An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.

• Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record
• Microsoft's newest browser may block ads
• Spider forces family out of home
• Diaper saves baby's life in Brazil
• Charles and Diana wedding cake sells for £1,000
• Two-headed boy born in Bangladesh

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• Bhutto Assassinated
• Fukuda Elected Japanese PM
• Missile Defense Dispute
• US School Shooting
• N.Korea Nuclear Crisis
• Escalating Violence in Iraq

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Twelve movie extras are seeking $11 million in damages from Tom Cruise and his production company after suffering broken bones, cuts and bruises in the filming of World War Two picture "Valkyrie" in Berlin last year.

• Madonna defies age as tour starts
• Beckham praises Beijing Games, backs Bolt's right to gloat
• Coach says Phelps cannot better Beijing
• Like lightning, Bolt sets record in Olympic 200m
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• Jamaica's Fraser joins Bolt as Olympic 100m champ

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Leaders from member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe Thursday for a summit, which will focus on security, economic and cultural cooperation.

• Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit opens in Dushanbe
• South Korea keen on tourism ventures with Malaysia
• Anwar sworn in as MP in Malaysia
• Vietnam to remove university entrance exams in 2010
• Two-headed boy born in Bangladesh
• Riot police ready to disperse protesters at Bangkok's Government House

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California's tobacco control program saved 86 billion US dollars in 2004, while only costing the state US$1.8 billion to fund the program, a new study showed.

• US economic growth in Q2 revised to 3.3 percent
• Strengthening Storm Gustav heads south
• AIDS in New York spreads 3 times faster than rest of US: report
• Obama set to woo nation with historic speech
• Diaper saves baby's life in Brazil
• Hot dogs spark patriotism row in US

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Iraq and the US negotiators have reached a draft agreement on a proposed withdrawal timetable and other issues on the US military presence in Iraq beyond 2008, CNN reported Friday.

• US to hand over Anbar province to Iraq
• Iraq says US sought troop presence to 2015
• Over a dozen militants killed in S. Afghanistan
• US-led air strikes killed 90 Afghan civilians - UN
• Abbas: final peace deal with Israel has to be complete
• Four killed in car bombing north of Baghdad

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A European Union (EU) report has predicted that Britain's population is to top all EU countries in over 50 years, BBC reported on Wednesday.  

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• British councils allowed to adopt red phone boxes
• Experts warn of careless use of soil
• Georgia recalls most diplomats from Moscow
• US, Russia anchor military ships in Georgian ports
• Tortoise survives being buried under 50 tons of rubbish

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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dismissed local media reports that he supports attempts by the International Criminal Court to indict Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir over alleged war crimes in the troubled Darfur region.

• Hijackers free all Sudanese plane passengers
• Zimbabwe opposition wins vote for speaker
• Swaziland: Women challenge royal extravagance
• Latest round of UN climate change talks open in Accra
• Nelson Mandela's name hijacked in internet fraud
• New bomb attacks in Algeria killed 12

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