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3:00 AM AEST | TEHRAN: Iran says it will free Sarah Shourd, an American jailed for more than 13 months, as an act of clemency to mark the end of Ramadan.
3:00 AM AEST | IT WAS early afternoon on Thursday - the last day of the holy month of Ramadan when observant Muslims fast during daylight hours - and time for a shave.
3:00 AM AEST | CHARSADDA, Pakistan: In a normal year Pakistanis would have been scurrying home last night for a weekend of gluttony-tinged indulgence marking Eid al-Fitr, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and Islam's near equivalent of Christmas. But this is no normal year.
3:00 AM AEST | An Indian author has blamed Winston Churchill for allowing more than a million people to die of starvation during World War II.
3:00 AM AEST | The Obama administration can restart funding for embryonic stem cell research while it appeals against a decision banning government support for any activity using cells taken from human embryos, an appeals court has ruled.
3:00 AM AEST | One of the last unspoilt quarters of ''old'' Beijing, which had been earmarked for demolition to make way for a shopping plaza, has won a reprieve after an outcry from Chinese heritage groups.
3:00 AM AEST | VIENNA: Hundreds turned up at a Vienna bookshop where Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian kidnap victim held captive for more than eight years, read passages from her autobiography published this week.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: Pope Benedict's arrival in Britain breaks new ground on many levels, with a state welcome from the Queen and the beatification of Cardinal Henry Newman. But buried in the itinerary is another and, some would say, more piquant landmark.
3:00 AM AEST | BRUSSELS: The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been accused by the European parliament of stirring up racism through his anti-Gypsy campaign. The highly unusual vote against a leading EU country has humiliated the centre-right dominating the politics of Europe.
3:00 AM AEST | SAN FRANCISCO: At least one person was killed and more than 30 others injured when a massive explosion rocked a town south of San Francisco, setting homes ablaze and sending residents fleeing in panic.
3:00 AM AEST | SEATTLE: The father of a US soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly half a dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the army: troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it.
3:00 AM AEST | TOKYO: North Korea marked its 62nd anniversary this week amid speculation its dictator, Kim Jong-il, was not well enough to open a rare meeting of ruling party members that could see his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, effectively named the country's leader in waiting.
3:00 AM AEST | BEIJING: China rolled out the red carpet this week not only for Burma's dictator, General Than Shwe but, more surprisingly, a lower level delegation from the White House.
3:00 AM AEST | In a unique dispatch, Jonathan Franklin documents 24 hours in the subterranean existence of the San Jose miners.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: He was the hairy bloke dragged from his bed in the middle of the night, dishevelled and with the look of a startled drunk.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: Normally an occasion of sombre national unity, this year's commemoration of the September 11 attacks on the US threatens to further divide a nation struggling with religious tension.
3:00 AM AEST | Charges against two Tamil asylum seekers accused of rioting at the Christmas Island detention centre have been dropped.
3:00 AM AEST | After finding his abducted son, Ken Thompson wants to help other parents facing the same nightmare, writes Paola Totaro in Amsterdam.
10 Sep 10 | KEN THOMPSON has confirmed that his son, Andrew, has been found and they will be reunited "within a couple of days".
10 Sep 10 | A member of Germany's central bank who made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Jews in a disputed book has agreed to quit his position on the board, the Bundesbank said in a statement on Thursday.
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