South Africa: Women Drinking To Harm Babies

By Alex Crawford in Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape Mothers in one of South Africa's poorest areas are drinking heavily to deliberately damage their unborn babies - just so they can claim disability benefit. Life is so tough...

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Venezuela VP Attacks 'Chavez Health Lies'

Chavez Illness Leaves Power Vacuum Updated: 2:55am UK, Saturday 05 January 2013 By Lisa Holland, Foreign Affairs Correspondent It seems almost certain that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will not be well enough to attend his own inauguration...

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Honduras: Ambassador Quits Over Wild Party

Honduras has axed an ambassador amid reports his personal aide held a wild party - attended by prostitutes - at the embassy. Ambassador to Colombia, Carlos Rodriguez, quit his post after the government requested his withdrawal, the Honduras foreign...

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iPhone Thief Caught In Dating Sting

A New York musician who had his iPhone stolen on New Year's Eve created a fake dating profile and arranged a romantic rendezvous with the thief. Trombonist Nadav Nirenberg, 27, accidentally left his phone in the back of a taxi while on his way to a...

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Bashar al Assad's Speech Changes Nothing

He has been seen but barely heard since June last year, but in a highly choreographed speech to an audience of the faithful, Bashar al Assad addressed the nation from an opera house in Damascus. The raucous crowd regularly interrupted the president's...

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Pakistan: Drone Strikes Kill Taliban Militants

By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent US drone strikes have killed ten suspected Taliban militants in North West Pakistan according to security officials in the country. Reports say that several missiles were fired into three hideouts close...

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Australia Bushfires: Fears For The Missing

Several people are feared dead and hundreds more have been left homeless as bushfires continue to burn in southern Australia. Specialist rescue teams are moving from home to home searching for the missing in the island state of Tasmania. Thousands...

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Missoni Fashion House Boss Missing

Rescue crews are using boats and aircraft to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the boss of Italy's iconic Missoni fashion house. The BN-2 Islander aircraft disappeared from radar screens on its short flight from the Venezuelan...

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Gerard Depardieu Receives Russian Passport

The French actor Gerard Depardieu has received his passport after being granted Russian citizenship, saying he was leaving France to avoid proposed tax increases. "There was a short meeting and Depardieu was handed his passport," Putin's spokesman Dmitry...

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Syrian President Assad Gives Live TV Address

Syria's president has blamed Islamic extremists and "outside forces" for orchestrating the conflict in his country in a rare public address to the nation. The embattled leader, who appeared before cheering crowds at an opera house in the capital Damascus,...

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