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A male streaker has spiced things up in conservative Japan, skinny dipping in the moat surrounding the country's royal palace.

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Shane Warne has admitted he would consider making a comeback to the Australian test side if he got the call.

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Protesters set cars on fire and threw bottles at police.

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One person is dead and 200 more have been injured in anti-government protests in Thailand.

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The search for missing Australian backpacker Britt Lapthorne is continuing as her family anxiously await the test results of a body found off shore.

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Passengers and crew on board a Qantas jet which plunged dramatically during a flight from Singapore to Perth have described their dramatic ordeal.

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Gordon Brown has held talks with Bank of England Governor Mervyn King on proposals to stabilise the banking system.

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Sales and confidence in the High Street have slumped since the summer, a British Chambers of Commerce report says.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presented an instructional judo DVD that bears his name and shows him throwing an opponent to the mat to journalists and guests in Moscow. This is the latest effort to boost his public image. (Oct. 7)

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Iran: Hungarian aid plane, not U.S. aircraft, forced to land

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Iran threatens U.S. helicopters in Strait of Hormuz incident

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Customers of internet bank Icesave are warned they may have to claim compensation for money in their savings accounts.

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Anti-government protests left at least one dead and hundreds injured as months of political turmoil boiled over, with troops deployed across Bangkok to quell the demonstrations.

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Authorities in Nepal have enthroned a three-year-old girl as a new Kumari, or "living goddess", in a centuries-old ritual the new government has allowed to continue.

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The European Union battled Tuesday to protect people's savings by more than doubling deposit guarantees to at least 50,000 euros, taking joint action against the global financial firestorm for the first time.

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EU finance ministers, seeking a confidence-booster as the global financial crisis pounded Iceland and UK banks, agree a hike in minimum levels of bank deposit insurance across the 27 European Union countries.

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Forty people were injured when a Qantas Airbus suddenly lost altitude during a flight from Singapore to Perth.

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Manouchehr Mottaki, Foreign Minister of Iran, discusses Iran and US relations

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A three-year-old girl has been named as the new "living goddess" of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu.

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Iceland takes over its second largest bank and props up its battered currency, the crown, in the face of financial crisis that threatens to overwhelm the economy.

A report by the British Chambers of Commerce has said business confidence is collapsing.

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Asian stock markets have opened down sharply amid investor fears of a global economic slowdown.

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Thailand's military agreed Tuesday to deploy hundreds of unarmed soldiers to the streets of Bangkok to help police restore order after violent clashes between police and protesters that left at least 1 person dead and 358 others injured. (Oct. 7)

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Poland, a traditional and renowned vodka producer, is now turning to wine-making following a change in its law facilitating the move.

Recapitalisation rumours caused shares in UK high street banks to slump as much as 30 percent.

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Riots erupt in Bangkok as anti-government protesters clash with police. CNN's Dan Rivers was there.

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Hundreds of thousands of British customers of the Icelandic internet bank, Icesave, have been told they cannot withdraw their money.

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Photographer Michael Hughes uses perception to replace the world's monuments.

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Germany's DAX index opens over 1.5 percent higher after suffering record losses the previous day, ending 7 percent down.

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A Qantas Airbus A330-300 makes an emergency landing at a remote Australian airport.

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A naked man led police in Tokyo on a two-hour chase in and around the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace.

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Asian markets showed signs of life on Tuesday, after investors cheered a big interest rate cut by the Australian central bank. The cut is aimed at alleviating an unfolding global credit crisis. (Oct. 7)

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Thailand's deputy Prime Minister resigns after accepting responsibility for clashes between police and anti-government protesters.

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Turkish warplanes have been pounding suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, after the death of 17 Turkish soldiers in a cross-border ambush.

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Penguins washed up on beaches in north-eastern Brazil head back to their natural habitat.

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Authorities are on the alert after the wave of tremors that have brought chaos to parts of China, Tibet and Kyrgyzstan.

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Dozens of passengers and crew have been in a mid-air emergency on a Qantas A330 - flight QF 72 from Singapore.