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10:51 AM | LONDON: Five staff members at Britain's largest-selling tabloid The Sun have been arrested along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defence officials, detectives and News Corp say.
3:00 AM | LOS ANGELES: A woman who stole a baby from a Manhattan hospital more than two decades ago and raised the child as her own has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and will spend at least 10 years in prison.
Syrian rebels blame regime for car blasts
3:00 AM | ALEPPO, Syria: The Syrian government and opposition have blamed each other for two car bombs that struck security compounds in Aleppo, killing 28 people.
Obama's timely about-turn on the pill
3:00 AM | WASHINGTON: The US President, Barack Obama, has retreated from a culture war with America's Christian right, agreeing to amend his health care system so Roman Catholic organisations do not have to buy the morning-after pill for employees.
3:00 AM | Human rights groups have appealed to Malaysia not to send a young Saudi writer back to Saudi Arabia where he risks execution..
Baby Blue grabs the spotlight
3:00 AM | THE pop diva Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z have released pictures of their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, surprising fans by posting family shots on social networking site Tumblr rather than selling them in a lucrative magazine deal.
Nightmare honeymoon back to haunt
11 Feb 12 |  Gabe Watson is about to go on trial for the murder of his wife on the Great Barrier Reef. Jennifer Cooke previews the case.
Sex and the Atlantic City casinos
11 Feb 12 | The casino that Larry and Sid built on the New Jersey shore is chock-full of glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly. But nothing covers up the fact that it is several rugby fields filled with thousands of slot machines and hundreds of card tables - not even the skimpily clad Borgata Babes who patrol the aisles with their drinks trays.
Attack from within
11 Feb 12 | As the world stands by, Syrians are fighting an increasingly desperate battle, writes Ruth Pollard in Tripoli, Lebanon.
11 Feb 12 | The military remains a powerful yet secretive force, writes Hamish McDonald in Rangoon.
11 Feb 12 | Eight years after a fairytale wedding to his princess bride, Tina, Alabama packaging company salesman Gabe Watson will go on trial for her murder next week.
As Syria bleeds
11 Feb 12 | The subdued, early morning, grey-blue sky is mesmerisingly calm on the live webcam that is trained across the rooftops of the besieged Syrian city of Homs.
Khan bowls over electorate but critics fear his 'dangerous ideas'
11 Feb 12 | Not for a quarter of a century - since Benazir Bhutto's rapturous return from exile - had anybody even attempted to fill Lahore's massive Minar-e-Pakistan grounds for a political rally.
Australian entangled in a final act of civil war
10 Feb 12 | MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka: In the frantic confusion of the last hours of the Tamil Tigers' war, some sought a way out. Through text messages and phone calls they offered an unconditional surrender, in return for safe passage out of the war zone.
'I was kicking and screaming': cameras capture brave Brittney's abduction ordeal
10 Feb 12 | It’s every parent’s worst nightmare and security cameras in a US department store have captured it on tape: the moment a stranger tried to abduct a seven-year-old girl from under her mother’s nose.
10 Feb 12 | Heather Mills, the former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, never authorised former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she has told Britain’s inquiry into press standards.
10 Feb 12 | MALE, the Maldives: A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for the former president Mohamed Nasheed, who stepped down from power this week but then insisted he had been ousted in a coup.
10 Feb 12 | AUSAID is considering a new strategy for Afghan assistance - spending more than $20 million over the next four years on mainly agricultural projects to assist poor residents in drought-stricken areas and to help strengthen local Afghan non-government organisations, a leaked concept paper shows.
10 Feb 12 | RANGOON: Last September Burma's economic planners came up with an ingenious scheme to lower the value of the national currency, the kyat, which had pushed up to a level hurting exports, such as beans and rice, and discouraging investment in garments and textiles.
Don't rush to Burma, firms told
10 Feb 12 | Burma's hardliners and reformers are locked in an intensifying power struggle.
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