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Australia v India: MS Dhoni banned for final Test match
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become the first captain to be suspended for bowling a slow over-rate during India's heavy defeat by Australia in Perth.
A new International Cricket Council ruling means Dhoni misses next week's fourth Test in Adelaide because this is his second offence within 12 months.
Umpires Aleem Dar and Kumar Dharmasena reported Dhoni after India were ruled to be two overs short of their target.
Dhoni was fined 40% of his match fee and his team-mates received 20% fines.
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Three die in South Korean ship explosion
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A South Korean cargo ship has sunk after an explosion on board, killing at least three crew members, the coast guard says.
Eight people are still missing and five others have been rescued in the incident north of Jawol island, near the port of Incheon.
The blast happened in the morning after the ship had unloaded oil products.
The cause is being investigated, but officials say it is unlikely to be the result of an attack by North Korea.
"The explosion took place far below the sea border with North Korea. We see very little possibility (of attacks by the North)," a coastguard spokesman told the AFP news agency.
The ship's owners said that the explosion could have been caused by gases leaking from the ship's oil tanks.
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KHARTOUM, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir met with Li Yuanchao, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), on Sunday to discuss ways to promote relations between the two countries.
Li, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said China is willing to strengthen dialogue and exchanges with Sudan, deepen political relations, expand pragmatic cooperation, achieve mutual benefits and win-win outcomes, boost the traditional friendship, enhance coordination and preserve the peace and stability.
Sudan is one of China's best friends in Africa, Li said, adding that cooperation between the two countries will not change no matter how the situation changes.
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RIYADH, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday called for an end to violence against civilians in West Asia and North Africa.
The Chinese leader made the remarks during a meeting with Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in the Saudi capital.
Wen said China and the OIC shared common interests in safeguarding peace and stability in West Asia and North Africa, adding the OIC and the Arab League could play an important role in this regard.
He also said China supported the popular appeals for reform in the countries concerned, and China hoped and believed the governments and peoples in these regions had the ability to solve their own problems.
The Chinese premier said the friendship between China and the Arab world had a long history and had made major contributions to human civilization
continues at Chinese premier calls for end to violence in West Asia, North Africa - Xinhua | English.news.cn
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Delhi, India: A child is administered polio drops by a mobile medical unit
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Belalp-Blatten, Switzerland: A group of skiers dressed as witches participate in "Hexenabfahrt" (downhill of the witches)
Reminds me of the ex somewhat! :)
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Copenhagen, Denmark: Queen Margrethe waves from a horse-drawn carriage
Carry on paupers! :)
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Guatemala City, Guatemala: Indigenous people attend the inauguration of Otto Perez Molina as the country's new president
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Mexico City, Mexico: Japanese artist and calligrapher Sachiyo Kaneko paints during a performance in a park
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Bogota, Colombia: Matador Juan Viriato in a bullfight at the Santamaria bullring
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Lyon, France: People hold a banner during a demonstration of the Youth Nationalist Movement
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Dhaka, Bangladesh: Muslims climb up on to a train as they attend the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the third day of the second largest congregation
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Bucharest, Romania: Protestors negotiate with police on University Square
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James Bond motors go on display at Beaulieu
The Bond in Motion exhibition – featuring 50 original vehicles used in the James Bond films to celebrate 50 years of 007 – opens on 17 January at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire
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Former Bond girl Britt Ekland sits on the bonnet of the original Aston Martin DB5 at a new exhibition, Bond in Motion, at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire
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A Jaguar XKR convertible from Die Another Day
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Visitors walk past a Ford Mustang Mach 1 from the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever
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A damaged Aston Martin DB5 from the James Bond film Quantum of Solace
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British actress Madeline Smith poses for photographers in front of a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow 2
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A man photographs the Glastron GT-150 Jump Boat with the BMW 750iL at the Bond in Motion exhibition at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum
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Kenneth Wallis poses for photographers with his invention, Little Nellie, at the opening of a press preview of the Bond in Motion exhibition
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A BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough
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British special effects coordinator Chris Corbould poses for photographers in front of a crashed Aston Martin DBS
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Red Cross and Lebanese Civil Defense members search for survivors in a collapsed residential building in the Ashrafieh neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, 15 January 2012. The five-storey building, erected in the 1960s, collapsed due to cracks in its walls that came as a result of bad weather conditions. The building collapse killed a 15-year-old girl and injured eight people, police said.
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Relatives of Arfa Karim Randhawa, a 16-year-old girl from Pakistan who made international headlines as a 9-year-old when she became the youngest person in the world to be named a Microsoft Certified Professional - a designation for independent experts in Microsoft technologies, attend her funeral in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Jan. 15. Reports state that Arfa Karim died on Jan. 14 after remaining in the hospital for 26 days following an epileptic attack.
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Amjad Karim Randhawa, center, father of Arfa Karim Randhawa, comforts his relatives during her funeral in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Jan. 15.
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Smoke rises above the Khazret Sultan mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan, Jan. 15. The mosque, which is regarded as the largest in Central Asia, was on fire on Sunday and 20 vehicles were involved in the firefighting operation.
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Damage is seen on the Doola 3, an oil tanker carrying petroleum, after it exploded in waters off South Korea's western port city of Incheon Jan. 15.
Doola Shipping, which operates the ship, said the explosion seems to have taken place while gas was being drained from the oil tank. "The vessel usually transports diesel, but this time it carried gasoline. We are now examining whether it had any relation to the explosion," a company official said.
The explosion was not caused by any external shock, Coast Guard officials said, adding it suddenly occurred when some crew members were cleaning the oil tank on the deck. They will request a forensic test for the case, the officials said
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Boats of the South Korean Coast Guard patrol near the damaged Doola 3, center, an oil tanker carrying petroleum, after it exploded in waters off South Korea's western port city of Incheon Jan. 15. Five crew members were killed and six others are missing after the explosion of the 4,191-tonne freight ship, which had been carrying 16 crewmen -- 11 Koreans and 5 Myanmarese -- on board, in waters north of Jawol Island near Incheon, according to the coast guard.
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Danny Care guilty of drink-driving on New Year's Day
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England rugby player Danny Care has been fined a total of £3,100 and banned from driving for 16 months after pleading guilty to drinking and driving in the early hours of New Year's Day.
The Harlequins scrum-half was stopped by police at Winchester services on the M3 in Hampshire in the early hours of 1 January, the court heard.
The 25-year-old was excluded from the Six Nations squad after the incident.
Three weeks before, he was fined by police for being drunk and disorderly.
On New Year's Eve, hours before his arrest, Care tweeted: "2012 is hopefully going to be a massive year... Earn respect. Earn the shirt. Set the example."
Care pleaded guilty to the offence of driving with excess alcohol.
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Thai police find large cache of bomb-making materials
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Police in Thailand say they have found a large supply of materials for making bombs, following the detention of a suspect with alleged links to Hezbollah.
The suspect led police to a building containing more than 300 boxes of fertiliser and ammonium nitrate.
The raid follows the terror alert issued by the US and Israel warning citizens to avoid tourist sites.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that the situation was under control.
The suspect, who was detained last week, is said to be a Lebanese man with a Swedish passport.
Police say the man has links to Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shia Islamist movement backed by Syria and Iran that the US considers to be a terrorist organisation.
A second suspect is also believed to have left Thailand.
A police spokesman told local media that the chemicals were going to be shipped out of Thailand for use in an unspecified third country.
The US embassy still has not lifted the warning it issued on Friday stating that Americans should "exercise caution when visiting public areas where large groups of Western tourists gather".
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Associated Press news agency opens North Korea bureau
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The Associated Press news agency has formally opened a news bureau in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
It is the first major Western news organisation to do so, although agencies such as China's Xinhua also have a presence there.
AP president Tom Curley said the bureau would operate under the same standards as other bureaux worldwide.
All media outlets in North Korea are state-run. Most citizens have no access to the internet or foreign media.
Visits by most foreign journalists are severely restricted and, if granted a visa, reporters are accompanied by government minders to carefully selected locations.
AP said that the bureau would have two permanent North Korean reporters and would be supervised by two Seoul-based US journalists who would make regular visits.
The news agency first established a presence in Pyongyang in 2006, when it opened a video bureau.
The US and North Korea do not have formal diplomatic ties. But the president of state-run KCNA news agency, Kim Pyong-ho, said the two sides had "been able to find a way to understand one another and to cooperate closely enough to open an AP bureau".
The move comes a month after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. His third son, Kim Jong-un, has been installed as his successor.
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Las Vegas priest jailed for gambling with church funds
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A Roman Catholic priest from north-west Las Vegas has been sentenced to three years and one month in a US prison for using parish funds for gambling.
Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe was convicted of taking $650,000 (£424,000) away from his congregation to support his gambling habit.
Defence lawyers asked for probation so McAuliffe could keep practising as a priest and get addiction counselling.
But the judge added four months to the sentence that prosecutors pushed for.
Prosecutors argued McAuliffe was able to hide his activities because he was a signatory to the financial statements of the Las Vegas diocese and the archdiocese in San Francisco.
In his defence, his lawyer argued that McAuliffe had begun returning the money to his parish since May and had paid back $13,420 to date.
In October, McAuliffe pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud and falsifying documents sent to the archdiocese in 2008, 2009 and 2010. He was also removed from his Las Vegas parish and stripped of duties to the diocese.
Supporters sobbed in the courtroom as the judge told McAuliffe he had abused his position of trust within the church community.
McAuliffe offered a remorseful apology, the Associated Press reported, saying he felt "guilt, shame and self-loathing''.
He accepted his loss of authority within the Church and asked for leniency so he could make restitution.
He could have received up to 60 years in prison.
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Mexico City, Mexico: A police officer yawns during a parade organised by the ministry of public safety to promote good relations between the police and the public
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Allahabad, India: A boy dressed as the Hindu god Shiva attends the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela at the Sangam – the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers – where devotees take a bath to wash away their sins
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Jerusalem: Men attend a demonstration against the arrest of six ultra-Orthodox Jews suspected of tax evasion in the Meah Shearim neighbourhood
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Bucharest, Romania: Youths stand by a fire lit by protesters during a demonstration against the government's austerity programme and the Romanian president, Traian Basescu
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Blackpool, England: A maintenance engineer for the Blackpool Tower Ballroom polishes the dance floor during the annual cleanup of the ballroom
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Pravy, Russia: A man carries a barrel of snow. Villagers who are not connected to a fixed water supply system melt snow on the furnace of their wooden houses to get potable water for themselves and their domestic animals in winter
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Germany's former middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham (R) knocks down Argentina's Pablo Farias during their super-middleweight WBO continental fight in Offenburg January 14, 2012. Abraham won the fight after five rounds with knock out.
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A security official examines the body of a man who was killed after militants attacked a police station in Dera Ismail Khan January 14, 2012
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An anti-government protester wearing an abaya walks in front of riot police as she arrives to participate in an anti-government protest in Manama January 13, 2012.
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A man walks past the iconic pair of giant binoculars designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at an entrance of the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles, California January 13, 2012.
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A couple feeds their child while sitting on a dock in front of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island, January 15, 2012.
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Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during a ceremony to mark the religious ritual of Arbain, in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, India, January 15, 2012.
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Members of the International Indignados movement clash with Italian police outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome, January 14, 2012. The protesters, chanting slogans against the Vatican and Pope Benedict, tried to set up their tents inside the square, causing the clash with the police, according to local media.
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Antonio Carvalho of Canada fights with Felipe Arantes of Brazil (not pictured) during the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Rio, a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) competition, in Rio de Janeiro January 14, 2012.
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A woman holds a poster of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran on January 11, before his funeral after Friday prayers in Tehran January 13, 2012.
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Border guards leave their voting booths to cast their votes at a polling station during parliamentary elections in the village of Kordai, southwest of Almaty in southern Kazakhstan January 15, 2012.
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Netherland's Erik Kofman rides his KTM followed by South Africa's Giniel De Villiers and co-pilot Germany's Dirk Zitzewitz driving their Toyota during the 12th stage of the fourth South American edition of the Dakar Rally from Arequipa to Nasca, in Peru, January 13, 2012.
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Two wrestling camels fight at the Pamucak arena during the Selcuk-Efes Camel Wrestling Festival in the town of Selcuk, near the western Turkish coastal city of Izmir, January 15, 2012.
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Taiwan President and Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou celebrates after provisional election results of the Taiwan's 2012 presidential election are announced in Taipei January 14, 2012.
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Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot sweats while sitting in the courtroom during the reading of his verdict, in the Lurigancho prison in Lima, Peru, January 13, 2012.
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Anglers mark the opening of the salmon fishing season on the River Tay on Jan. 16, 2012 in Kenmore, Scotland. A procession with a pipe band and anglers made its way through Kenmore at the east end of Loch Tay to mark the start of the 2012 salmon season on the River Tay.
