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Kidnapped a block from home. Eleven years Ariel Castro's captive. How Michelle Knight survived

Posted: 10 May 2014 12:59 AM PDT

Michelle Knight likes to sing, box and sleep with the curtains open all things she was unable to do for the 11 years she was Ariel Castro's prisoner. On the anniversary of her escape, she talks exclusively to Simon Hattenstone

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Younger disability pension recipients' capacity to work to be scrutinised

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:53 PM PDT

Budget measure to cut welfare spending could affect 30,000 people under 35

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Perth airport to Fremantle port link obscene waste of money, say critics

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:24 PM PDT

Federal government to give $925m towards controversial freight toll road in Western Australia

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Michelle Obama to give weekly radio address on Nigerian girls

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:47 PM PDT

First lady will take over from her husband to draw attention to kidnappings ahead of mother's day in the US

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South Sudan signs ceasefire with rebels

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:04 PM PDT

Agreement signed in Ethiopia ends months-long ethnic conflict in world's youngest country

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Indonesian ambassador prepares to return to Canberra

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:11 PM PDT

Envoy was recalled in November when President Yudhoyono learned that Australia had tapped his phone

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Iranian man challenges legality of detention on Manus Island

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:51 PM PDT

Australia exceeds its constitutional powers in sending asylum seekers offshore to PNG for processing, lawyers argue

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Beef baron dies from injuries suffered in campdrafting accident

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:22 PM PDT

Graeme Acton, 63, owned 180,000 head of cattle on seven Queensland farms covering about 1.58 million hectares

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Americans kill Yemeni attackers after shoot-out in barber's shop

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:06 PM PDT

CIA officer and special forces agent fight off kidnap attempt amid rising violence in volatile Gulf state

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Judge says Arkansas gay marriage ban is unconstitutional

Posted: 09 May 2014 07:03 PM PDT

Ruling overturns 10-year ban but judge says the state has 'no rational reason' to prevent gay couples marrying

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Second man in court on $7m insider-trading scam charges

Posted: 09 May 2014 06:57 PM PDT

Australian Bureau of Statistics' employee Christopher Hill refused bail, extradited to Melbourne

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ANC seals fifth successive election victory in South Africa

Posted: 09 May 2014 03:25 PM PDT

Jacob Zuma to stay as president but share of vote slips again as Democratic Alliance rivals raise vote to 22.2% Continue reading...






Pussy Riot members visit Occupy activist Cecily McMillan in prison

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Campaigner is awaiting sentence for assaulting police officer
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova 'appalled and saddened' by case

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Florida businessman 'systematically' killed family before starting fire

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Darrin Campbell, wife and two children died in 'murder-suicide'
Family died at house owned by ex-tennis star James Blake

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Militants kill four Yemeni soldiers

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:19 PM PDT

Gunfight in capital of Sana'a appears to be retaliation for army campaign against insurgency in southern strongholds Continue reading...






Ukraine: deadly clashes in Mariupol as Vladimir Putin visits annexed Crimea

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:50 AM PDT

Russian president greeted with patriotic fervour at second world war commemoration, while at least five are killed in southern city Continue reading...






West Virginia school accused of covering up sexual assaults on girls

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:23 AM PDT

Two boys accused of repeatedly attacking female students
Injunction alleges attackers were relatives of school employees

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WHO warns of risk to Syrian refugees as Mers virus cases increase sharply

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:55 AM PDT

UN health body fears secondary infections may be rising, raising potential for global spread and stirring memories of Sars virus Continue reading...

Former Colorado inmate sent back to jail after being released 90 years early

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Rene Lima-Marin was released in 2008 because his multiple sentences were recorded as concurrent rather than consecutive Continue reading...






Artists' open letter targets ice hockey world championships in Belarus

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:50 AM PDT

Authors appeal to tournament's players to make a stand, in country often known as Europe's last dictatorship Continue reading...






Indian election: the unholy battle for Varanasi

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:45 AM PDT

A three-way fight between the BJP, Congress and the upstart AAP for India's holiest city reveals a fight between competing styles and visions Continue reading...






9/11 families angry over 'disgraceful' city plan to store remains at museum

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:43 AM PDT

Relatives of people killed in the attacks are planning to picket delivery of last unidentified human remains to $700m museum

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Man kills himself and three members of California family

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:58 AM PDT

Victims include woman in her 50s and her son and daughter
Crime appears to have stemmed from a domestic situation

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New York commuter train retires bar cars famous for 'Mad Men vibe'

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:57 AM PDT

Metro-North trains linking Manhattan and Connecticut will lose 'rolling taverns' in which riders drank and heard live music

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Top Saudi cleric condemns Boko Haram over kidnapping of schoolgirls

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:53 AM PDT

The most senior authority in the birthplace of Islam adds his voice to those of other religious leaders in the Muslim world Continue reading...








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