No he couldn't: Obama brother loses poll

HIS half-brother may be the most powerful man in the world but that stardust seemed not to rub off on Malik Obama as he failed miserably to win a county governor's seat in Kenya's recently concluded elections. Obama, 54, who shares a father...

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Malta's opposition Labour wins election

MALTA'S opposition Labour party has won a general election for the first time in more than 15 years, with party leader Joseph Muscat claiming a "landslide victory" in the eurozone's smallest member. Early results based on a sample of ballots...

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Mandela leaves hospital after tests

PEACE icon Nelson Mandela is back home after spending a night in hospital for a "scheduled medical check-up", the South African president's office says. "Former President Nelson Mandela has this afternoon ... returned to his Johannesburg home...

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Karzai-Hagel event off due to security

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has cancelled a high-profile news conference in Kabul with new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, with US officials saying the event was dropped over "security concerns". A palace official, who declined to be named,...

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Bishop fails to sell Rolex to pay bill

A TOP Bulgarian cleric has failed to sell his gold Rolex to pay the electricity bill of his cash-strapped church, with no takers for the watch in the EU's poorest country. Metropolitan Nikolay of the southern city of Plovdiv decided to sell...

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Activists shoot down Aussie Pope idea

CARDINAL George Pell reportedly has no chance of becoming pope after his Australian opponents filled in the media and cardinals about the Sydney archbishop's history of dealing with sex abuse allegations. Australian commentator Paul Collins...

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Qld police say woman's death suspicious

BRISBANE police are treating the death of a woman at Rochedale South as suspicious. They say they were called to a residence, where the woman was found with life-threatening injuries. She was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical...

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