Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman is going to announce he is ending his campaign for his party’s nomination, media reports say.
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Republican Huntsman ‘set to quit’
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who became the Czech Republic’s first post-communist president, dies at the age of 75, Czech media reports say.
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Czech statesman Havel ‘is dead’
“There are no words to match this moment,” Oprah said Wednesday as she brought down the curtain on her syndicated daytime talk show, while all around her, media reports rained down about The End of the Oprah Winfrey Era. “Today, there will be no guest,” Oprah told Wednesday’s gaily dressed studio-audience members, who’d been instructed to wear bright colors, according to news reports. “This last hour is about me saying thank you. It is my love letter to you. I want to leave you all with the lessons that have been the anchor for my life and the ones that I hold most precious,” she said in the finale of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” dressed in an elegant peach sheath, diamonds bobbing brilliantly off her wrist and ears. Read full article > >
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Oprah Winfrey signs off after 25 years in daytime talk TV
Egypt’s authorities order a 15-day detention of ousted President Hosni Mubarak on charges of profiteering, media reports say.
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Egypt extends Mubarak’s detention
Pakistan has asked the US to reduce the number of CIA agents in the country and to limit drone strikes along the Afghan border, US media reports say.
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Pakistan ‘seeks cut in CIA staff’
Pirates have hijacked a sailing boat in the Indian Ocean seizing seven Danish people – including three children, Danish media reports say.
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Pirates ‘seize Danish children’
A Dutch cardinal is accused of protecting a priest who sexually abused children – and who went on to reoffend, Dutch media reports say.
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Dutch cardinal ‘protected abuser’
Prosecutors allege that a second 17-year-old girl attended sex parties held at Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s villas, Italian media reports say.
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‘Second minor’ in Berlusconi case
Exasperated air passengers stranded after freezing rain disrupted flights have staged protests at at least one Moscow airport, media reports say.
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Moscow airport ice chaos protest
At least 20 people have been injured by an explosion in the Indian holy city of Varanasi, Indian media reports say.
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India holy city blast ‘hurts 20′
Egypt’s banned opposition movement the Muslim Brotherhood is withdrawing candidates from Sunday’s election run-off, media reports say.
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Egypt party ‘quitting election’
Russian journalist Anatoliy Adamchuk is brutally beaten, according to Russian media reports, in the second such attack in days.
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Second Russian reporter attacked
The most senior official ever to defect from North Korea, Hwang Jang-yop, is found dead at his home in South Korea, media reports say.
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Leading N Korea defector ‘dies’
