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latest news & developmentsProtesting pensioners strip in Melbourne
Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a standstill in Australia’s second-largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government. The scantily clad…
Baby born with two faces in India
A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said on Tuesday.…
One million face famine after rats feast on crops
The people of Mizoram, a tiny, remote state of north-east India, have known for the past 48 years that they would face famine in 2008. Confirmation came last November when the…
India reports fresh bird-flu outbreak
India on Tuesday confirmed a bird-flu outbreak among poultry following the deaths of thousands of chickens in the past week in the state of West Bengal. It is the country’s third…
500 000 forced to flee California wildfires
Fierce wildfires raged across Southern California on Tuesday, threatening more than 60Â 000 homes as night fell and forcing half a million people to flee in the state’s largest…