
LONDON (AFP) - Rescuers were working on Friday to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding across parts of the country, police said.

MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines rolled out the red carpet in a rock star reception on Friday for pound-for-pound king and newly crowned World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli army has warned a group of rabbis that political protests by their students while serving in the military would not be tolerated, the army said on Wednesday.

MELBOURNE (AFP) - A Bangladeshi girl separated from her conjoined twin has woken up and looks "fantastic", just two days after the marathon and high-risk operation, hospital officials said on Thursday.

MUMBAI (AFP) - No one would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing motorists.
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed and a government minister wounded in clashes in south Sudan, which is preparing for a referendum on whether to split off as an independent state.

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Bedouin in north Sinai on Friday after the arrest of fellow tribesmen prompted clashes, a security official told AFP.

KABUL (AFP) - Poverty and corruption are driving the war in Afghanistan, says a survey released Wednesday by British charity Oxfam and local organisations on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration.

BERLIN (AFP) - Around 200 football matches in nine European countries including at least three Champions League games this season are implicated in a new match-fixing scandal, German prosecutors said on Friday.
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