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1:00 AM AWST | JOHANNESBURG: A row has erupted in South Africa after it emerged taxpayers are spending more than 15.5 million rand ($2.3 million) a year to support the President's three wives and some of his 20 children.
1:00 AM AWST | KAMPALA: Security forces shot and killed at least three people and wounded several others in clashes with protesters after a fire that gutted the tombs of four traditional kings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
1:00 AM AWST | TURKEY has threatened to expel 100,000 Armenians from the country in response to a US congressional committee branding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide.
1:00 AM AWST | SAN FRANCISCO: A San Jose federal judge has approved the $US 9.5 million ($10.3 million) settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the social networking site Facebook's program, Beacon, which published data on what users were buying.
1:00 AM AWST | DRESDEN: An official commission on the controversial Allied bombings of Dresden during World War II has concluded that up to 25,000 people were killed, fewer than often estimated.
1:00 AM AWST | LONDON: A kitchen porter at a leading private school has been arrested after allegedly poisoning the pupils' food.
1:00 AM AWST | LONDON: Pope Benedict, facing a burgeoning crisis and criticism over child abuse scandals inside the Catholic Church, is to write to the Irish people to plead for ''healing and renewal''.
1:00 AM AWST | WASHINGTON: Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other leaders deeper into hiding, leaving it less capable of sophisticated operations, the director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has said.
1:00 AM AWST | PORT-AU-PRINCE: DNA tests have allowed a judge in Miami to reunite a baby rescued from the rubble of the earthquake in Haiti with her parents.
1:00 AM AWST | JERUSALEM: The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Moscow yesterday for a meeting of the so-called Quartet on the Middle East, in an effort to resolve the diplomatic crisis over Israeli plans to build new housing in East Jerusalem.
1:00 AM AWST | BEIJING: The lawyer for one of the accused Rio Tinto employees says he is ready to fight for his client in court on Monday, despite widespread scepticism about China's judicial system.
1:00 AM AWST | WASHINGTON: Barack Obama's timetable for Congress to pass key healthcare measures is going down to the wire - which could further disrupt his travel plans to Indonesia and Australia.
1:00 AM AWST | JERUSALEM: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants killed a foreign worker inside Israel yesterday, Israeli medics said, in the first death from such an attack since Israel's Gaza offensive last year.
18 Mar 10 | TWELVE Australians are not yet accounted for in the region of Fiji battered by Cyclone Tomas.
18 Mar 10 | RIGA: About 1000 people took part in a flower-laying ceremony to commemorate Latvians who fought in two Waffen SS divisions on the side of Nazi Germany in World War II, while hundreds of police kept angry ethnic Russian protesters at bay.
18 Mar 10 | CHINESE authorities have defended detaining for six months lead poisoning victims who were seeking medical care, saying the punishment was necessary for ''public education''.
18 Mar 10 | THE Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is facing the first serious tests of his leadership as trusted political colleagues spark a schism in his ruling party and begin jockeying for the succession.
18 Mar 10 | BEIJING: Google appears to have missed a Monday deadline to re-register as an ''internet content provider'' in China, which observers say is a sign that it is preparing to shut down its search engine there.
18 Mar 10 | CAIRO: The future of one of the world's largest Islamic websites is in doubt after hundreds of staff went on strike, occupying their office, accusing new managers of trying to hijack the site in order to promote a hardline, conservative agenda.
18 Mar 10 | BAGHDAD: The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said the electoral commission was manipulating results and demanded a recount in Baghdad, home to the nation's largest group of voters.
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