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    Children from a poor part of Delhi sell roses on a busy road. The poverty line for India's cities is $12.75 per person per month

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    Men fined for Fiona Bruce Antiques Roadshow string attack




    Two men have been arrested and fined for spraying the BBC presenter Fiona Bruce with aerosol string while she was filming the Antiques Roadshow in Devon.

    Ms Bruce was making an episode of the show at Hartland Abbey, near Bideford, on 7 July when she was targeted.

    The men, aged 42 and 32, were arrested for common assault and issued with £80 fixed penalty fines, Devon and Cornwall Police have confirmed.

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    KFC leaves Fiji amid crumbs row



    The fried-chicken restaurant chain KFC has halted operations in Fiji, amid a row over imports of the ingredients to make its flavoured crumb coating.

    The multinational said Fiji's military government had stopped it from importing herbs, milk and eggs.

    Fijian officials said two cartons of eggs and milk had been delayed because KFC needed to provide documentation.

    They accused the firm of exaggerating the row, and say KFC is pulling out because its operation has gone bust.

    Agriculture permanent secretary Colonel Mason Smith said the firm was using mischievous public relations tactics.

    "The onus is on KFC to provide us with a simple veterinary certificate, that is all we ask," he said.

    KFC said that the military government had stopped imports of its herb salt, milk and eggs late last year.

    The firm, which has three restaurants in Fiji, said the import problems coupled with rising food prices had made it impossible to make a profit.

    But Elvis Silvestrini, of Fiji's biosecurity authority (BAF), disputed KFC's version of events.

    "The truth is BAF has only temporarily withheld two cartons of milk and egg mix because KFC did not have the required documentation," he was quoted as saying in the state-controlled Fiji Times.

    "We have been waiting for the veterinary certificate since early May [2011]. When this is provided, we'll be able to release the cartons."

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    Leeds paedophile Daniel Taylor had 300,000 pictures



    A paedophile who police believe is the UK's most prolific collector of child abuse images has been given an indeterminate jail sentence.

    Daniel Taylor, 31, of Farnley, Leeds had more than 300,000 images of abuse and pleaded guilty to 27 offences.

    At Bradford Crown Court, he admitted 20 counts of making indecent images, four of taking indecent images and two counts of sexual assault on a baby.

    Judge Rodney Grant said Taylor had been "opportunistic and predatory".

    Police in London identified Taylor as being "the single most prolific 'owner' of such images in the UK".

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    Merseyside Police sacks five Matrix officers



    Five officers from Merseyside Police's Matrix unit, which tackles gang crime, have been sacked for gross misconduct.

    It comes after images of them "behaving inappropriately" during a search of a suspect's home came to light, a force spokeswoman said.

    All five were constables. A sergeant was dismissed in May.

    "We expect the highest standards from our officers and these officers fell far short of that expectation," Deputy Chief Constable Bernard Lawson said.

    "Our residents and communities have the right to expect our officers to act professionally and with integrity at all times so that they can have confidence in the work that we do.

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    Rumsfeld Iraq 'torture' suit given go-ahead



    A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured in Iraq can sue former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

    The man's lawyers say he was abducted by the US military and abused at a US military detention centre near Baghdad.

    The government says he was suspected of helping pass information to the enemy, although he was never charged.

    It is the second time that a federal judge has allowed a US citizen to sue Mr Rumsfeld over torture claims.

    The man who brought the suit approved by US District Judge James Gwin is an army veteran in his 50s.

    He was released from Camp Cropper detention centre in Iraq in 2006.

    In 2008, he filed a suit at the US District Court in Washington claiming that Mr Rumsfeld had personally approved interrogation techniques involving torture on a case-by-case basis, the Associated Press news agency reports.

    Mike Kanovitz, a lawyer for the former contractor, said it appeared his client had been held to prevent him speaking about a contact he had made with a sheikh while gathering intelligence in Iraq.

    Mr Rumsfeld has been represented by the Obama administration, through the justice department.

    It argues that Mr Rumsfeld cannot be sued personally for official conduct, that wartime decisions are the constitutional responsibility of Congress and the president and cannot be reviewed by a judge, and that the case risks creating a threat of liability that could hamper future military decisions.

    Mr Rumsfeld is appealing against a 2010 ruling by an Illinois judge who said two other former contractors held at Camp Cropper could pursue claims that they were tortured using methods approved by the former defence secretary.

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    US woman caught 'smuggling ammunition into Mexico'




    A US woman has been arrested at the Mexican border for allegedly trying to smuggle 3,500 rounds of ammunition.

    Security officials said Gwendolyn Marrufo Sanchez had hidden the ammunition under tins of food in a shopping bag on wheels.

    The soldiers said they had become suspicious when they noticed the extreme weight of the trolley.

    They said she confessed to planning to sell the cartridges in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.

    Ms Marrufo Sanchez was crossing into Mexico at the Ciudad Juarez border post on a public bus from El Paso, Texas, when soldiers conducted a routine search.

    Under some clothes and tinned food, they found 50 boxes of cartridges for AK-47 rifles and 45 boxes of ammunition for various calibre weapons.

    She is being held at a detention centre in northern Chihuahua state.

    Mexican President Felipe Calderon has repeatedly urged the US government to tighten laws regulating the sale of guns and ammunition in the US to prevent high-powered weapons being smuggled into Mexico.

    In June, a US Congressional report suggested some 70% of firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes in 2009 and 2010 and submitted for tracing came from the US.

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    Fogel murders: Israeli court convicts Palestinian man




    An Israeli military court has found an 18-year-old Palestinian man guilty of the murder of a settler family in the West Bank, an army spokesman has said.

    Hakim Awad had confessed to murdering Udi and Ruthie Fogel, and three of their children, as they slept in their home in the Itamar settlement in March.

    His brother, 19-year-old Amjad Awad, is also standing trial for the attack.

    The murders shocked Israelis and were also condemned by Palestinian leaders and the international community.

    Illegal weapons
    On Wednesday, the Shomron Military Court found Hakim Awad guilty of stabbing to death the family of five, including a three-month-old baby, on 11 March in Itamar, a settlement located some 5km (3 miles) south-east of the Palestinian city of Nablus.

    He was also convicted of a charge of carrying illegal weapons. It is not clear when a sentence will be handed down.

    In court, Hakim Awad corrected the judge on several occasions as his indictment was read out, according to Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

    He told the court that his relatives had been shocked to hear of the attack and had beaten him when they found out, it reported.

    Three-month-old Hadas Fogel was among those killed

    But later, he said, they helped him conceal the weapons he had used, after he threatened to carry out another murder, it added.

    The charge sheet states that Hakim Awad and Amjad Awad acted of their own free will, although they also belong to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a radical group which has carried out attacks on Israelis in the past.

    The two men were alleged to have travelled from their village, Awarta, after dark on the night of the attack, cutting their way through Itamar's security fence and stealing an M-16 assault rifle and ammunition from an empty house.

    'Inhuman'
    At the Fogel home, two children - Yoav, 11 and Elad, four - were stabbed and killed after being seen in the window.

    Parents Udi, 37, and Ruthie, 36, were next to die, stabbed and killed despite a struggle in their bedroom. Ruthie was also shot, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

    The youngest victim, three-month-old Hadas, was killed last when she was spotted by the killers on their way out.

    Two other children, Roi Fogel, eight, and Yishai Fogel, two, were unharmed.

    The bloody scene was discovered by another child, 12-year-old Tamar Fogel, as she returned home later in the evening.

    In the weeks following the murders, Israeli security forces arrested dozens of suspects.

    A hearing from Amjad Awad is expected to be held later this month. He is also reported to have confessed to the murders.

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called those behind the killings "immoral and inhuman".

    There are almost 500,000 settlers living on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements are regarded as illegal under international law although Israel disputes this.

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    Mexico arrests 'deputy financier of Zetas drug cartel'




    The Mexican military says it has arrested the alleged number two financial operator of the Zetas drug cartel.

    Valdemar Quintanilla Soriano was captured in the northern city of Saltillo in Coahuila state, where weapons and cash were also found.

    Another Zetas suspect, Jose Guadalupe Yanez Martinez, was also detained.

    The Zetas and the Gulf Cartel are in a bloody battle for control of drug smuggling routes to the United States.

    "During the last months, Quintanilla Soriano often travelled to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Saltillo and Monclova in Coahuila to coordinate finance matters as well as the payment to authorities working for the criminal organisation," said Colonel Ricardo Trevilla, spokesman for Mexico's National Defence Secretariat.

    Another key Zetas suspect, Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, was arrested a month ago.

    The Zetas were formed by former Mexican special forces soldiers.

    Mr Rejon was a member of the Mexican special forces but deserted in 1999, officials say.

    The Zetas initially acted as armed enforcers for the Gulf Cartel.

    The Zetas have since split with their former paymasters, and have been engaged in brutal turf wars for control of smuggling routes.

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    France to extradite Manuel Noriega to Panama



    France has confirmed it will extradite Manuel Noriega to Panama, where he is wanted over human rights violations during his rule in the 1980s.

    The former Panamanian military leader is currently serving a prison sentence in France for money laundering.

    Prior to that, he spent 20 years in prison in the US after being convicted there of drug-trafficking charges.

    It is expected that Noriega will be sent next month to Panama, where courts have already convicted him in absentia.

    He was found guilty of three charges of human rights violations. Each conviction carried a 20-year prison sentence.

    The 77 year old will have a month to launch an appeal to prevent his extradition. However, his lawyer has said he wants to return to Panama.

    Once a US ally, Noriega was deposed by invading American troops in 1989, amid allegations he had turned Panama into a drug-trafficking hub.

    He was extradited from the US to France last year, having been sentenced in absentia there in 1999 to seven years in jail.

    That charge related to the laundering of money from Colombian drug gangs through a French bank, in order to buy property in Paris.

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    China arrests 2,000 people in food safety crackdown




    China has arrested 2,000 people and shut down nearly 5,000 businesses in a clampdown on illegal food additives, after a series of food safety scares.

    The campaign was launched in April after scandals from glow-in-the-dark meat to buns injected with dye to make them look like a more expensive kind.

    Nearly six million food-related businesses have been investigated.

    Police have also destroyed a series of "underground" sites for the illegal manufacture of such food products

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    David Hicks memoir: Australian court freezes proceeds




    An Australian court has frozen proceeds from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.

    The case is being brought by the Australian government under a law banning profits from crime.

    Hicks's legal team says the law does not apply because his conviction by a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay was invalid.

    Hicks spent five years at the facility before pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism.

    His book Guantanamo, My Journey, tells the story of his incarceration at the controversial detention centre in Cuba.

    The Australian government wants to retrieve any profits that Hicks has made from the book, claiming he has benefited financially from a crime.

    The memoir has sold about 30,000 copies.

    It is not known how large an advance Mr Hicks received from the publisher, but estimates on royalty income so far hover at about A$100,000 ($107,000, £65,900).

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    Eric Miyeni column: South Africa's Sowetan editor quits




    The editor of South Africa's biggest newspaper has resigned over an article which seemed to condone violence.

    Columnist Eric Miyeni wrote a scathing article about a rival editor who had questioned the lavish lifestyle of ruling African National Congress (ANC) youth leader Julius Malema.

    Sowetan editor Len Maseko's resignation follows that of Mr Miyeni who accused the paper of not backing him.

    The row comes as the government considers tighter media regulations.

    Those arguing for this could see this latest controversy as justification to tighten the laws on the media, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.

    Earlier this year, powerful minister Trevor Manuel got involved in a row over a column in another South African newspaper, which was offended coloured (mixed-race) people.

    Mr Miyeni's Monday article read: "Julius Malema must never answer a Ferial Haffajee. Who the devil is she anyway if not a black snake in the grass, deployed by white capital to sow discord among blacks? In the 80s she'd probably have had a burning tyre around her neck."

    This was a reference to the practice of necklacing - a form of punishment used during the struggle against white minority rule in which burning tyres were placed around people's necks.

    The article has received widespread criticism, with complaints that it crossed the line between freedom of expression and racial-tinged abuse and incitement to violence.

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    Campaigners to shun UK inquiry into detainee 'torture'



    Reprieve's Clare Algar: "Sadly the terms of the inquiry have indeed meant it will be shrouded in secrecy



    Campaigners and lawyers acting for former detainees say they will boycott an inquiry into the alleged torture and mistreatment of UK terror suspects.

    Sir Peter Gibson's detainee rendition inquiry is due to start at the end of an ongoing police investigation.

    But 10 campaign groups said the process lacked credibility and transparency, and too much would remain secret.

    An inquiry spokeswoman said the decision was regrettable but confirmed it would still go ahead.

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    The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child considers marriage before the age of 18 a human rights violation, but the reasons for it vary from country to country and are complex



    Child bride Krishna (R), 12, laughs with her husband Kishan Gopal, 14, at her house in a village near Baran, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 30. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, but marriages like these are common, especially in poor, rural areas where girls in particular are married off young. Some 47 percent of women aged between 20 and 24 years old were married before the age of 18, according to the government's latest National Family Health Survey.



    Child bride Krishna,11, sits during a marriage ceremony at her husband's home in a village near Kota, located in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, in this May 16, 2010 file photo. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, but weddings like these are common, especially in poor, rural areas where girls in particular are married off young. Some 47 percent of women aged between 20 and 24 years old are married before the age of 18, according to the government's latest National Family Health Survey.



    Sapna Meena, 15, stands in front of her house in the remote Indian village of Badakakhera in Bhilwara District in the western state of Rajasthan, in this June 22 file photo. In April, her family wanted her to become a child bride -- an illegal yet common practice in this part of India. With the support of the local authorities, she convinced her family to stop the wedding plans and became a role model for other girls in the village who also resisted child marriage. India is considered a child marriage 'hotspot', with 45 percent of women married before the legal age of 18, according to the International Centre for Research on Women.

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    Members of the military leave after a United States Joint Forces Command Disestablishment Ceremony held on the parking lot of JFCOM in Suffolk,Va. The Defense Department formally disbanded one of its military headquarters on Thursday in an effort to eliminate bureaucracy and cut costs. U.S. Joint Forces Command was responsible for training troops from all services to work together for specific missions and had a $1 billion budget. The command had employed about 5,700 military and civilian personnel in Virginia, Nevada and Florida, with the bulk of those working at its headquarters in southeast Virginia.

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    A child stands in front of her home at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, on Thursday, Aug 4. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, when the country first collapsed into anarchy. But now more than 1,000 are arriving daily, fleeing fighting or hunger.

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    Buddhist monk Geshe Tenley laughs as his robes flap in the breeze on the bow of a boat during the release of lobsters back into the ocean on "Chokhor Duchen", or the anniversary of Buddha's turning of the Dharma Wheel, in the waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. The group of Buddhists released about 500 lobsters that were caught by commercial lobstermen, after buying the lobsters from a wholesaler who would otherwise have sold the crustaceans to restaurants.






    Buddhists pray before releasing lobsters back into the ocean during "Chokhor Duchen" in Gloucester on Wednesday


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    An Afghan carries his belongings as he passes burning fuel tankers in the outskirts of Kabul on Thursday, August 4.



    Afghan men carry a man after he collapsed when he tried to get his belongings out of his burning fuel tanker on the outskirts of Kabul on Thursday.

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    Heavy metal music fans take a group bath before the first main performance on the first day of the Wacken Open Air heavy metal music fest on August 4, 2011 in Wacken, Germany. Approximately 75,000 heavy metal fans from all over the world have descended on the north German village for the annual three-day fest.

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    The Indian Navy sprung into action today to resuce a crew of 30 after stormy weather claimed a ship transporting coal between Indonesia and India.



    An Indian Navy helicopter rescues a crew member off a sinking ship off the coast of Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. The ship was carrying 60,000 tons of coal from Indonesia to India and sank off the coast of Mumbai after its crew of 30 was rescued when it began taking on water in stormy seas.



    A crew member of a sinking ship is hoisted onto an Indian Navy helicopter performing rescue operations as merchant ship MV Rak sinks in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Aug. 4.



    Rescued crew members sit aboard a container ship after being rescued from their stricken vessel off the Mumbai coast. The Panama-flagged MV Rak Carrier, a 220-meter (722-foot) long vessel was on voyage from Indonesia to Port Dahej (Gujarat), carrying coal, when it sank off the coast of Mumbai, after all of its 30 crew comprising of Indonesians, Jordanians and Romanians were airlifted by two helicopters and ferried across to the helicopter base INS Shikra.

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    As the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, memories of that fateful day can be seen at nearly every corner



    A mural honoring victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, in the Queens borough of New York, on Aug. 2.



    A mural honoring victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Aug. 2.








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    A woman sleeps in a tent encampment in protest of the cost of living in Tel Aviv, Israel. What started out as a sprinkling of tents pitched along Tel Aviv's Tony Rothschild Boulevard, named for the wealthy Jewish banking family, has swollen into the most ferocious outcry in decades. Initially targeting soaring housing prices, it quickly morphed into a sweeping expression of rage against a wide array of economic issues.

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    Nobody remembers the guy that came second, do they?

    50 years ago this Saturday, Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second man to orbit the earth, a historic achievement long eclipsed by the first space flight of his friend and rival Yuri Gagarin just a few months earlier.



    A file picture dated August 1961 of Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov during a training session before the Vostok 2 space mission.

    The Soviet authorities only made the decision in favor of Gagarin on the eve of the flight. In the archive footage, Titov makes no attempt to disguise his disappointment, hanging his head as the official decision is announced.

    "Journalists said I was so glad for Gagarin," Titov said in rare comments in 1985. "Of course, there was nothing of the sort."




    Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (C) embraces cosmonauts Gherman Titov (L)and Yuri Gagarin (R) after Titov returned from the Vostok 2 space mission, on Red Square in Mosco, on August 9, 1961

    Remarkably, Titov remains the youngest person to have made it into space, according to space.com.

    He was a month shy of his 26th birthday when he launched into orbit.

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    Tehran water pistol fight

    More than 500 people participated in a water gun festival in the Iranian capital - only for the authorities to arrest some participants after ruling their actions abnormal and un-Islamic















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