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07 Sep 10 | Adam Bennett was a skydiving instructor with more than 20 years' experience and a hatred of flying.
07 Sep 10 | CHRISTCHURCH: Scientists believe it is at least 16,000 years since the last rupture of the hidden fault that caused Saturday's earthquake and generated the strongest tremors ever recorded in New Zealand.
07 Sep 10 | CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand has extended a state of emergency in Christchurch, the army is enforcing a no-go zone in the heart of the city to prevent looting, and the unsettled population is being further unnerved by scores of aftershocks.
07 Sep 10 | LONDON: Natascha Kampusch, who was held prisoner in an Austrian cellar for eight years, has finally revealed the extent of her abuse at the hands of her kidnapper.
06 Sep 10 | Bosnian police have tracked down a Bosnian girl who sparked a worldwide manhunt after she was seen in a web video throwing half a dozen puppies into a river.
06 Sep 10 | Matthew Newton was reportedly kicked out of a pub in Rome after he became jealous of a man who approached his fiancee Rachael Taylor on the night the actor allegedly assaulted her in a hotel lobby.
06 Sep 10 | A UK politician has been left red-faced after the secret life of his wife was exposed.
06 Sep 10 | A record 21 babies were born at Christchurch Women's Hospital in the 24 hours following the earthquake, making it the hospital's most prolific Saturday.
06 Sep 10 | A state of emergency has been extended until Wednesday, as Christchurch deals with the practical and emotional consequences of Saturday's destructive earthquake.
06 Sep 10 | Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.
06 Sep 10 | Paul Hogan has landed back in Los Angeles, vowing to continue his aggressive fight with Australian tax authorities.
06 Sep 10 | The pilot of a small plane lost control while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and 33 injured, police say.
06 Sep 10 | dismissed the Nazi Holocaust of Jews during World War II as a new "superstition" for the West, media reported on Saturday.
06 Sep 10 | JOHANNESBURG: Robert Mugabe has never been known for his sense of humour so you would not want to be the apparatchik at Zimbabwe's State House explaining to the President how a music video that lampoons him as a chicken is threatening to go viral.
06 Sep 10 | PARIS: Tens of thousands of people have protested in cities across France against a government law-and-order crackdown that has targeted Roma Gypsies.
06 Sep 10 | LONDON: A former head of the British Army has accused Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down the armed forces.
06 Sep 10 | Pakistanis are donating to a flood-relief appeal run by a front organisation for a banned terrorist group because they believe it to be more effective and trustworthy than others soliciting support, especially the government.
06 Sep 10 | THE Christchurch earthquake shook up more than the house and surroundings of 89-year-old Bob McCombe.
06 Sep 10 | TRAPANI, Sicily: Rising above the sun-scorched countryside, looking out over hilltop villages and vineyards, Italy's wind farms - promising a clean, green future - have acquired a dirtier whiff. They are the latest industry to be infiltrated by the country's mobsters.
06 Sep 10 | CHRISTCHURCH: The quake turned a modern, relatively prosperous city into a place of curfews, with political leaders flying in and people clamouring for supplies in scenes reminiscent of disasters in less developed parts of the world.
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