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20/10/2010 - Somalia - UK

British aid worker freed in Somalia

Somali gunmen who last week abducted a Zimbabwean working for British charity Save the Children released him early Wednesday.

17/10/2010 - World football - Nigeria

Fifa hit by World Cup vote-selling claims

The international football authority, Fifa, has launched an investigation into reports by a British newspaper that senior officials had offered to sell their votes in the bidding race for the 2018 ...

15/10/2010 - Pakistan - Nato

Nato truck torched in Pakistan, US rallies Nato leaders

Taliban fighters torched a Nato supply truck in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district on Friday, killing two people, officials said.

14/10/2010 - United Kingdom

Thatcher celebrates 85th birthday at Downing Street

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher will celebrate her 85th birthday with a return to her old residence at No 10 Downing Street on Thursday.

06/10/2010 - France - United Kingdom

France warns of high UK terror risk

A terror attack is “highly likely” in Britain, according to the French Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Yemen
06/10/2010 - Yemen

Frenchman killed, three wounded in Yemen

The French head of Austrian energy group OMV's Yemen operations was killed by an armed guard on Wednesday at a company compound near Sanaa.

05/10/2010 - Science

Graphene pioneers win Nobel prize

The 2010 Nobel Prize Committee awarded Dutch natoinal Andre Geim and British-Russian Konstantin Novoselov with the Physics Nobel prize for their pioneering work on developing graphene, a carbon ...

04/10/2010 - Nobel Prize

IVF pioneer wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Robert Edwards of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for his work on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), which has helped millions of infertile couples to have a child.

03/10/2010 - US

US issues European travel warning

The US government is warning Americans to be careful when travelling to Europe, alleging that Al-Qaeda and affiliated organisations are planning "terrorist attacks".

02/10/2010 - Uganda

Designer seeks payment for Uganda's national flag, 48 years on

A retired teacher in Uganda has gone to court to stop the country flying the national flag until he's paid royalties for designing the banner at independence, 48 years ago.

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