An MP is freed in Zimbabwe after spending Christmas in jail for allegedly saying President Robert Mugabe had had gay sex, local media report.

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MP freed after ‘Mugabe gay’ jibe

At the Hono­lulu airport, federal officers who allegedly profiled Mexicans are known as “Mexicutioners.” At Newark Liberty International Airport, the profiling officers are called “Mexican hunters.” In both cases, according to local media reports, co-workers gave the nicknames to colleagues who targeted passengers as an easy way for Transportation Security Administration employees to drive up their productivity numbers. Read full article > >

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Lawmaker challenges TSA on claims of ethnic profiling

A 17-year-old Chinese boy has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPhone and iPad, according to local media reports.

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VIDEO: Chinese teen ‘sells kidney for iPad’

Pressure intensified on President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, as local media reported widespread labor unrest after protesters called for workers to go on strike.

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Protest in Egypt Takes a Turn as Workers Go on Strike

An Italian female tourist is abducted while travelling in the Algerian Sahara, local media and security sources say.

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Italian tourist seized in Algeria

Prague – Half of the Czech Republic’s population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned. The country has become one of the driest in the EU, according to local media, and climatologists say the land, and crucial underground water supplies, are drying up. read more

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Europe Begins to Run Short of Water

A new year show put on by a touring Russian circus in Belarus was so bad that police were called in, local media report.

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Send in the police… circus causes uproar

Eight US tourists die, and 21 are injured, when their tour bus hits a stationary lorry in southern Egypt, local media and police say.

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Egypt crash kills eight Americans

About 30 workers are missing after an explosion at a New Zealand coal mine, local media say.

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Miners missing after NZ explosion

Last week, award-winning author Arundhati Roy boldly stated that Kashmir is “not an integral part of India,” sparking a whirlwind of attention by local media and politicians who are asking for her arrest under charges of sedition. Shoma Chaudhury, the…

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Arundhati Roy Under Fire

Iran’s president warns that his country won’t yield any of its international rights to peaceful nuclear energy, local media report. Talks have been stalled for more than a year.

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Ahmadinejad: Iran ready for nuclear talks

A massive traffic jam in China stretching for 100km slows vehicles to a crawl for a ninth day near Beijing, local media say.

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Are we there yet? China traffic jam ‘into ninth day’

A woman has been killed in a shoot-out after a group of armed men entered a tourist hotel in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, local media report.

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‘One dead in Brazil hotel clash’

A bull leapt out of a bullfighting arena in Spain and rampaged through the crowd, injuring at least 30 people, local media reported.

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Raging bull leaps into crowd at arena

Police in Mexico find the body of the kidnapped mayor of the northern city of Santiago three days after he was seized, local media say.

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Abducted Mexican mayor found dead