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| Britain refuses to dump Rushdie |
| Britain defended today its decision to award a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie after Muslims worldwide complained that honouring the author of The Satanic Verses was offensive to Islam.
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| Bloomberg clears buzz |
| New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said today he was not a candidate for US President in 2008 despite speculation he quit the Republican party to prepare to run as an independe
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| Foreign tag on dead militants |
| Most of the 32 militants killed in an apparent missile attack in a Pakistani tribal region were foreigners, mainly Uzbeks, a senior Pakistani government official said today.
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| Sarkozy denial |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published today he was not drunk at a news conference where he appeared slightly out of breath and trying not to laugh.
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| Mallory ‘feat’ still a mystery |
| A decades-old mystery over whether Britain’s George Mallory scaled Mount Everest three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary may remain unsolved, an American climber investi
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Pop star Christina Aguilera at a concert in Tokyo on Wednesday. (Reuters) |
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