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• Cool Hamilton wins chaotic Belgian Grand Prix (AFP)
• Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary (AP)
• Swedish-Iranian Oriflame employee charged: Swedish ministry (AFP)
• King orders coalition talks to continue in Belgium (AP)
• Pakistan rocked by alleged betting scam (AFP)
• Belgian coalition talks head resigns but king says no (Reuters)
• Report: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers (AP)
• Sanofi-Aventis makes 18.5 bln dollar bid for US Genzyme (AFP)
• France Socialists challenge Sarkozy on security (AFP)
• Kangaroo testicle? Chefs in Serbia say, 'Yes!' (AP)
• Gadhafi gives lesson on Islam to young Italians (AP)
• Norway 'bomb plot' underscores al-Qaida pitfalls (AP)
• 19 dead in shootout in Russia's Caucasus (AP)
• US soldier drowns in Germany (AP)
• Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons (AP)

Cool Hamilton wins chaotic Belgian Grand Prix (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT AFP - Lewis Hamilton regained the initiative in the drivers' world championship in emphatic style on Sunday when he won a dramatic and incident-filled Belgian Grand Prix.

Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed on paper at all.

Swedish-Iranian Oriflame employee charged: Swedish ministry (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:09 PM PDT AFP - A Swedish-Iranian employee of Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame was charged in Iran for establishing a pyramid scheme and deriving illegal earnings from it, Sweden's foreign ministry said Sunday.

King orders coalition talks to continue in Belgium (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - A politician leading talks aimed at forming a new government in Belgium more than two months after an election offered to resign Sunday, but the country's king ordered him to keep trying.

Pakistan rocked by alleged betting scam (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 01:20 PM PDT AFP - Pakistan's cricket team were embroiled in an alleged betting scam Sunday after British police arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers during a Test match against England.

Belgian coalition talks head resigns but king says no (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 01:05 PM PDT Reuters - The Belgian politician leading talks to form a new government tendered his resignation on Sunday, but the king insisted he stay on to avert a political crisis two months after a parliamentary election.

Report: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 01:04 PM PDT AP - Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said.

Sanofi-Aventis makes 18.5 bln dollar bid for US Genzyme (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 12:37 PM PDT AFP - French pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis unveiled Sunday an 18.5 billion dollar (14.5 billion euro) offer for US biotechnology firm Genzyme, hinting it may launch a hostile bid.

France Socialists challenge Sarkozy on security (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 12:27 PM PDT AFP - France's opposition Socialists on Sunday launched their battle for the 2012 presidential election with an attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial crime crackdown.

Kangaroo testicle? Chefs in Serbia say, 'Yes!' (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 12:14 PM PDT AP - In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.

Gadhafi gives lesson on Islam to young Italians (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:31 AM PDT AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave a lesson on Islam and copies of the Quran to a few hundred young Italian women Sunday as he arrived in Rome for his fourth visit in a year.

Norway 'bomb plot' underscores al-Qaida pitfalls (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:30 AM PDT AP - When police arrested a suspected al-Qaida cell in Norway last month they turned up the makings of a bomb lab tucked away in a nondescript Oslo apartment building.

19 dead in shootout in Russia's Caucasus (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:29 AM PDT AP - A shootout between the Chechen president's personal protection detail and suspected separatist insurgents left 19 people dead early Sunday, including five civilians, officials and media reports said.

US soldier drowns in Germany (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:16 AM PDT AP - NATO's training school in southern Germany says a 39-year-old U.S. soldier has died in a rafting accident.

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons (AP) Posted: 28 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT AP - For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.

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