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Obama voted in by delegates
Salt Lake City News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
Salt Lake City News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
Salt Lake City News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Salt Lake City News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
Salt Lake City News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Salt Lake City News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
UAE president pardons jail inmates
Salt Lake City News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
British troops in grave danger in Afghanistan
Salt Lake City News.Net
Afghanistan is now more dangerous for British troops than Iraq has ever been, a new report has revealed.
Hijackers allow passengers to leave
Salt Lake City News.Net
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have freed all 95 passengers on board.
Barack Obama plot put together by rascists
Salt Lake City News.Net
US federal investigation authorities have said that people arrested in connection with a possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, were consumed by a seething hatred towards the Illinois Senator.
Cancer can be detected by odour
Salt Lake City News.Net
Researchers are developing a new tool to smell and identify specific gases exhaled in the breath of a person with cancer, for its early detection.
Bite reveals 51 poisonous snakes in apartment
CNN
Snakes found when man in Tokyo apartment called ambulance after he was bitten Man was bitten while trying to feed a snake, he was seriously ill for several weeks Snake cases were piled up in his...
Music mogul Suge Knight arrested in Las Vegas
CNN
Knight faces assault and drug charges after being accused of beating girlfriend Death Row Records founder posted bail and will be in court Police said couple fought after leaving strip...
Witnesses to Martin Luther King
International Herald Tribune
DENVER : She figured this dream for dead so many decades ago. Dezie Woods-Jones plans to stand Thursday night with her California delegation in a stadium here and listen to Barack Obama, the first...
Obama fits the job
USA Today
Calling Sen. Barack Obama ready for the White House, former president Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Denver on...
Fashion designer faces rape charges
The Australian
LOS Angeles prosecutors have dropped 30 of 59 sexual abuse charges against Indian-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, as jury selection got under way for his trial in California.
Suspected bomber attacks Pakistani police bus
Reuters
A suspected suicide bomber in a car rammed his vehicle into a Pakistani police bus carrying prisoners on Thursday and set off his explosives, killing several people, police said.
If you voted for Hillary, now vote for Barack
New Zealand Herald
All eyes now on an ego-bruised Bill Former President Bill Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the White House today, telling delegates to the Democratic convention that Obama...
Clintons united in Obama support
The Independent
The message from Hillary Clinton to supporters in Denver was as neon as the tangerine pantsuit she wore to the ball. All that she stood for during her historic quest to be American's first woman...
Obama makes unscripted Convention appearance
New Zealand Herald
Democrats officially choose Obama as first black nominee Senator Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention one day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former...
Jury wants family-killer executed
The Australian
AN unemployed drifter who kidnapped two children after butchering three members of their family in a crime spree that shocked the US should be executed, a federal jury in Idaho said overnight.
Language problems linked to plane crash
The Daily Telegraph
AUTHORITIES investigating yesterday's fatal small plane crash in Melbourne's south say they will examine claims about language barriers being a possible cause.
Students mark 21st birthdays with
USA Today
College students today celebrate 21st birthdays with an average of 12 drinks for men and nine for women, finds the most in-depth picture yet of the consequences of extreme partying.

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