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Mogadishu President Yusuf of Somalia resigned after a power struggle. The move could cause further chaos in the near-lawless country as Islamists linked to al-Qaeda scramble for power. “Most of the country is not in our hands,” he said. Troops from neighbouring Ethiopia, which had propped up the Government, are to pull out this week. (AP)

The speed limit on Fraser Island, one of Australia’s popular tourist destinations, will be reduced as a result of the fatal accident last week which killed British backpacker Ian Davy.

The United Auto Workers union will own 55 per cent of a restructured Chrysler, the embattled US carmaker, and its retiree health care trust will get a seat on the board of directors if union members vote to approve contract concessions later this week.

Liu Xiaobo writes: The internet is God's present to China

It was an image New Yorkers never wanted to see again: a jumbo jet trailed by two fighter jets buzzing dangerously close to the city’s most famous landmarks.

Diners in France can expect a little less pain when the bill arrives, under a deal in which restaurant owners promise to cut menu prices in return for a big drop in valued-added tax.

What is swine flu and where has it come from?

Flu is always a moving target for medicine because of its ability to reinvent itself to evade the body’s natural defences and vaccines and drugs.

Millions of pounds of British aid are being channelled by the Sri Lankan Government into controversial internment camps where it plans to hold and screen up to 200,000 civilians fleeing the conflict with the Tamil Tigers.

Jack Straw last night signalled a shift in government policy on Guantánamo Bay by promising to consider any request for Britain to take in more prisoners from the United States military detention camp in Cuba.

“I’m not going to stay at home, freaking out about the flu with a stupid mask on my face,” Bernardo de la Garza, 32, declared as he sipped an espresso outside an empty café in the wealthy Polanco district of Mexico City yesterday.

Is General Ashfaq Kiyani the most dangerous man in Pakistan? The most indecisive? Both?

The Taleban suspended talks with Pakistan’s Government yesterday, declaring negotiations to be worthless as clashes between militants and the army forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes.

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“Big blue diamonds, how they sparkle,” the great American R&B performer Little Willie John once sang, “but what can they do to warm your soul?” An answer of sorts was available at Sotheby’s in London yesterday where a rare — and utterly perfect — blue diamond went on display before going to auction next month.

President Karzai bowed to international pressure yesterday by promising to amend a new law condoning marital rape and child marriage that provoked violent clashes in the Afghan capital.

A swine flu outbreak at a New York school may have infected over 100 people after a group of pupils returned from a spring holiday in Cancun, Mexico.

Gordon Brown today defended plans to deport 11 Pakistani students who were arrested in a suspected terrorist plot even though no charges were brought against any of them.

A Chinese court has decided at the last minute to postpone judgment on a Tibetan living Buddha who faces 15 years in jail on charges of possessing illegal weapons and illegally seizing government land.

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