Pakistan try to focus after police grill trio (AFP)
AFP – Pakistan’s scandal-hit cricket team sought to focus on looming tour matches against England after police in London questioned three of its star players over an alleged betting scam.
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Zebra-painted horses walk Moscow intersections (AP)
AP – A peculiar sight greeted drivers in Moscow on Friday: zebras walking back and forth across some of the city’s busiest intersections.
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Cameron backs Hague over gay rumours (AFP)
AFP – Prime Minister David Cameron backed his foreign secretary William Hague on Thursday after an aide resigned over “malicious” rumours that they had an inappropriate relationship.
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Top Gear’s Stig to be unmasked as Bond stunt double (AFP)
AFP – The Stig, the mystery racing driver on BBC television’s Top Gear programme, will soon be unmasked as former James Bond stunt double Ben Collins.
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Germany marks reunification treaty’s anniversary (AP)
AP – German leaders are marking the 20th anniversary of the treaty that sealed the reunification of West Germany with the former communist East Germany.
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Russian nursing home fire kills 9 people (AP)
AP – A blaze killed nine people at a Russian nursing home on Monday and investigators say it apparently started when an elderly resident doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire.
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Pakistan thrashed by England amid ‘bet scam’ row (AFP)
AFP – Pakistan’s cricket team were embroiled in an alleged betting scam on Sunday after police in London arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers during a Test match against England.
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14 militants, 1 policeman killed in Russia (AP)
AP – At least 14 suspected militants and a police officer have been killed during three raids in the country’s volatile North Caucasus region, police said Saturday.
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Venezuelan politician raffles breast implants (Reuters)
Reuters – A Venezuelan politician is offering breast implants as a prize in a raffle to raise funds for his election campaign, a newspaper said Friday.
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Paris archbishop concerned about Gypsy crackdown (AP)
AP – The archbishop of Paris added to mounting criticism of France’s crackdown on Gypsies, referring to the operation as a “circus” and saying Thursday he would tell the government that there are lines that cannot be crossed.
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