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26 Aug 10 | Brian Keenan spent four and a half years as a hostage in Beirut - much of the time in pitch darkness. He describes the mental and physical struggle that awaits the 33 Chilean miners as they face their own ordeal
26 Aug 10 | The mayor of New York has made an impassioned defence of plans to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site of the September 11 attacks.
26 Aug 10 | Trapped miners given devastating news: you may be stuck until Christmas.
26 Aug 10 | Apple is planning a September 1 event at which the company is expected to unveil an updated iPod line-up.
26 Aug 10 | A woman caught on camera dumping a cat in a bin says she is "profoundly sorry for a split second of misjudgment".
26 Aug 10 | Detectives searching for a missing British spy say they have launched a murder investigation after a body matching the man's description was discovered stuffed in a bag in his apartment near the headquarters of the MI6 spy agency.
26 Aug 10 | Tiger Woods's ex-wife Elin Nordegren has broken her silence about the couple's failed marriage in a magazine interview, expressing "shock and disbelief" upon learning about his multiple infidelities, US television reported on Wednesday
26 Aug 10 | More than a dozen apparently coordinated car bombs targeting Iraqi police and other attacks blamed on al-Qaeda killed 53 people on Wednesday, just days before the US military ends its combat mission.
26 Aug 10 | Dozens of Kabul schoolgirls were admitted to hospital on Wednesday after a suspected poison gas attack on their school, officials said.
26 Aug 10 | A plane crashed after having trouble landing in western Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people although two survived, a deputy provincial governor says.
26 Aug 10 | At least two people have been injured after bankers in western Switzerland received booby-trapped packages containing highly corrosive liquid, police confirmed on Wednesday.
26 Aug 10 | British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha have named their newborn daughter Florence Rose Endellion, Downing Street said on Wednesday.
26 Aug 10 | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fired darts from a crossbow at a grey whale to collect skin samples in the latest in a series of man-versus-nature stunts designed to cultivate the image of a macho leader.
26 Aug 10 | IT'S DUSK on Lake Kivu and fishermen sing while paddling out in their catamarans, three canoes secured together with poles. As twin volcanoes on the far shore disappear into the darkness, the men spark kerosene lamps to lure sardines into nets. Across the lake their lanterns cast tiny sequins of light.
26 Aug 10 | ROME: Greek archaeologists say that a building uncovered in modern Ithaca from the 8th century BC was the home of Odysseus, supporting theories that Homer's epic hero was real.
26 Aug 10 | A species of bacteria found in the Gulf of Mexico degrades oil faster at deeper and colder depths than expected, scientists said in a study that could explain how the BP oil spill has mostly disappeared.
26 Aug 10 | LONDON: A suspected British spy, believed to have been seconded to M16 from GCHQ - Britain's eavesdropping centre in Gloucestershire - has been found dead, his body stuffed into a sports bag in the bath of his London flat.
26 Aug 10 | CHISINAU: Moldova has seized almost two kilograms of the radioactive substance uranium-238 from a suspected group of traffickers, including former Interior Ministry officials.
26 Aug 10 | DUBAI: The Grand Mufti of Dubai has called for a curb on marriages between locals and foreigners as the price of marrying native brides has risen to more than $500,000.
26 Aug 10 | HONG KONG: Filipinos in Hong Kong have voiced fears of retribution following the bloody end to a hostage drama in Manila.
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