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3:00 AM AEST | NEW YORK: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the all-clear to a clinical trial of embryonic stem cells as a treatment for spinal-cord injury.
3:00 AM AEST | MOSCOW: Forest fires in Russia's worst heatwave in decades have killed 29 people and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has visited one of the worst-hit areas to reassure angry residents.
3:00 AM AEST | RHINEBECK, New York: Chelsea Clinton was poised to marry her long-time boyfriend at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River after weeks of intrigue, secrecy and buzz that caused hundreds to crowd into this small village hoping to catch a glimpse of a former president, a secretary of state or their publicity-shy daughter.
3:00 AM AEST | KARACHI: The death toll from flash floods in Pakistan's north-west has exceeded 800 and may climb further as thousands remain stranded in the region's worst storms.
12:11 AM AEST | Thousands of firefighters, including army troops, battled hundreds of forest fires that raged across central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades, destroying houses and killing more than 30 people.
12:11 AM AEST | Thousands of people paid their respects on Saturday in the German city of Duisburg to the 21 people who died in the Love Parade tragedy a week earlier.
12:11 AM AEST | Another protester was killed on Saturday in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir when security forces opened fire at demonstrators, bringing to five the number killed in two days.
12:11 AM AEST | One of Britain's most notorious murderers is suing prison authorities for failing to protect him after his throat was slashed by another inmate.
31 Jul 10 | THE United Nations has withdrawn the Galapagos Islands from its World Heritage danger list, citing improved efforts by Ecuador to protect the archipelago's biodiversity.
31 Jul 10 | WASHINGTON: Was Tony Hayward right after all?
31 Jul 10 | CANBERRA: The Pakistani high commissioner to Australia has denied claims that her country's intelligence agency is supporting the Afghan Taliban.
31 Jul 10 | APART from the outcome, nothing is as it seems with Pakistan. And sadly, the outcome is not a lot - even after Washington has thrown billions of dollars its way.
31 Jul 10 | MOSCOW: Russians can be issued official warnings about crimes they have not yet committed under new powers granted to the security services.
31 Jul 10 | LILLE: The French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved that her secret is finally out in the open, her lawyer said in a case that has shocked the country.
31 Jul 10 | ROME: Silvio Berlusconi's government is in danger of collapse, with open warfare breaking out between the Italian Prime Minister and his most senior party colleague.
31 Jul 10 | AN AUSTRALIAN man has given police evidence that disproves Charles Sobhraj's claim that he was not in Nepal in December 1975 when he is alleged to have killed a young American tourist.
31 Jul 10 | A notorious French murderer has escaped convictions in three countries but this time he was not so fortunate, write Steve Tickner, in Nepal, and Lindsay Murdoch.
31 Jul 10 | LONDON: Rocks have been identified on Mars that may contain evidence of life, researchers say.
31 Jul 10 | PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has said South Africa will stop recognising half its ''traditional'' kings and queens, dismissing them as artificial creations of the apartheid regime.
31 Jul 10 | GAZA CITY: At 2am on July 16 last year, Mohammed Warshara was woken by a phone call from Hamas, the militant Islamic resistance movement that controls the Gaza Strip.
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