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Protesters Hold Tahrir, Call for Huge Rally to Oust Army

Egyptian riot police clash with protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo
Egyptian activists called for a huge turnout in protests Tuesday to put an end to rule by the military which also saw its authority challenged by the resignation of the civilian Cabinet, casting uncertainty on elections due next week.

British Tabloids out of Control, Inquiry Told

British actor Hugh Grant arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central London, November 21, 2011.
British tabloid journalists competing ferociously to secure front-page news believed themselves untouchable in recent years, losing all sense of right and wrong and making some public figures afraid to leave home, an inquiry has heard.
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British actor Hugh Grant (C) arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central London, November 21, 2011.

UK Phone-Hacking Victims Condemn Intrusion

The parents of a murdered British schoolgirl pleaded on Monday for the country's newspapers to curb practices such as phone hacking and covert photography as a public inquiry into media standards turned the spotlight on the celebrity obsessed press.
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Sikhs Can Carry Daggers into London Olympics

Sikh athletes and spectators will be allowed to wear ceremonial daggers into London Olympic venues next year, despite the intense security arrangements, as part of a multi-faith approach to the Games.
There was a total of 3,000 gay and bisexual men who were diagnosed with HIV in 2010, the highest ever annual number, according to a new report.

HIV Numbers Hit New High as AIDS Drugs Save Lives

More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS) said on Monday.
People walk past a sign of Olympus Corp outside the company's showroom in Tokyo

Olympus: Panel Finds no Criminal Links yet in M&A Deals

Japan's Olympus Corp said on Monday that a third-party panel appointed by the company to look into an accounting scandal has, so far, found no evidence that funds from its M&A deals went to organised crime syndicates or that yakuza gangsters were involved.
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Gaddafi's son captured, scared and without a fight

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya's southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.
Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood's Death: Case Reveals Lifelong, Eerie Connection to Water

Long before Wood's death by drowning, the West Side Story and Rebel Without a Cause star had a lifelong, unsettling relationship with water, including a childhood fear of drowning and many significant parts of her life lived at sea. As Wood's case is re-opened, and as details about Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern emerge, sister Lana Wood links her drowning to premonitions of a watery death.
Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam

Gaddafi's Son Captured in Libya: Who is Saif al-Islam?

The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is being held by Zintani rebels, authorities confirm, and will face trial for crimes against humanity. But will Saif al-Islam be tried in Libya, or by the International Criminal Court? And what role did al-Islam, once a Western-styled reformer, play in the brutal repression of the February uprisings?

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