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Leading retailers threaten Australian wool boycott (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:11 PM PDT

A PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activist, dressed up as an injured sheep, protests outside the Australian High Commission building in Kuala Lumpur, in 2006. Animal rights activists have long campaigned against mulesing -- the Australian practice of cutting a slice of flesh from a sheep's rump to prevent the animal dying of flystrike.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)AFP - Leading fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian wool after farmers said they would continue sheep mulesing, cutting of the hide to prevent disease, a report said on Monday.

500 children a year abducted from Britain: report (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:06 PM PDT

File photo shows school children playing arcade games in London. Almost 500 children were abducted from Britain and taken abroad last year, the Guardian newspaper said Monday, highlighting Pakistan as a hotspot.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Almost 500 children were abducted from Britain and taken abroad last year, the Guardian newspaper said Monday, highlighting Pakistan as a hotspot.

Teenager attacked with snake: police (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

A python in captivity. A gang pinned down a 14-year-old boy and attacked him with a snake, forcing the reptile to bite the teenager on the arm, police said Sunday.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)AFP - A gang pinned down a 14-year-old boy and attacked him with a snake, forcing the reptile to bite the teenager on the arm, police said Sunday.

British, Australian security contractors shot dead in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 01:50 PM PDT

An Iraqi military helicopter patrols the skies over Baghdad's AFP - Two security contractors, one British and the other Australian, were killed in an alcohol-fueled shooting inside the Iraqi capital's secure "Green Zone" on Sunday, officials said.

British contractor arrested in killing of two colleagues in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:07 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities arrested a British security contractor early Sunday on suspicion that he shot two colleagues to death after an argument in Baghdad's International Zone.

Govt does not rule out torture risk: ministers (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:34 AM PDT

A woman puts a blindfold over her eyes during a protest organised by Amnesty International in London in 2005. Senior ministers said they could not rule out that vital anti-terror information had been obtained through the torture of suspects abroad.(AFP/Pool/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Senior ministers said Sunday they could not rule out that vital anti-terror information had been obtained through the torture of suspects abroad.

Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 5, 2005 file photo, a private contractor gestures to their colleagues flying over in a helicopter as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack. Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor on murder charges over the shooting deaths early Sunday Aug 9, 2009, of a British and an Australian contractor in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a new security pact took effect on Jan 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor Sunday over the shooting deaths of two co-workers in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a security pact lifted the immunity that had been enjoyed by foreign contractors for most of the war.

British, three Afghan soldiers killed: military (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 07:07 AM PDT

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol in Musa Qala in Helmand province in 2007. A British soldier and three Afghan troopers have been killed in suspected insurgent bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, the military said, as security forces braced for the August 20 elections.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - A British soldier and three Afghan troopers have been killed in suspected insurgent bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, the military said Sunday, as security forces braced for the August 20 elections.

British actor claims he fathered Jackson's daughter (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:51 AM PDT

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris and two sons Prince Michael II (also known as Blanket) and Prince Michael (right) wave at the end of a memorial service for their father at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in July 2009. Former child acting star Mark Lester has told a newspaper that he donated sperm to Michael Jackson and believes he could be the biological father of Paris.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Former child acting star Mark Lester said in a British newspaper Sunday that he donated sperm to Michael Jackson and believes he could be the biological father of the late singer's daughter Paris.

British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:17 AM PDT

A British soldier on patrol in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province in 2007. A British soldier has been killed by an explosion while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in London confirmed.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - A British soldier was killed by an explosion while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in London confirmed Sunday.

UN: Violence hampering Afghan vote (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:56 AM PDT

Supporters of Afghan Presidential candidate and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah take his picture with cell phone during his election campaign rally in Istalif, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Afghan President Hamid Karzai was long seen as the inevitable winner, but Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, has emerged as Karzai's top challenger and appears to have closed at least part of the gap with a campaign focusing on government mismanagement, corruption and rising violence.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Insecurity in significant portions of Afghanistan has hindered election preparations and disproportionately affected Afghan women, a report co-authored by the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday.

Australian woman denies McCann link: report (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:02 PM PDT

A photo-fit of a woman that investigators wish to speak to in the on-going case into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Private detectives last week said they were seeking a AFP - An Australian woman has denied any knowledge about the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann after a friend identified her as a mystery witness in the case, a report said on Sunday.

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