Issue: July 30, 2010   (Archive)
Tuesday, September 7, 2010   

Mother admits killing 8 babies
A French mother admitted killing eight newborn babies, investigators said yesterday, as a shocked nation struggled to digest the latest grisly tragedy of village life.


`Moon' rust bucket bus stuns cops
Berlin police said they impounded a clapped-out Latvian tour bus with 1.8 million kilometers behind it - enough to go to the moon and back twice, and then back to the Baltic state.

Obese? No, you're simply fat
Calling people fat rather than obese could motivate them to lose weight, the British public health minister says.

Logging giant cut again by Greenpeace
Greenpeace made fresh allegations that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are logging in high conservation-value forests, including habitats of endangered orangutans.

Cameron `terror' hit riles Pakistan
British Prime Minister David Cameron is mired in a diplomatic row with Islamabad over comments made on a trade-driven trip to India about the "export of terror" from Pakistan.

             


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