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  • Nebraska mall killer had feelings of worthlessness

    An undated photograph of Robert Hawkins from a high school yearbook. US: A 19-year-old school dropout who shot and killed eight people and then himself at a Nebraska shopping mall smuggled a stolen assault rifle into the building wrapped in a sweatshirt and opened fire without warning when he got out of a third-floor elevator, police said yesterday. p

  • Woman killed in Paris parcel bomb attack

    FRANCE: A parcel bomb exploded yesterday in an law office in the building where President Nicolas Sarkozy used to work, killing a woman legal secretary and seriously wounding a lawyer. p

  • Romney seeks to assure conservative Republicans on his Mormon faith

    Republican candidate Mitt Romney: 'If I . . . become your president, I will serve no one religion' US: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has confronted misgivings among some conservatives about his Mormon faith, promising that his church would not influence the White House but insisting that his religion should not prevent him from becoming president. p
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  • Optimism at Bali that issues will be tackled

    INDONESIA: There is growing confidence that the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali will produce a mandate for tough talks next year aimed at agreeing a timetable for making deep cuts in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. p

  • Prosecutor accuses Sudan over attacks on Darfur aid workers

    SUDAN: An international criminal prosecutor has accused Sudan of violating a March 2005 UN Security Council resolution requiring it to co-operate with his investigation into war crimes in Darfur. p

  • Arab opinion welcomes Iran report

    MIDDLE EAST: Arab opinion seems to have been greatly relieved by the news that the US National Intelligence Estimate found that Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. p

  • Olympic organisers accused over evictions

    CHINA: As many as 1.5 million Beijing residents will be forced by the authorities from their homes in the run-up to the Olympic Games next year, according to the Swiss-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. p

  • China erects wall against Christmas Hollywood assault

    CHINA: A trade dispute seems likely to deprive audiences temporarily of their favourite American films, writes Clifford Coonan in Beijing p

  • Chávez insists he will enact reforms

    VENEZUELA: Just days after voters rejected proposals to massively increase his power, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, went back on the offensive, dismissing the opposition's victory in Sunday's referendum with insults and saying he would find other ways to enact the defeated reforms. p

  • Sarkozy broadcasts appeal to Farc to free Betancourt

    FRANCE: French president Nicolas Sarkozy broadcasted messages to the Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt and her captors in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) early yesterday. p

  • Bolivian leader calls for vote on mandate

    BOLIVIA: Facing a bitter political crisis over plans to rewrite Bolivia's constitution, President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum to determine whether he should remain president. p

  • Converted post office awash with Chanel

    BRITAIN: Karl Lagerfeld made a rare London appearance yesterday to present a Chanel fashion show outside the official catwalk calendar called "Paris Londres Maisons d'Art" to highlight the work of the seven Parisian couture artisan houses with which Chanel has collaborated for decades. p

  • Labour's 42-day terror initiative attacked

    BRITAIN: Opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats again appear ready to gamble on a confrontation with the Labour government over its plan to permit police to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge. p

  • Darwin family facing difficult reunion

    BRITAIN: The wife of missing John Darwin was flying back to Britain last night to face her two sons, who said they had been left "astonished" and angry that their mother had let them believe their father had died in a canoe accident when she knew he was alive. p

  • Yushchenko nominates Tymoshenko as new Ukrainian PM

    UKRAINE: Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko nominated Yulia Tymoshenko to be Ukraine's new prime minister yesterday, apparently sealing a reconciliation in their rocky relationship. p

  • German woman who killed children may not be charged

    GERMANY: A German woman who admitted killing her five young sons may never stand trial, police said yesterday, after psychologists declared her mentally unfit and of negligible criminal responsibility. p

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