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8:50 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: American religious leaders have condemned the plans of a small evangelical Christian church in Florida to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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7:07 AM AEST | The Iranian woman facing death by stoning has expressed surprise over reports that she was lashed after a British newspaper published a picture showing her without a headscarf, a judiciary official who says he met her told Fars news agency on Wednesday.
7:06 AM AEST | The planned mass burning of copies of the Koran in the US state of Florida has drawn worldwide condemnation, with the Vatican saying it would be "an outrageous and grave gesture".
6:57 AM AEST | Failures by BP and other companies led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, the British energy group concluded on Wednesday as it sought to defend itself against possible multi-billion-dollar US lawsuits.
5:59 AM AEST | British Prime Minister David Cameron's father died in France on Wednesday after suffering a stroke while on vacation, the leader's office said.
5:26 AM AEST | RAMALLAH: It has had the uncommon effect of uniting political rivals Hamas and Fatah - in anger. But the bite-sized nightly satirical sketches of Watan ala Watar have become a Ramadan sensation, cheering thousands of Palestinian television viewers through the holy month.
3:00 AM AEST | TEHRAN: The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified as a top European Union official called it ''barbaric'' and an Iranian spokesman said it's about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue.
3:00 AM AEST | PARIS: The placard, held by an older worker, said it all: ''Work can provoke a slow and tortuous death''. Indeed, if the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, harboured any notion that his citizens confine their idea of hard work to the republic's factories or classrooms, scenes at Place de la Republique and La Bastille this week should banish them forever.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: American religious leaders have condemned the plans of a small evangelical Christian church in Florida to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: A British parliamentary committee has announced an inquiry into the unauthorised tapping of mobile phones that threatens to embroil the office of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, a day after police said they would examine new evidence it was done by journalists at the News of the World.
3:00 AM AEST | JAKARTA: The annual exodus of Indonesians back to their villages has brought chaos on the country's dilapidated roads, with motorists complaining of interminable delays and reports of traffic snarls stretching for dozens of kilometres.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohammed ElBaradei has called for a boycott of scheduled parliamentary elections in November as part of a sustained campaign for political reform.
3:00 AM AEST | DUBAI: The brother of the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, made nearly $1 million on a Dubai property deal financed with money from the Kabul Bank, according to a person familiar with the transaction and a property sales registry.
3:00 AM AEST | DARWIN: A bitter row over allegations of corruption has destabilised East Timor's ruling four-party coalition, leading to the resignation yesterday of a deputy prime minister appointed early last year to crack down on ministerial corruption.
3:00 AM AEST | Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says the church must abandon canon law, writes Paola Totaro.
3:00 AM AEST | A GROUP of Australian soldiers implicated in the deaths of five Afghan children will face manslaughter and negligence charges over the bungled raid.
3:00 AM AEST | NEARING the end of a 7300-kilometre journey, 34 Australian and American firefighters have pounded the hot pavement into the US capital on their way to New York and the commemoration of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Saturday.
08 Sep 10 | LOST at sea, Benedict Jor survived on coconuts and rainwater for three weeks before his tiny fishing craft was seen drifting in the Saint Andrew Strait off the Papua New Guinea coast.
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08 Sep 10 | The state of emergency in earthquake-stricken Christchurch has been extended for a further seven days after a violent aftershock this morning.
08 Sep 10 | The state of emergency in earthquake-stricken Christchurch has been extended for a further seven days after a violent aftershock this morning.
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