SWITZERLAND - UN rights chief asks Iraq to stop executions
GENEVA (Reuters): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, yesterday appealed to Iraq not to execute two ex-officials from the administration of former president Saddam Hussein.
UNITED STATES - Governor files paperwork to explore presidential run
BOSTON (AP): Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, said yesterday he is filing papers to form an exploratory committee to run for president, joining an increasingly-crowded field of Republican hopefuls. "We've filed exploratory papers...
UNITED KINGDOM - 'Report anti-homosexuality to cops'
LONDON, United Kingdom: Students and parents should report schools to the police for "homophobic hate crimes", if the institutions fail to adequately address anti-homosexual beliefs and language among the student body...
UNITED KINGDOM - Cop hearings to be held in public
LONDON (Reuters): Disciplinary hearings for police officers accused of serious neglect or incompetence will be heard in public for the first time, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said yesterday.
PAKISTAN - Man loses ears, nose for love marriage
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters): Armed men cut off the ears and nose of a Pakistani man who married one of their tribe for love, after he and his family refused to hand over his wife, police said yesterday.
IRAQ - PM worried Saddam would avoid hanging
BAGHDAD (Reuters): Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, was concerned that if Saddam Hussein was not hanged quickly, he would somehow avoid the gallows, a senior United States official in Baghdad was quoted as saying yesterday.
SOUTH AFRICA - Bare-fist bouts a knockout with S Africa fight fans
GABA VILLAGE, South Africa (Reuters): Yanked from the sweaty crush, Victor Makhuvha puffs out his chest, throws a few bare-fisted jabs and minutes later finishes off his opponent with several rapid-fire blows.
UNITED KINGDOM - British teenager sails into Atlantic record books
LONDON (Reuters): A 14-year-old British boy sailed into the record books yesterday as the youngest person to make a solo voyage across the Atlantic. Michael Perham, who skipped school to make the trip, cruised into Nelson's Dockyard in Antigua...
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