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18 Aug 10 | The Irish teenager who took her own life after allegedly being bullied by students at a US high school was a bully herself when she was in Ireland, a report by a US website claims.
18 Aug 10 | Three crew are confirmed dead after the fishing boat, Oyang 70, sank off the east coast of New Zealand early this morning, with three still missing in the chilly Southern Ocean.
18 Aug 10 | A Mexican drug gang is hiring pretty young women to carry out killings to surprise its enemies, a suspected member of the vicious La Linea gang said in a video.
18 Aug 10 | The devastating tsunami which killed nearly 200 people in Samoa and Tonga last September was the result of a rare double earthquake and not one as previously believed, scientists say.
18 Aug 10 | A man carrying a knife and a toy gun broke into the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and attempted to take a diplomat hostage before being overpowered by security, Turkish officials said.
18 Aug 10 | A gunman with an assault rifle has been shot dead outside police headquarters in McKinney, Texas, after spraying the building with bullets.
18 Aug 10 | Pakistan's UN envoy in Geneva says that reconstruction in northern areas alone could cost $US2.5 billion ($2.8 billion), after floods stretching to the south ravaged an area "the size of England."
18 Aug 10 | Bomber sat for hours among hundreds of army applicants before detonating nail-packed explosives strapped to his body, killing up to 61.
18 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: China is quickly modernising its military and is set on extending its influence deep into the Pacific and Indian oceans now that the military balance with its nemesis, Taiwan, is tilting in its favour, the US Defence Department reports.
18 Aug 10 | LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Times will publish a database of more than 6000 primary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students' scores on standardised tests, the first time such information will be public.
18 Aug 10 | SAN FRANCISCO: California's same-sex weddings have been called off again - at least until next year. A US federal appeals court has put gay marriage in the state on hold indefinitely, interrupting the wedding plans of scores of couples who were preparing to exchange vows when a temporary hold was set to expire today.
18 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: Fallout from the US President, Barack Obama's, intervention in the controversy surrounding plans for a mosque near Ground Zero in New York has enveloped Democrats before November's mid-term elections.
18 Aug 10 | A $90 million Defence Force contracting scandal has taken a new twist, with the revelation a Brisbane aviation firm and a consultant at the centre of a Defence Department inquiry worked together to win an air charter contract from the Danish military.
18 Aug 10 | Critics are sceptical of Blair's gift of his book earnings, writes Paola Totaro in London.
18 Aug 10 | Nearly 1 million American children may have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, not because they have real behaviour problems but because they were the youngest in their kindergarten, researchers say.
18 Aug 10 | Soldiers in Afghanistan have complained their government-issued equipment is failing them during firefights with the Taliban and putting them at risk of injury or death, according to leaked Defence documents.
18 Aug 10 | JERUSALEM: A former Israeli soldier who posted on Facebook controversial photographs of herself posing with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners has said she did nothing wrong.
18 Aug 10 | The convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby could be out of jail in just over four years with good behaviour as she enters an accelerated remission program.
18 Aug 10 | The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has paid tribute to Vinicius de Moraes in a ceremony commemorating his decision to posthumously promote to ambassador the lyricist behind the classic song The Girl from Ipanema.
17 Aug 10 | A German pop star broke down in tears when she admitted keeping her HIV positive status a secret from three lovers, as she went on trial for causing grievous bodily harm.
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