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20-11 Timesonline - world Teenager murdered for writing love letter to girl of higher caste An Indian teenager who dared to write a love letter to a sweetheart from a higher caste was beaten and paraded through the streets of his village before being thrown under a train.
20-11 Timesonline - world Fast food fury: son shoots dad, then himself, after order goes wrong A teenager shot his dad dead and then killed himself in a dispute over a fast food order in Texas.
20-11 Timesonline - world First cyber-bullying trial hears how Megan Meier, 13, killed herself after online taunts Tech Central: is lying in cyberspace a federal offence?
20-11 Timesonline - world Pentagon wants British Iraq forces redeployed in Afghanistan "surge" The Pentagon wants Britain to use troops withdrawn from Iraq to reinforce the Nato mission in Afghanistan, despite strong misgivings in the Ministry of Defence.
20-11 Timesonline - world Madonna and Guy Ritchie agree divorce settlement over £300million fortune Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie have reached an agreement in their high-profile divorce battle, The Times has learned.
20-11 Timesonline - world Britons held hostage by pirates will not be ransomed, says Foreign Secretary Britain will not pay a ransom for two Britons being held by pirates who hijacked a super-tanker off the east African coast, the Foreign Secretary said today.
20-11 Timesonline - world Second bomb attack kills Thai protester One person has been killed and as many as 21 injured by an explosive device fired into an anti-government protesters' camp outside the Thai prime minister's compound in Bangkok.
20-11 Timesonline - world Two killed as violent storms hit Queensland Two people have died in the worst weather to hit Queensland, in 25 years.
20-11 Timesonline - world Cat gives birth to freak feline with two faces Click here to read more about the mutant moggy
20-11 Timesonline - world I won't lose another bag in space promises embarassed astronaut The astronaut who lost her bag in space has admitted that she did not check to see if the tool-kit was tied down and said it was hard to face her colleagues after the expensive accident
20-11 Timesonline - world Somali pirates demand $25m ransom for supertanker$ Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned super-tanker Sirius Star today demanded $25 million in ransom and set a 10-day deadline.$
19-11 Timesonline - world US missile strike kills six in Pakistan village A suspected American missile strike hit a village well inside Pakistani territory today, killing six alleged militants, according to local officials, despite Pakistan's repeated demands for the United States to stop such attacks.
19-11 Timesonline - world Michelle Obama takes daughters on tour of Washington schools Self-described “mom-in-chief” Michelle Obama has been busy preparing her troops for their advance on the capital, taking daughters Malia and Sasha on a reconnaissance of DC schools and their soon-to-be home.
19-11 Timesonline - world Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel A prominent Iranian blogger, nicknamed the Blogfather for spawning Iran’s spectacular blogging revolution, has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel.
19-11 Timesonline - world Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda deputy brands Barack Obama a 'house negro' Al-Qaeda today invoked the speeches of Malcolm X in a propaganda exercise designed to divide African-Americans, accusing Barack Obama of being a "house negro".
19-11 Timesonline - world Sirius Star officers named as negotiations begin with pirates The families of two British officers being held by Somali pirates said that they hoped the men would be “home safely very soon” after ransom negotiations began.
19-11 Timesonline - world Winona Ryder rushed to hospital after transatlantic flight Winona Ryder, the Hollywood actress, has been rushed to a London hospital after being taken ill on a flight from Los Angeles.
19-11 Timesonline - world Josef Fritzl 'plans to plead not guilty' to murder and slavery Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician who raped and incarcerated his daughter in his cellar and fathered seven children by her, will plead not guilty to charges of murder and slavery.
19-11 Timesonline - world Genetic code shows woolly mammoth was elephant's close cousin The genetic code of the woolly mammoth has been mapped by scientists, raising the prospect that it may one day be possible to resurrect the behemoths that died out at the end of the last Ice Age.
19-11 Timesonline - world Amid poverty and hunger, armies fight to grab wealth of mines and forests The charcoal cutters of Virunga National Park know that their trade is illegal. Their fires, where they turn freshly cut olea trees into blackened cooking fuel, are built far from prying eyes in the war zone.
19-11 Timesonline - world Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade.
19-11 Timesonline - world Lawyers gather as last six fight over Senate superpower A hand recount of nearly three million votes begins in Minnesota today to determine the winner of a disputed and extraordinarily close Senate race, one of three yet-to-be decided contests that could still give Democrats the coveted 60-seat “supe
19-11 Timesonline - world Barack Obama close to naming Eric Holder as first black attorney general Barack Obama is close to announcing the nomination of Eric Holder to become America’s first black Attorney-General as he juggles his supporters’ desire for change, the need for experienced officials and intense pressure on him from interes
19-11 Timesonline - world Britain urged to open the door to newest Europeans As many as one million Bulgarians and Romanians have moved to the richer half of Europe to find work in the past four years, but Britain has largely avoided the influx by imposing restrictions, EU figures showed yesterday.
19-11 Timesonline - world Hindu extremists' reward to kill Christians, as Britain refuses to bar members Extremist Hindu groups are offering rewards of money, food and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and to destroy their homes in India, according to aid workers in the eastern state of Orissa.
19-11 Timesonline - world Credit without the crunch: man pawns off $15,000 gold and diamond dentures$ For some, the credit crisis now has much less of a crunch.
19-11 Timesonline - world Indian Navy sinks pirate mothership during bold stand-off in Gulf of Aden An Indian navy warship has sunk a Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, the world's most treacherous waterway, after the renegades threatened to attack the frigate.
19-11 Timesonline - world Student bonfire caused weekend Santa Barbara fires A bonfire built by a group of college students caused the weekend 'Tea Fire' in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions owned by Hollywood celebrities, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities have sai
19-11 Timesonline - world Somali pirates demand ransom for Sirius Star The Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi oil super-tanker Sirius Star have demanded a ransom, according to a purported mastermind of the daring heist.
19-11 Timesonline - world US Republican senator Ted Stevens loses seat, pushing Democrats closer to magic 60 Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in US history, appeared to have lost re-election to his Alaska seat last night after a recount, a result clearly linked to his conviction on corruption charges days before the November 4 election.
19-11 Timesonline - world US missile strike kills six in Pakistan village A suspected American missile strike hit a village well inside Pakistani territory today, killing six alleged militants, according to local officials, despite Pakistan's repeated demands for the United States to stop such attacks.
19-11 Timesonline - world Lost in space - what happens when an astronaut loses her bag It's a dilemma all women can empathise with. You open your handbag to find that your makeup has leaked everywhere.
18-11 Timesonline - world Silvio Berlusconi plays 'cuckoo' prank on Angela Merkel Watch video footage of Mr Berlusconi's prank
18-11 Timesonline - world Miliband breaks with US by urging Syria to lead Middle East peace process Drawing a sharp contrast with American foreign policy, David Miliband urged President Bashar Assad of Syria to play a leading role in the Middle East peace process today when the two met in Damascus.
18-11 Timesonline - world Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news China’s propaganda mandarins are experimenting with a new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens.
18-11 Timesonline - world Inauguration chaos as Obamania prompts ticket row As millions of Americans clamour for seats at the historic inauguration of the country’s first black president, a senator overseeing preparations has promised to criminalise profiteers reselling free tickets to the event for exorbitant sums.
18-11 Timesonline - world Pirates strike off Africa again as new cargo ship is hijacked Royal Navy hands over eight suspected pirates | Live piracy map
18-11 Timesonline - world Judge Baltasar Garzón quits probe into fate of Franco 'disappeared' Spain’s best known judge has today reversed his decision to investigate the disappearance of thousands of people during the Civil War and the dictatorship of General Franco.
18-11 Timesonline - world UK cocaine users 'helped fund Betancourt kidnapping' claims Colombia VP British cocaine users helped finance the kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia’s Vice-President claimed today, as he travelled to the UK to warn that its consumption of the drug was destroying rainforests and funding terror in the Latin Amer
18-11 Timesonline - world Anger as Indian police who tortured terror suspects escape action Human rights activists today expressed outrage that Indian police officers responsible for torturing Muslims, using methods including severe beatings and electric shocks, will not be prosecuted.
18-11 Timesonline - world Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth Emboldened by its first mission to the Moon, India is to take on a target closer to Earth: Google.
18-11 Timesonline - world Dig turns up dark end of a loving Flintstones family A set of ancient skeletons discovered in Germany has demonstrated that, just like the Flintstones, Stone Age humans formed nuclear families.
18-11 Timesonline - world Cape route beckons – and the consumer will pay Somali pirates have captured more than 30 vessels this year, but the Sirius Star is their most ambitious attack yet. As their prizes become ever larger, the consequences will be felt by Western consumers, for these attacks are now a serious threat to
18-11 Timesonline - world Armed guards on board would be a last resort Say the word “pirate” and you and I see a violent, peg-legged sea dog with gunpowder smouldering in his beard.
18-11 Timesonline - world Joined the navy to see the world, but only saw the sea “Go to Sea!” is the slogan of the International Maritime Organisation’s campaign, begun today, to address the acute shortage of recruits choosing a life on the ocean waves.
18-11 Timesonline - world Art world defies diplomatic chill to create good impression in Russia Political relations between Britain and Russia may still be in the deep freeze, but when it comes to culture the countries appear not to have noticed anything amiss and are enjoying a rare boom.
18-11 Timesonline - world Convoy brings winter relief to Nato forces A convoy supplying Nato forces in Afghanistan drove through the Khyber Pass yesterday as Pakistan reopened the crossing for the first time since militants hijacked and looted 13 lorries last week.
18-11 Timesonline - world More flee rebel advance after Congo ceasefire is shot to pieces Renewed fighting shattered any hopes of a speedy end to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday as rebels pushed on with an offensive hours after their leader said that he would observe a ceasefire.
18-11 Timesonline - world Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang quits after turmoil Jerry Yang, the embattled chief executive of Yahoo!, is to step down as soon as the embattled internet search engine group finds a successor.
18-11 Timesonline - world Pirates make contact with owner of oil supertanker Royal Navy hands over eight suspected pirates | Live piracy map