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Woman's fury as suicide survivor totals car Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:01 Edition 1
When a suicidal man threw himself from the top floor of a 39-storey building and landed on her car, it was a good thing Maria McCormack was not sitting inside. [ Full Story... ]

MP slams beheading call

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
THE HAGUE: Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, the country's most heavily guarded politician, yesterday denounced an Australian Muslim cleric's reported call for his beheading for denigrating Islam. [ Full Story... ]

More pain |for Pakistan Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 44 people in Pakistan yesterday, sharply driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by floods. [ Full Story... ]

Cops save woman from sick puppies

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
MUNICH: A young woman who has been falsely accused on the internet of drowning puppies in a river has been put under police guard. [ Full Story... ]

Smoker, 2, quits Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
JAKARTA: Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit. [ Full Story... ]

Nightmare jam

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
BEIJING: Thousands of vehicles were backed up for kilometres on a highway in northern China yesterday, the latest in a series of monster traffic jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this year. [ Full Story... ]

Knox 'was framed for sex murder' Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
ROME: Amanda Knox is innocent of the brutal sex murder of a British university student, a former FBI investigator said yesterday. [ Full Story... ]

Pilgrims pray

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
RIYADH: About 600 000 Muslims crowded into the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca for prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan yesterday. [ Full Story... ]

Quickie divorce

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
LONDON: The marriage of British X Factor judge and pop singer Cheryl Cole and her England soccer player husband Ashley ended in divorce after four years yesterday. [ Full Story... ]

Prince Harry accused of cruelty to animals Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
LONDON: Prince Harry was accused of animal cruelty this week after his horse suffered a bloody injury during a polo match. [ Full Story... ]

ADOLF HITLER HAD JEWISH AND AFRICAN ROOTS Subscribe today for premium content

2010-09-04 06:00:00 Edition 1
ADOLF Hitler is likely to have been descended from both Jewish and African people, according to DNA tests. [ Full Story... ]

'Hitler' sites get| to cat dumper Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
COVENTRY: Under police protection as the death threats poured in, cat dumper Mary Bale has gone into full apology mode. [ Full Story... ]

Election blues

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
CANBERRA: A week after Australians voted, politicians appear no closer to forming a government, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott scrambling to secure support from independent MPs. [ Full Story... ]

Video shows|miners in|good shape Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
COPIAPO: The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling "long live Chile, and long live the miners!" [ Full Story... ]

Nails taken out Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
COLOMBO: Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan maid who said the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. [ Full Story... ]

Baby of hope Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
LOS ANGELES: After the sudden death of their son Jett, they retreated from the public spotlight. [ Full Story... ]

Tiger cub smuggled in luggage as toy Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
BANGKOK: Authorities at Bangkok's international airport found a baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran. [ Full Story... ]

Quadrillion-dollar man! Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
LAS VEGAS: Life coaches encourage us to "think big". But sometimes you can take such cliches too far. One man in Las Vegas has just launched the biggest lawsuit in history. [ Full Story... ]

Al Fayed burned royal seals Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-28 06:00:00 Edition 1
HE has waged a high-profile war of words on the Royal Family for years. Now, former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has revealed how he ordered the royal warrants in his famous store to be burned. [ Full Story... ]

Deadly bear hug Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
CLEVELAND: Authorities say a bear - whose owner once staged wrestling shows featuring the animals - has mauled a 24-year-old man to death in Ohio. [ Full Story... ]

Paralysing is 'torture'

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
NICOSIA: Amnesty International urged Saudi authorities yesterday not to medically paralyse a man in retribution for similar injuries he allegedly caused during a fight. [ Full Story... ]

Becks's sister weeps as lover is jailed Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
LONDON: David Beckham's sister sobbed yesterday as her lover was jailed for bombarding his ex-girlfriend with vile abuse. [ Full Story... ]

Pakistan welcomes foe's flood aid gesture Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accepted $5 million (R36m) in aid from India for flood victims, a rare expression of goodwill between the feuding neighbours at a time when the country is reeling from one of its worst natural disasters. [ Full Story... ]

Britain pays| tribute to| bravery of |'the few' Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
LONDON: In the words of Winston Churchill, it was Britain's "finest hour", a turning point in world history - though it didn't always feel that way at the time. [ Full Story... ]

Agony over aunt

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
NAIROBI: A Kenyan official said yesterday that the government was unhappy with the impression created by a US court ruling that granted asylum to US President Barack Obama's aunt, who is his father's half-sister. [ Full Story... ]

Aussies head for polls Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
From the dusty outback to beachside booths and frozen Antarctic polling stations, millions of Australians voted today in an election employing 70 000 staff. [ Full Story... ]

Dagga-guard black bear find stuns police Subscribe today for premium content

2010-08-21 06:00:00 Edition 1
VANCOUVER: Police said on Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal dagga-growing operation during a recent raid on a property in western Canada. [ Full Story... ]