Former US House of Representatives Republican Leader Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday.
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Cold weather has killed nine homeless people in India, bringing the death toll from three weeks of near-freezing temperatures to 116.
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/ 11 January 2011
Qatari driver Nasser al-Attiyah took the overall race lead after winning the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally on Monday.
At least 36 have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan’s north-south border, leaders in the Abyei region said on Monday.
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/ 11 January 2011
The flooding of the Vaal River has caused considerable crop damages along its banks in three provinces.
Jared Lee Loughner was suspended from college and had been in trouble with the police. Yet he could buy a gun and kill six people.
Thousands of people were urged to leave the outskirts of Brisbane — Australia’s third-largest city — on Tuesday, as flood waters raced eastwards.
After the shootings in Arizona, US left and right are at odds over effects of toxic politics.
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/ 11 January 2011
Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party is to oppose legislation to investigate funding of civil and human rights groups in Israel.
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Tunisia President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali blamed weekend rioting that left at least 14 people dead on "gangs of thugs".