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Russian soldiers parade blindfolded prisoners

Russia took the first steps towards a troop pullback from Georgia, but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound prisoners on armoured vehicles and seized four US Humvees. Read

Dozens dead after Algeria police academy bombing

A BOMB at a police college east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, yesterday killed 43 people and injured a further 38. Read

Ten French soldiers killed in Afghan ambush

A GROUP of elite French soldiers were killed by insurgents in Afghanistan as they climbed a mountain pass in a militant stronghold outside the capital, officials said yesterday. Read

McCain and Obama to silence 9/11 ads

US presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain plan to pull TV ads that criticise each other to mark the anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks. Read

Fire alert over first-generation iPods

Software giant Apple said today that iPod music players sold in 2005 and 2006 can, on rare occasions overheat, fail and deform because of a battery defect traced to a single supplier. Read

Skirted issue

A Catholic priest’s condemnation of mini-skirts on an official church website has sparked outrage among some Mexican women, who say the Roman Catholic Church is making it easier to justify sexual violence against women. Read

Abandoned baby whale weakening, say experts

A hungry and abandoned humpback whale calf that has been trying to suckle from boats in the waters off north Sydney rebuffed fresh attempts by wildlife workers to return it to the open ocean today and appeared to be weakening. Read

Russia rejects Nato warning over Georgian presence

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband was in Georgia last night as Nato stepped up pressure on Russia to withdraw its forces from the former Soviet state. Read

Top of the tots noise raid raving bonkers says school

Killjoy noise control officers ordered children at a nursery school disco to turn down Bob The Builder and the Chicken Dance or shut down their party. Read

Florida residents defy hurricane warning

Residents were defying warnings and taking a wait-and-see attitude as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept over the Florida Keys at the tip of the state and bore down on the Gulf Coast. Read

'No immunity deal' with ex-president Musharraf

Pakistan’s ruling coalition leaders are expected to meet today to discuss replacing Pervez Musharraf, as a minister stressed that the government had not made an immunity deal with the embattled former president. Read

Georgia-Russia prisoner exchange begins

The head of Georgia’s national security council today said an exchange of prisoners of war with Russia has begun. Read

Fears for whale calf who thinks yacht is its mother

A lost humpback whale calf that bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother will probably die within days unless it finds a female to adopt it, an expert said today. Read

Call for early election to fill huge gap left by Musharraf

THE UK Government last night urged an early election of a new president in Pakistan after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. Read

Children saved as police halt worldwide paedophile ring

FIFTEEN British children were saved from the clutches of paedophiles after a worldwide internet child abuse ring was closed down, it emerged yesterday. Read

Russian tanks and troops push further into Georgia

THERE was disagreement between Moscow and Tbilisi last night over whether Russia had begun withdrawing troops from Georgia, as promised. Read

Post-Musharraf Pakistan urged to tackle terror threat

THE new government of Pakistan should focus on tackling Islamic terrorism in the wake of the resignation of president Pervez Musharraf today, a British politician said. Read

Embattled Musharraf to address nation

President Pervez Musharraf’s spokesman says the embattled Pakistani leader, who faces impeachment, will address the nation later today. Read

China 'confiscates bibles' from American Christians

A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to leave the airport until they get the books back, their leader said today. Read

West expecting Russian withdrawal to begin

Russia’s president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia today, but suggested they could stay in the breakaway region at the heart of the fighting that has reignited Cold War tensions. Read

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