17 Jul 10 | PARIS: French police must decide this weekend whether to charge or release four people closely involved with the £17 billion ($30 billion) fortune of France's richest woman.
17 Jul 10 | MANILA: Benigno Aquino intends to revive talks with Islamic separatists in the southern Philippines, appointing a law professor known for supporting the land rights of Muslims to serve as chief negotiator.
17 Jul 10 | MADRID: In what may prove to be the biggest transfer story of recent months, negotiations have begun to bring Paul the psychic octopus to Madrid after he correctly predicted Spain's World Cup final victory.
17 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: A series of pressure tests will determine whether experts have finally stopped the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, 86 days and 680 million litres after an explosion and fire aboard a drill rig triggered the US's worst environmental disaster.
17 Jul 10 | Catholics around the world were shocked after the Vatican listed both the ordination of women and paedophile abuse by priests as "grave crimes".
17 Jul 10 | Organ transplant patients attending the World Transplant Games in South Africa have been warned to take special precautions after a NSW man, given two kidneys in the past 15 years, died last week from an infection picked up in a hospital there.
17 Jul 10 | In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, more than 2000 kilometres from any land, David de Rothschild went for a swim.
17 Jul 10 | NEW DELHI: The Indian rupee will join the dollar, yen, euro and pound with its own symbol.
17 Jul 10 | Unable to sleep in Kerobokan prison's death tower and aware his final legal appeal to overturn his appointment with an Indonesian firing squad was about to be lodged, Scott Rush composed a letter yesterday.
17 Jul 10 | An accused people smuggler talks to Matt Wade in a rare interview in Pakistan's notorious Adiala prison.
16 Jul 10 | The creator of a Facebook tribute to a British killer who shot himself dead after a standoff with police removed the page Thursday after it sparked condemnation, including from the prime minister.
16 Jul 10 | A girl who was snatched as a baby seven years ago from a Los Angeles restaurant has been found in Arizona, where police say a woman tried to hide her under a pile of clothes when officers searched the house.
16 Jul 10 | The Mel Gibson tape saga has taken a new twist with claims the recordings were fabricated emerging as the actor's soon-to-be ex-wife of 28 years comes out in support for him.
16 Jul 10 | A woman in the US has told police she was carjacked to cover up the fact that her car crashed because she was having sex.
16 Jul 10 | A couple has been convicted of trying to extort money from actor John Stamos by threatening to sell old photos of him with strippers and cocaine.
16 Jul 10 | BP engineers on Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as they shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said.
16 Jul 10 | A US woman has been charged with sexually assaulting two boys, aged 14 and 15, after her daughter walked in on her having sex with one.
16 Jul 10 | PARIS: The L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt has denounced her daughter on television amid a legal battle that has set off a financial inquiry drawing in the highest levels of French government.
16 Jul 10 | LONDON: Europe's love affair with Barack Obama appears to have cooled dramatically, with the European Union's most powerful figure making an unprecedented call for refreshed trans-Atlantic relations.
16 Jul 10 | LONDON: Britain's overseas intelligence service, MI6, faces questions about security failures that allowed a graduate recruit to smuggle top secret files out of its headquarters and try to sell them to another country.
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