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The man accused of perpetrating the largest ever hack of a military system,Gary McKinnon, who facing immediate deportation to the United States has been granted interim relief by European Court of Human Rights.

Burma’s state media said that the death toll from the devastating cyclone has now risen to more than 22,000.At least 41,000 are also missing three days after Cyclone Nargis hit the country, causing a huge tidal surge to sweep inland.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a victory over Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary.

Hundreds of people in several Chinese cities have gathered to demand a boycott of French products ‘No to French goods’ and denounce campaigns for Tibetan independence.

Buckingham Palace said Friday that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, has been admitted to a hospital with a chest infection.”His Royal Highness’s programme of engagements for the weekend has been cancelled,” a palace spokeswoman said.The duke is being treated by Professor John Cunningham, whose speciality is general medicine.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake occurred at 0633 local time on Friday (2233GMT on Thursday), according to the US Geological Survey has struck in Xinjiang province in the northwest of China.According to the US Geological Survey the quake hit at a depth of 22.9km (14.2 miles) and reported two aftershocks ,the first with a magnitude of 5.3 [...]

Manhunt 2, a “sadistic” video game  which was banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) over its portrayal of extreme violence, has been cleared for release following a legal challenge by its makers,Rockstar.”Manhunt 2 has been classified 18 for very strong bloody and sadistic violence, which takes the form of stealth executions.In order to [...]

Two Palestinian gunmen who were also killed,opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem on Thursday.Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said one of the gunmen was wearing an explosive belt. He said students were being evacuated from the building.At least eight people died according to police and rescue workers.

Rescue crews confirmed Friday that the French-made ATR 42-300 carrying 43 passengers and three crew members crashed Thursday at an altitude of 13,500 feet in an area known as Los Conejos plateau within the Sierra La Culata National Park,are all dead.According to Gen. Ramon Vinas, head of the civil aviation authority, the way the Venezuelan [...]

Kosovo’s parliament is called for an emergency session Sunday to formally declare independence from Serbia.”We are on the brink of a very crucial moment — an important decision that will make us one of the free nations of the world,We have to take decisions on the future of our nation” said Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.Bush [...]

Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth $160m are stolen from a Zurich museum by three masked and armed gang.The armed gang threatened a security guard before seizing the four paintings. The art theft is one of the biggest in the world in the last 20 years.The four paintings are Poppies near Vetheuil, [...]

Microsoft said Friday that it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion in a mix of cash and stock in an effort to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance in Internet search services and advertising.In response Yahoo said in a news release Friday that its board would evaluate Microsoft bid “carefully and [...]

Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia’s communist movement and pushed aside the country’s founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.
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A hotel-casino MGM Mirage’s 3,000-room Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas is being evacuated on the Las Vegas Strip because of a fire that’s broken out on the roof.The fire has been proving difficult to put out and the according to the BBC “firefighters have to get to the roof” and in 1980 claimed more [...]

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has begun, Wednesday, January 23, to mediate in Kenya, in an environment that remains tense.Former UN Secretary-General is to meet President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday, as attempts to end the crisis that followed the announcement, on December 30, the disputed election of President Kibaki.
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Foodstuffs, medicines, motorcycles, Coca-Cola, cigarettes … Tens thousands of Palestinians entering Egypt on Wednesday for supplies at Rafah, a town on the border between the Palestinian territory and Egypt, after days of Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. These entries were possible after the wall of separation between the two territories (a wall of metal [...]