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13 Mar 10 | COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will begin court-martial proceedings next week against its former army chief and defeated presidential candidate on seven charges including engaging in politics while in uniform, a military spokesman said.
13 Mar 10 | LUANG PRABANG: More than a 10th of the Buddha statues in Luang Prabang, an ancient city in north-central Laos whose urban district is a World Heritage Site, have gone missing in the past few years.
13 Mar 10 | Traditional fishermen are appealing for government intervention as the number of fish dramatically shrinks, writes Justin Norrie in Tokyo.
13 Mar 10 | JACKSON, Mississippi: Constance McMillen did not believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
13 Mar 10 | A poor man, lured to Delhi with the promise of a job, is still suffering as the victim of an organ transplant racket, writes Matt Wade.
13 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: Hambali, the alleged Bali bomb mastermind who is suspected of links to al-Qaeda, has filed a petition seeking his release from Guantanamo Bay, where he has been held for more than three years.
13 Mar 10 | The shell of a landmark that was a refuge during decades of cruelty is at the centre of its own drama, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.
13 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: A growing number of Taliban militants in the Pakistani border region are refusing to collaborate with al-Qaeda fighters, declining to provide shelter or assist in attacks in Afghanistan even in return for payment, to US military and counterterrorism officials say.
13 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: Barack Obama has designated 10 charities to receive portions of his 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) Nobel peace prize award, the White House announced.
13 Mar 10 | PARIS: A retired market fruit seller from Burgundy has claimed ownership of the illustrious Le Fouquet's restaurant in Paris, after discovering that her great-uncle was promised it in the will of a 19th-century countess.
13 Mar 10 | LONDON: It is a grainy, video image few will ever forget: a trusting toddler walking hand-in-hand with the 10-year-old who would later torture him and beat him to death with a rock.
13 Mar 10 | LONDON: The Archbishop of Vienna has acknowledged that priestly celibacy could be one of the causes of the sex abuse scandals to hit the Catholic Church.
13 Mar 10 | A luxury resort run by an American surfer may be an unlikely saviour of the idyllic life on Sumba, writes Tom Allard.
13 Mar 10 | LONDON: A Briton held hostage in Iraq for more than 2.5 years has revealed harrowing details of the torture meted out to him by his captors. In interviews two months after his release, Peter Moore told how he was subject to mock executions and hung from a door by his arms as a punishment.
13 Mar 10 | BAGHDAD: Iraq's tight election race hung in the balance yesterday as early counting gave the edge to the ruling coalition of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, amid allegations of widespread vote tampering.
13 Mar 10 | SAMARRA: Just to be able to get in a car and drive to the ancient city of Samarra, 125 kilometres north of Baghdad, is a sign of how far things have progressed in war-ravaged Iraq.
13 Mar 10 | The disappointment of Copenhagen, the stalling of the emissions trading scheme and the revival of the climate sceptics may have led to some fatigue with the Earth Hour campaign this year, but in reality the reverse is the case: more than 100 countries have already signed up to participate.
13 Mar 10 | Andian Lannga was just a year old, asleep, when his life changed forever. His mother, Yuliana, had left him to doze in their wooden and bamboo home while she went to the well to fetch water to prepare the evening meal.
13 Mar 10 | A leading member of the conservation group Sea Shepherd, who was detained aboard a whaling vessel for nearly a month, was met by a crowd of police, coastguards and protesters as he arrived on the Japanese mainland.
13 Mar 10 | LONDON: The former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday threw her weight behind a campaign to help ex-servicemen suffering from mental health problems after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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