Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has appeared apparently fit and well on state television after undergoing surgery in Germany. In footage apparently shot on Tuesday morning Mr Mubarak, 81, was shown sitting up clothed in a dressing...
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England and AC Milan midfielder David Beckham's injury heartbreak will not end his career, according to the veteran's agent. The 34-year-old has undergone surgery from professor Sakari Orava in Finland after rupturing his left Achilles tendon while playing for Milan in Sunday's victory over Chievo...
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MPs have said a new investigation must be set up to examine whether the state withheld vital intelligence from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers. The NI Affairs Committee said too many questions remained unanswered over how much the security services knew about the killers' movements at the time....
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Antonine Antoine sits with her daughter at their temporary home in Lascahobas, Haiti. Antoine's sister, Monique Michel, says she has gone through most of her savings to feed her extended family since the earthquake two months ago. The town's mayor said the refugees are "poor people overwhelming poor...
photo: US Navy / Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Spike Call
BANGKOK - Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood today as part of a plan to splatter the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections. "Red Shirt" demonstrators lined up to have their blood drawn by nurses, a day after...
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization among units in the field. Notes...
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith
Conflict was brewing between Berlin and Paris yesterday over the crisis in the eurozone as the German Finance Minister called for countries that fail to clean up their finances to be thrown out of the single currency. As European finance ministers prepared to meet in Brussels to agree the mechanism...
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Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern Afghanistan went on to inflict "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" on the survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said. The family of the victims in Paktiya province have accused Nato of trying to cover up...
photo: US Army file / Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith
