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Canadians 'bullying the bullies' in teenager girl's suicide A backlash over alleged cyberbullying that pushed a Canadian girl to suicide has cost a man his job, and is hampering a federal police investigation.

19 October 2012

Ex-rebels attack Libya's Bani Walid, 11 killed: local sources At least eleven Libyans were killed and scores wounded in clashes on Wednesday when ex-rebels linked to the army attacked Bani Walid, a former bastion of dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

19 October 2012

Aussie sailor tells of monster wave that rolled yacht An Australian yachtsman was reunited with his family Thursday following a dramatic rescue after a massive wave picked up his boat and rolled it over, hundreds of kilometres off the coast.

18 October 2012

Fear of famine stalks Sudan's South Kordofan Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan's conflict-torn state of South Kordofan are on the brink of famine as Khartoum keeps up a blockade on aid agencies.

18 October 2012

Cuba eases despised foreign travel restrictions Cubans will no longer need an exit permit to travel abroad from January, the communist regime said on Tuesday, in a major overhaul of a half-century-old policy despised by the island's citizens.

17 October 2012

Brazil eyeing public service quotas for blacks President Dilma Rousseff wants to introduce public service quotas for black Brazilians as a way to repay a historic debt for centuries of slavery and discrimination.

17 October 2012

Kids quiz White House hopefuls, but Romney's a no-show President Barack Obama wooed Americans not yet old enough to vote Monday in a unique children's television news special that his rival Mitt Romney opted to avoid.

16 October 2012

Haiti protesters call for president's resignation Several hundred protesters angry over rising costs of living called Sunday for Haitian President Martin Martelly to resign at a march in the country's capital.

16 October 2012

Almaty got a just married installation An installation for newlyweds has been placed on the Republic Square in Almaty; the opening ceremony was held in Almaly shopping mall.

15 October 2012

Australia defends refugee policy after boat surge Canberra insisted on Monday that a new deterrent policy of locking up refugees on remote Pacific islands was working despite a weekend surge in arrivals and self-harm attempts among detainees.

15 October 2012

Ten years on, Bali remembers bomb dead Hundreds of survivors and relatives of the dead on Friday paid tearful tributes to the 202 people killed in the Bali bombings 10 years ago, when Islamist extremists unleashed terror on partying tourists.

13 October 2012

Unemployment 30 mn higher than before crisis: ILO There are now 30 million more people without jobs around the world than before the global financial crisis began, the head of the International Labour Organization said.

12 October 2012

UN report warns of possible rise in child marriages The number of girls who marry before their 18th birthday could increase dramatically over the next two decades, a new UN report warned Thursday.

12 October 2012

Three-quarters of African countries face food insecurity: report Three-quarters of African countries and several "Arab Spring" nations are at high or extreme risk of a food crisis, according to an analysis published on Wednesday.

11 October 2012

Syrian rebel strongholds pounded, 23 killed: watchdog A string of rebel strongholds, including in Daraa and Homs provinces and the commercial capital Aleppo, were rocked by shelling and clashes from dawn on Monday that left at least 23 people dead.

09 October 2012

A gender-neutral pronoun makes waves in Sweden Sweden's tradition of gender equality has famously put more mums in the workplace while rising numbers of dads stay at home.

08 October 2012

Contaminated drug linked to deadly US meningitis outbreak A contaminated drug has been linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis that has claimed the lives of at least five people and sickened 42 others in seven US states.

07 October 2012

Tresses to treasure for Vietnamese hair trader Hailed as a hero in his native Vietnamese village, Do Van Thu has become rich and transformed the lives of hundreds of families through the sale of a precious and unorthodox crop -- hair.

06 October 2012

All 18 children dead in China landslide: state media All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died.

06 October 2012

Battling time and protests, Putin turns 60 Russian President Vladimir Putin hits retirement age on Sunday but he appears determined to prove that 60 is the new 40.

04 October 2012

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