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Smith ruled out of third England cricket ODI (AFP)
AFP - South Africa captain Graeme Smith will miss Friday's third one-day international against England as he struggles to recover from a tennis elbow injury.
Pentagon brass meet with Pakistanis on carrier (AP)
AP - With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers secretly met commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft carrier in the Indian ...Harmison denies money motivated his one-day return (AFP)
AFP - Steve Harmison has hit back at accusations that he only returned to England's one-day team to cash in on the huge sums of ...Nepal police arrest 120 Tibetan protesters (AFP)
AFP - About 120 Tibetan exiles were arrested Thursday in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu as they attempted to protest in front of a Chinese embassy ...Top Iraqi official detained at Baghdad airport (AP)
AP - American forces arrested a top Iraqi Shiite government official as he stepped off a plane at Baghdad's airport, a political ally said Thursday. ...Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan (AP)
AP - The start of the holy month of Ramadan next week is causing clock confusion in the Middle East. Egypt and the Palestinians are ...Mugabe defies opposition over government plans (AFP)
AFP - President Robert Mugabe's regime insisted Thursday it will form a new government alone as an outraged opposition planned to petition mediator Thabo Mbeki ...Dalai Lama admitted to hospital with "discomfort" (Reuters)
Reuters - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, has been admitted to a hospital in India with "abdominal discomfort" but there was no ...Italian museum defies pope over crucified frog (Reuters)
Reuters - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug ...Judge orders English ballot printed in Puerto Rico (AP)
AP - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections. ...Log in
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