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29 Jul 10 | Rome's Colosseum needs a facelift, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to raise 25 million euros (32 million dollars) to restore the crumbling symbol of the Italian capital.
29 Jul 10 | Wikileaks' editor-in-chief claims his organisation doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.
29 Jul 10 | R&B star Ne-Yo believes Lindsay Lohan's jail ordeal is a wake-up call to celebrities who think they can ride above the law.
29 Jul 10 | Schapelle Corby has reportedly received her strongest support yet to drastically cut her 20-year jail term for drug smuggling.
29 Jul 10 | A five-year-old Irish boy who was wrongly accused of stealing a bag of chips has won a €7500 ($11,000) pay-out from a supermarket chain, his lawyer said.
29 Jul 10 | California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal state of emergency, requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month until a new budget is enacted.
29 Jul 10 | France vowed on Wednesday to tear down illegal Gypsy camps and expel Gypsies from other EU states who break the law, after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the minority posed security "problems."
29 Jul 10 | German state authorities on Wednesday accused the organiser of last weekend's Love Parade techno festival of major security breaches which may have led to the crush that killed 21 people and injured more than 500.
29 Jul 10 | A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said on Wednesday.
29 Jul 10 | French police detained a couple after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in a house and in the garden of another home in a northern village, officials said.
29 Jul 10 | KUALA LUMPUR: In a sensational twist in the sodomy trial of the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a prosecutor has been dropped after being accused of having an affair with the star witness.
29 Jul 10 | A LANDSLIDE sweeps aside buildings in the village of Wangong in Hanyuan county of the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. About 4000 villagers were evacuated and 21 people were missing.
29 Jul 10 | SHANGHAI: The head of China's domestic news service has disappeared during a trip to Britain amid speculation he has defected.
29 Jul 10 | HE CAN rap, sing, play the drums, piano and guitar, win Grammys and sell millions of records, but has Wyclef Jean the ability to bring harmony to a shattered nation?
29 Jul 10 | JERUSALEM: Hamas has lifted a ban on women smoking water pipes in public in Gaza only three weeks after first issuing the edict.
29 Jul 10 | Catalonia's parliament has voted to ban bullfighting in the first such prohibition in mainland Spain.
29 Jul 10 | TOKYO: Japan's Justice Minister, a foe of capital punishment, has announced a review of the death penalty after witnessing the first executions since her centre-left government took power in 2009.
29 Jul 10 | Oil from the BP blowout is degrading rapidly in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and becoming increasingly difficult to find on the water surface.
29 Jul 10 | FRESNO, California: Old glass negatives bought by a painter for $US45 at a garage sale a decade ago have been authenticated as the work of the photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $US200 million ($223 million), the owner's lawyer says.
29 Jul 10 | PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of stigmatising some of France's most marginalised people with a meeting at the Elysee Palace to discuss tough new strategies for dealing with the traveller, Gypsy and Roma populations.
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