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12 Jul 10 | UK police are under investigation after one of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended in two officers firing stun guns at fugitive Raoul Moat and the wanted man shooting himself dead.
12 Jul 10 | Bahamas police have captured a teenage US fugitive, bringing to an end the Barefoot Bandit's two-year flight from US justice, a senior police official says.
12 Jul 10 | A gruelling heat wave shut down the air conditioning in three high-tech trains in Germany, leaving dozens of passengers near collapse trapped in temperatures of up to 50C, authorities said Sunday.
12 Jul 10 | Two young sisters have been rescued after clinging to a tree for four days to escape torrential floods which swept away their parents and a brother, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.
12 Jul 10 | The suspect in the Grim Sleeper killings was arrested at least 15 times for burglary, assaults and other crimes, but avoided prison even though a probation officer urged that he be given the maximum allowed, court and jail records show.
12 Jul 10 | LONDON: The Russian secret agent Anna Chapman used an exclusive internet networking club to forge a series of contacts with London financiers and industry leaders as well as models and events promoters.
12 Jul 10 | MOSCOW: The 14 spies swapped by Moscow and Washington are starting new lives in Russia and the West, but mystery shrouds their precise whereabouts after the biggest spy exchange since the Cold War.
12 Jul 10 | THE Chinese Government has accepted a compromise with Google that will allow the search engine to continue pointing users towards unfiltered search results.
12 Jul 10 | CHIPPENHAM, England: After queen and country, nothing was more dear in this region of elegant rural estates than the tally-ho tradition of mounted riders chasing hounds chasing a fox.
12 Jul 10 | BARCELONA: More than a million people have gathered in Barcelona to demand greater regional autonomy for Catalonia and protest against a recent court ruling forbidding the prosperous region from calling itself a nation.
12 Jul 10 | HANGA ROA, Chile: Tourists and scientists have poured on to Easter Island ahead of this morning's solar eclipse, a mixed blessing for the tiny Pacific outpost.
12 Jul 10 | PORT-AU-PRINCE: Bill Clinton has expressed frustration over the slow pace of Haiti's recovery from the earthquake this year.
12 Jul 10 | Lovers of fine food face a shortage of Beluga caviar that may last more than a decade.
12 Jul 10 | He is the man in whose hands many fortunes rest. From global stock markets to crippled coastal communities, from the White House to BP's boardrooms, his every move is awaited anxiously as he executes the hoped-for endgame for the world's worst accidental oil spill.
12 Jul 10 | In another attempt to control its gushing oil well, BP has begun a risky procedure that could contain all the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico in between four and seven days.
12 Jul 10 | THE European spacecraft Rosetta has performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction.
12 Jul 10 | PARIS: Before becoming a scandal about money, politics, art, history, cafe society and power, l'affaire Bettencourt – now threatening the Sarkozy presidency – was the story of two ferociously ambitious young Hungarian outsiders and their success at storming the citadels of the French establishment.
11 Jul 10 | LONDON: She dreamed a dream … and now Susan Boyle wants to make someone else's dream come true.
11 Jul 10 | SAN FRANCISCO: Police have clashed with protesters who looted businesses and smashed windows in Oakland, California, after a white policeman was convicted on a lesser charge of killing an unarmed black man.
11 Jul 10 | LONDON: The British model Naomi Campbell is to give evidence at the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor about a ''blood diamond'' he allegedly gave her, her spokeswoman says.
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