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The growing clerical sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that the Devil is at work inside the Vatican, according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.
Women raped by father for 30 years finally get an apology
Two women who were repeatedly abused and raped by their father for three decades -- bearing seven of his children -- yesterday received an unreserved apology from British authorities who failed to protect them.
CIA used LSD to make French lose the loaf
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Mandela's ex-wife slams his 'bad deal'
A British newspaper interview that quotes Nelson Mandela's ex-wife bitterly criticising the 92-year-old icon as having "let us down" has prompted outrage in South Africa.
Dutch plan to let elderly die by injection
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Britain cuts aid to Malawi over $13m jet
Britain, Malawi's main bilateral donor, has cut aid to the southern African nation this year after Malawi bought a $13.26m (€9.7m) presidential jet last year, a senior British diplomat said yesterday.
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TRAINEE teachers are being told to act like Clint Eastwood (right) to win the respect of pupils, a British education centre said yesterday.
In brief: Cocaine hidden in fake pineapples
Customs officers found half a tonne of cocaine hidden inside plastic pineapples stored among a shipment of the real fruit in the Netherlands.
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Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the "despairing" levels of accidents.
New York chef offers customers cheese made from wife's breast milk
A New York restaurant chef has been warned by city health officials after he offered customers the chance to taste cheese made from his wife's breast milk.
Parents win right to have child sterilised
The parents of a profoundly disabled 11-year-old girl have won a court case to have her sterilised, prompting claims that the ruling amounted to an "abuse of human rights".
US to push on with Iraq withdrawal after poll
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