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16 Mar 10 | THOUSANDS fled their homes as two massive cyclones tore through the South Pacific, flattening houses and villages.
16 Mar 10 | LONDON: Two Britons accused of kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail after a mother complained that her child had seen them.
16 Mar 10 | ASSAILANTS gunned down three people returning from a party at a US consulate employee's home in the Mexican city of Juarez, including a pregnant US government employee and her husband, in two attacks a few minutes apart.
16 Mar 10 | DUBLIN: Ireland's most senior Catholic cleric has rejected calls to quit after being accused of trying to cover up allegations of sex abuse by a notorious pedophile priest in the 1970s.
16 Mar 10 | MOSCOW: People made emergency calls reporting heart attacks. Others rushed in a panic to buy bread and petrol. All this after a television station in Georgia broadcast a mock newscast on Saturday, pretending to report on a Russian invasion of the country.
16 Mar 10 | SHANGHAI: The ''invasion'' of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped, the country's senior translator says.
16 Mar 10 | THOUSANDS fled their homes as two massive cyclones tore through the South Pacific, flattening houses and villages.
16 Mar 10 | AUSTRALIAN soldiers deployed in East Timor have been accused of asking Timorese their political views in violation of the country's constitution.
16 Mar 10 | LOS ANGELES: Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps in the long-running television series Mission: Impossible, has died.
16 Mar 10 | PARIS: The governing party of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been beaten by the opposition Socialists in the first round of regional elections, which were marked by a record low voter turnout.
16 Mar 10 | AUSTRALIAN soldiers deployed in East Timor have been accused of asking Timorese their political views in violation of the country's constitution.
16 Mar 10 | BANGKOK: Grenade attacks on a Bangkok military base wounded two soldiers yesterday as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in the capital, a military spokesman said. Four M-79 grenades exploded, injuring one soldier in the arm and the other in the stomach, an army spokesman, Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd, said.
15 Mar 10 | HADRIAN'S WALL, NORTHUMBERLAND: When the first pinpoint of light shimmered red on the peak of a faraway cliff, it elicited a primal, appreciative roar from the crowds in fields below.
15 Mar 10 | LONDON: Labour Party ministers will unveil plans to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a 300-member, wholly elected second chamber in a key political move before the general election.
15 Mar 10 | ATLANTA: Doctors have found a relation between sharemarket fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Centre says.
15 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: Beginning as a spat over a housing project, a dispute between the Obama administration and Israel last week has ballooned into the biggest US-Israeli clash in 20 years, adding to months of strain between the US and one of its closest allies.
15 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: More than a year of high ambition and political wrangling have come down to a make-or-break week for Barack Obama and US Democrats seeking to clinch a historic revamp of America's healthcare system.
15 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: Federal officials have confirmed that a second American woman has been caught up in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who angered the Muslim world with a derogatory drawing of the prophet Muhammad.
15 Mar 10 | BANGKOK: Key parts of Bangkok have been paralysed as tens of thousands of anti-government ''red-shirt'' protesters shut down roads. The government was considering declaring a state of emergency and handing control of the city to the army.
15 Mar 10 | GREECE initially sent a distress call to its wealthier expatriates, but has now extended the appeal to all Hellenes who might have some spare change.
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