World

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  Man in custody battle accuses ex-wife of knowing 2,000 men

  A Kuwaiti man locked in a tough legal battle to take custody of his three little sons supported his fight with

• Tibetan said to self-immolate in anti-China protest

  An 18-year-old nun at a Tibetan Buddhist convent set herself on fire in southwest China to protest Chinese rule over

• Turkmenistan to re-elect strongman president

  Turkmenistan on Sunday voted in presidential elections expected to see President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov cruise to a

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  I was made pregnant by your son: maid

  Like in drama movies, a Kuwaiti man rushed his Asian housemaid to hospital after she collapsed of exhaustion. There, he

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  Music world mourn Whitney Houston

  The music industry saddened by the news of her demise

• Mexican villagers kill three alleged kidnappers

  An angry mob of villagers in central Mexico attacked and killed three men Friday they accused of trying to kidnap a

• Ex-Maldives president rejects US compromise call

  Ousted Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on Sunday rejected a US call to compromise and dismissed proposals for a

• London metal thieves target works of art

  Gangs of metal thieves are targeting London's sculptures, statues and even war memorials, stripping them from their

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  Emma Watson dares to bare

  Preparations for the biggest night in UK film, the Bafta Awards ceremony, have being finalised. The event is the

• Maine win boosts Romney's presidential bid

  Mitt Romney got a sorely needed boost in the rocky race for the Republican presidential nomination Saturday, winning a

• Myanmar MPs tackle first budget in decades

  Myanmar's fledgling parliament is slaving over its first budget, a daunting task for the inexperienced body in a

• McCartney voicemail was hacked, ex-wife tells inquiry

  The former wife of Paul McCartney told a British inquiry on Thursday that voicemail messages from the Beatles singer

• Murdoch son becomes chair of Australia's Ten Network

  Rupert Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan was Friday appointed chairman of commercial broadcaster Network Ten as it looks to

• Qaeda-linked Patek to stand trial in Indonesia

  A key militant arrested in the same Pakistani town where US commandos later killed Osama bin Laden goes on trial in

• Sudan says 'heavy' rebel losses in Blue Nile

  Two days of fresh fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile state have left "heavy losses" among rebel troops, the army said on

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  Girl fights off kidnapper at Walmart

  A 7-year-old girl remembered her stranger danger training and was able to get away from a man who tried to abduct her

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  Bizarre: Man gives birth to baby

  He underwent sex change but still wanted to give birth

• Pressure builds for probe into Maldives' crisis

  New Maldives President Mohamed Waheed Hussain Manik said on Saturday he was open to an inquiry into how he took office

• US gambles on special forces in Afghan strategy

  As it draws down troops in Afghanistan, the United States plans to rely heavily on its special forces, gambling the

• Turkmen president set for ceremonial poll victory

  The isolated but energy-rich Central Asian state of Turkmenistan is set Sunday to hand Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov a new