday

500 dead in Brazil's worst flood disaster

Brazil's mudslides claimed the lives of 500 people

Pakistan separatists blow up gas pipeline

Separatists in Pakistan's Baluchistan province blew up a gas pipeline and a gas well early Friday

Hundreds killed in Brazil floods, mudslides

Hundreds of people have fallen victim to deadly flooding and mudslides in south-east Brazil

Facebook to apply new layout

The experiment stage is over and 500 million people will log into a new design

BlackBerry announces solution to Indian security fears

The Canadian manufacturer of the popular smartphone claims it has found a solution to end a three-year deadlock with India

Suicide bomb kills 18 in NW Pakistan

A suicide bomber kills eighteen people and injures 15 others after striking a police station in north-west Pakistan

Obama heads to Arizona as shot lawmaker fights for life

Obama to lead Americans in national mourning Wednesday after Arizona shooting tragedy provoked a polarising national debate about the violent rhetoric rocking US politics

Merkel voices solidarity with Cyprus

Germany's Merkel in a historical visit to Cyprus

Two civilians killed in Ivory Coast

The two were killed in the streets of the capital, as tensions in Ivory Coast continue

I.Coast's Gbagbo party rejects unity cabinet offer

Alassane Ouattara's offer to form a unity government rejected by the incumbent president

Gates meets Hu as US, China play down rivalry

Gates met with China's president on Tuesday in an attempt to ease military tensions in the Pacific

WikiLeaks urges action on violent US rhetoric

Assange called Tuesday for US politicians and commentators who engage in violent rhetoric to be prosecuted, after the attempted assassination of a congresswoman in Arizona.

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