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Natalie Tran is a typical university student with one big difference - she's one of the most viewed people in the world on YouTube. ... more
Kevin Rudd calls Speedos "togs" and says when he refers to the King, he means Wally Lewis, not Elvis Presley. ... more
Emergency workers and residents in north Queensland are waiting for daybreak to find out the extent of the damage caused by Cyclone Ului as it crossed the coast. ... more
UN chief Ban Ki-moon begins a visit to Israel and the West Bank on Saturday, hot on the heels of a Middle East Quartet call for Israel to halt all settlement construction and for a peace deal with the Palestinians by 2012. ... more
Drug traffickers killed two policemen in a clash near the Pakistani border in southeastern Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported on Friday. ... more
Pope Benedict XVI apologised Saturday for Irish priests' sexual abuse of children in a letter with far-reaching implications, but victims said it did not go far enough in addressing the growing scandal. ... more
The United States will permit India to question a Chicago man who has admitted scoping out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Saturday. ... more
"Let's get this done... for the American people," President Barack Obama told the House of Representatives Saturday, a day before a crucial vote on health care reform. ... more
Three Asians died in an apartment block fire in a Kuwait City suburb that started in a basement used to store cosmetics and perfumes, the state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday. ... more
Beijingers woke up Saturday to find the Chinese capital blanketed in yellow dust, as a sandstorm caused by a severe drought in the north and in Mongolia swept into the city. ... more
There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal. ... more
Former top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice has voiced regret at the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq but says the Bush administration had in the end "got it right" in the country. ... more
Greece is cracking down on major cash transactions and will impose a high levy on the influential Orthodox church in a scramble to boost tax revenue in the face of a debt crisis. ... more
Cambodian police have arrested an Australian man on suspicion of paying for sex with underage girls over a number of years. ... more
The strong US reaction to Israeli settlement plans was "paying off," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday, with Israeli-Palestinian negotiations expected to resume. ... more
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A member of an Israeli special police forces unit arrests a Palestinian stone-thrower during clashes in the Shuafat Palestinian refugee camp in Israeli-annexed ...
