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/ 24 December 2011
Queen Elizabeth has paid a visit to her 90-year-old husband in hospital as the UK’s longest-serving royal consort recovered from minor heart surgery.
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/ 24 December 2011
In a damning statement, the Kremlin’s rights panel has called for the resignation of Russia’s election chief and snap parliamentary elections.
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/ 24 December 2011
South Africa and Sri Lanka both have the opportunity to put an end to unwanted records when they clash in their second Test of the series.
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/ 24 December 2011
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood has denied it was responsible for Friday’s Damascus suicide bombings that killed 44, saying the claims were fabricated.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea has vowed to uphold with ‘blood and tears’ Kim Jong-il’s son as ‘supreme commander’ as the country prepares him to be its leader.
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/ 24 December 2011
The death toll following violence over the past two days in northern Nigeria has risen sharply from seven to 46, medical sources have said.
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/ 24 December 2011
The Proteas’ latest fast bowling sensation has sustained a knee injury during practice for the second Test against Sri Lanka.
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/ 24 December 2011
Christians have begun flocking to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas following a tumultuous year of political upheaval and change across the Arab world.
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/ 24 December 2011
President Raul Castro has announced his intentions to release about 3 000 prisoners for ‘humanitarian reasons’ and reform onerous travel laws.
Twenty years after the collapse of the USSR, the Soviet past is still very present in Russia.