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/ 11 October 2008
The US government plans to invest directly in US banks for the first time since the Great Depression, says Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
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/ 11 October 2008
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has boosted his Formula One world title chances by taking pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix.
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/ 11 October 2008
Swaziland’s Parliament was brought to a temporary halt on Friday when a newly elected lawmaker refused to pledge loyalty to the king’s heirs.
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/ 11 October 2008
Rebel forces have withdrawn from an army base in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after having taken it in fierce fighting.
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/ 11 October 2008
The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum on Friday and threatened to destroy the ship.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
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/ 11 October 2008
Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actor who appeared on All My Children for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90.
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/ 11 October 2008
About 100 people were feared drowned off the coast of Yemen after they were forced to swim ashore by smugglers, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2008
A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Friday that gay couples have the right to get married.
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/ 11 October 2008
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident.