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Rebels claim victory in Misrata - REBEL forces in Misrata last night claimed victory over Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's troops and said the city, which has been under attack for two months, was now "fre

Art institute has brush with law over missing paintings - IN JANUARY, French police investigators entered the regal Parisian building of an art research centre called the Wildenstein Institute and began sifting through a substantial

Amazon's dolphins harpooned for bait - ALONG the rivers of the Amazon rain forest, people still recount legends in which pink dolphins are magical creatures that can turn into men and impregnate women.

US fires first drone missile at Gaddaf i - THE United States launched its first Predator drone strike on Libya yesterday.

Syria: Mourners killed after 76 die in clashes - SYRIAN security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions, killing at least nine people as the mounting death toll prompted two Syrian politicia

Chinese puzzle over mystery of the missing statue of Confucius - THE MYSTERIOUS disappearance of a 31ft bronze statue of Confucius opposite Beijing's Tiananmen Square has sparked an online flurry of speculation by worried Chinese.

Ten soldiers dead as border clashes flare between Thailand and Cambodia - THAI and Cambodian troops fired shells and small arms across their countries' border yesterday, killing at least 10 soldiers as violence flared between the two Southeast

UN questions mystery votes in Haiti election - THE legitimacy of Haiti's election is in question after officials released results showing 18 legislative candidates suddenly received thousands of votes and were named

Lindsay Lohan on bail over probation violation - ACTRESS Lindsay Lohan has been released on bail from a Los Angeles County jail, just hours after she was sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation.

Woman rewarded for catching child - A BRITISH woman who caught a toddler who fell from a hotel balcony has been showered with rewards.

International briefs: Japan - THE Japanese government has proposed a special $50 billion budget to help finance reconstruction efforts and announced plans to build 100,000 temporary homes for the survivors

International briefs: Germany - A GERMAN privacy watchdog is demanding answers from Apple over whether its iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting data on users' locations.

International briefs: Philippines - PHILIPPINE rescuers, using just shovels and their bare hands, searched yesterday for survivors of a landslide that swept through a shanty town in a mining area on the southern

Afghans give rugby a try - and they're converted - THEIR mentoring normally involves passing on the skills and expertise needed to tackle insurgents and deal with improvised explosive devices.

Low-flying drones take off to target Gaddafi tanks amid stalemate fears - AMERICA's top military commander has warned that the war in Libya is quickly turning into a stalemate as attacks on Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's forces were stepped up

Good Friday Massacre stuns Syria - Syrian security forces fired live bullets and tear gas at pro- democracy demonstrations across the country yesterday, reportedly killing at least 72 people - one a young boy

Tension between US and Pakistan soars as drones kill 25 - AMERICAN drones fired a volley of missiles into a militant-held Pakistani region close to the Afghan border yesterday, killing 25 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said

Japan announces £29bn rebuilding plan - Japan's government proposed a special 4 trillion yen (£29.6 billion) budget to help finance reconstruction efforts yesterday and plans to build 100,000 temporary h

'Angel from heaven' - UK woman catches girl in 4-storey fall - A BRITISH holidaymaker who saved the life of a one-year-old girl was yesterday hailed as "an angel sent from heaven" after she caught the child as she fell from the t

Elephant on the menu for Zimbabwe's hungry cons - Cash-strapped prison chiefs in Zimbabwe have come up with an innovative plan to provide meat to thousands of hungry inmates - feed them elephants.

Rival crowds fill Yemen streets as president promises: 'We reject war' - Yemenis flooded the streets of Sanaa and Taiz yesterday in rival demonstrations for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who gave a guarded welcome to a Gulf Arab plan fo

Oman unrest moves up a gear after fiery sermon - Some 3,000 protesters took to the streets after worship yesterday in Oman's southern port of Salalah in one of the biggest pro-reform demonstrations since scattered unrest

Waleed Ibrahim: Threat to revive militia shows Iraq regime's fragility - Moqtada al-Sadr's threat to unleash his Mehdi Army could revive radical elements in Iraq and pit the once-feared militia against Iraqi and US troops.

World News: Obama condemns Syria's 'outrageous' use of force - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has accused Syria of using "outrageous" force against protesters and of seeking help from Iran to quell weeks of unrest.

Greenpeace activists hijack Scots oil rig bound for Greenland - GREENPEACE activists climbed aboard an oil rig off Turkey yesterday to prevent it leaving for Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic.

Libya: Rebels rejoice at seizing snipers' nest - Libyans who wanted to venture outside to celebrate rebel gains against Col Muammar al-Gaddafi's forces in Misrata were prevented from doing so by government snipers in a t

Pope stars in TV 'chat show' - POPE Benedict XVI took questions from a child in Japan, a Muslim woman in Ivory Coast and a mother caring for a son in a permanent coma, in his first televised dialogue with t

Football clubs seized in Mafia crackdown - Two Italian football clubs have been seized by police in part of a multi-million-pound crackdown on Mafia held assets.

Search after bodies found - Police in France are searching for a father-of-four after the body of his wife and those of his children were exhumed from a grave beneath the family home in Nantes.

Red Cross helps Roma villagers flee vigilantes - The Hungarian Red Cross evacuated hundreds of Roma women and children from their homes yesterday, due to fears over a far-right vigilante group setting up a training camp nea