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New pupils to stay in education till 17 (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 04:15 AM CDT AFP - New pupils enrolling in secondary schools this week will be required by law to stay in education until the age of 17, the government said on Wednesday.

2 journalists attacked, 1 killed in Russia (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 04:04 AM CDT AP - One journalist was shot and killed and another was left with a fractured skull after a beating in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, and police and co-workers said Wednesday the two men were likely targeted for their work.

Bloc pulls out of Ukraine's governing coalition (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:57 AM CDT AP - Ukraine's government is on the verge of collapsing again after a key bloc pulled out of the governing coalition.

Blair's sister-in-law trapped in Gaza (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:43 AM CDT AFP - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law says she is trapped in the Gaza Strip as Israel refuses to let her leave the Palestinian territory she entered aboard a protest boat.

Horse Whisperer author recovering after poisoning (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:38 AM CDT AFP - The author of the international best-selling book The Horse Whisperer was recovering Wednesday after falling ill from eating poisonous mushrooms.

Swiss break up Internet child porn ring, arrest 4 (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:23 AM CDT AP - Swiss prosecutors say police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in at least four countries.

Russia exploits division in Europe (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT The Christian Science Monitor - As Europe wrestles over how to deal with a game-changing Russia, the largest country in the world, it faces one of the oldest tactics in Moscow's diplomatic playbook: the art of divide and separate.

Ukraine's pro-Western government on brink of collapse (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 02:20 AM CDT AFP - The party of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko decided to quit the pro-Western governing coalition on Wednesday, plunging Ukraine into a new political crisis as relations with Russia worsened.

Detox Briton held in India for 'drunkenness' (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 02:09 AM CDT AFP - A British national has been held at a police station in Mumbai since last week after being taken off a flight from Goa for allegedly being drunk, officers in India's financial capital said.

Journalist in Russia's Dagestan killed (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2008 01:04 AM CDT Reuters - A prominent journalist in Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus died on Wednesday from wounds received in an attack overnight, regional police said.

UK army to consider alternatives to bearskin hats (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT AP - After meeting with animal rights activists, the British military said Tuesday that it will study alternative materials to replace the bearskin hats worn by the soldiers who guard Buckingham Palace.

79 sightseers rescued from cable cars in Austria (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 04:45 PM CDT AP - An equipment failure stalled a cable lift in the Austrian Alps on Tuesday, stranding 79 sightseers in gondolas for two hours before rescuers could get them down, authorities said.

Serb diplomat who allegedly helped escape detained (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 04:34 PM CDT AP - Police on Tuesday detained a former Serbian diplomat for questioning about allegations he helped a Serbian college student leave the United States to avoid assault charges stemming from a barroom brawl.

Cambridge University wants to be on TV soaps (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 03:17 PM CDT AP - Britain's soap operas offer a steady diet of sex, scandal — and if Cambridge University has its way, scholarship.

Swiss complaint against Gadhafi's son dropped (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 11:07 AM CDT AP - A lawyer for two ex-servants of the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says a complaint against the son in Switzerland has been dropped.

German prosecutors charge 3 in terror plot (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2008 08:47 AM CDT AP - Three men were charged Tuesday in connection with a foiled 2007 terrorist plot to attack U.S. and German targets in central Germany, the federal prosecutor's office said.

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