International

Ian Thorpe, one of Australia's most successful athletes, has reportedly revealed he is gay in a TV interview with Sir Michael Parkinson to be broadcast later today.
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Liverpool have confirmed that they have agreed to sell Luis Suárez to Barcelona. The Uruguay forward will travel to Barcelona to complete a medical after the two clubs agreed a fee of around £75m. Suárez has signed a five-year contract.
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Her eyes are bloodshot and hollow, her arms emaciated and scratched. Pacing about her living room, Angelina Jolie picks at her skin with her filthy fingernails as her self-proclaimed drug dealer films her in a rambling phone conversation…
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The mayor of a Mexican fishing town 'married' a crocodile dressed in a white gown yesterday, in a symbolic ceremony that's part of a local tradition. Before the union, the wedding party walked with the crocodile bride through the town of…
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Eighty people were injured when two Metrorail passenger trains collided near Berea in Durban on Tuesday, paramedics said.
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Four of the kidnapped Nigerian girls being held by Boko Haram militants have escaped, a local education official has said. Reuters reported that the election commissioner in Borno state - the state where the girls were abducted from -…
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With military pomp and traditional rituals, South Africa buried Nelson Mandela on Sunday, the end of an exceptional journey for the prisoner turned president who transformed the nation.
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LONDON - Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning.
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The South African government has confirmed that former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela (94) is recovering from a successful operation to have gallstones removed.
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US President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. With results in from most states, America's first black president had secured the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win…
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