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4:00 AM AEDT | HADRIAN'S WALL, NORTHUMBERLAND: When the first pinpoint of light shimmered red on the peak of a faraway cliff, it elicited a primal, appreciative roar from the crowds in fields below.
4:00 AM AEDT | LONDON: Labour Party ministers will unveil plans to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a 300-member, wholly elected second chamber in a key political move before the general election.
4:00 AM AEDT | ATLANTA: Doctors have found a relation between sharemarket fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Centre says.
4:00 AM AEDT | WASHINGTON: Beginning as a spat over a housing project, a dispute between the Obama administration and Israel last week has ballooned into the biggest US-Israeli clash in 20 years, adding to months of strain between the US and one of its closest allies.
4:00 AM AEDT | WASHINGTON: More than a year of high ambition and political wrangling have come down to a make-or-break week for Barack Obama and US Democrats seeking to clinch a historic revamp of America's healthcare system.
4:00 AM AEDT | WASHINGTON: Federal officials have confirmed that a second American woman has been caught up in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who angered the Muslim world with a derogatory drawing of the prophet Muhammad.
4:00 AM AEDT | BANGKOK: Key parts of Bangkok have been paralysed as tens of thousands of anti-government ''red-shirt'' protesters shut down roads. The government was considering declaring a state of emergency and handing control of the city to the army.
4:00 AM AEDT | GREECE initially sent a distress call to its wealthier expatriates, but has now extended the appeal to all Hellenes who might have some spare change.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE US President, Barack Obama, will press ahead with his Australian visit but has delayed it to push healthcare reforms through Congress.
4:00 AM AEDT | SHAUN QUINCEY has become the first person to row solo across the Tasman from Australia to New Zealand.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE book of Genesis says God created the heavens and Earth in less than a week. Now, Catholic clergy are being asked to follow suit and keep their sermons to under eight minutes in a recommendation issued from the Vatican.
14 Mar 10 | TENS of thousands of supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra streamed through military checkpoints outside the capital yesterday as they headed to a rally aimed at toppling the government.
14 Mar 10 | THE Queen's gaffe-prone husband has proved that, at 88, he is as undiplomatic as ever by asking a young sea cadet if she worked in a strip club.
14 Mar 10 | THE vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special US court has ruled in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.
14 Mar 10 | AT LEAST 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley yesterday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore.
14 Mar 10 | THE ambulance crew that rushed to Tiger Woods's home after he crashed his car into a tree would not allow his wife to travel with him to hospital, suspecting domestic violence, new documents show.
14 Mar 10 | A MAN fathered six children with his own daughters to create a "pure" bloodline that would survive doomsday, a court has heard.
14 Mar 10 | As rumours of the Sarkozys' affairs abound, Cassandra Jardine ponders the French approach to infidelity.
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.
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