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9:39 AM ACST | KEN THOMPSON has confirmed that his son, Andrew, has been found and they will be reunited "within a couple of days".
8:23 AM ACST | A member of Germany's central bank who made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Jews in a disputed book has agreed to quit his position on the board, the Bundesbank said in a statement on Thursday.
8:07 AM ACST | The evangelical Christian pastor from Florida who was threatening to burn copies of the Koran on this weekend's ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks has abandoned his plan.
8:01 AM ACST | Ken Thompson says he has entered a strange, surreal limbo, knowing that his six-year-old son, Andrew, has been found safe and well but “not knowing if he is two blocks away from me or 20 kilometres”.
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7:47 AM ACST | Ken Thompson says he has entered a strange, surreal limbo, knowing that his six-year-old son, Andrew, has been found safe and well but “not knowing if he is two blocks away from me or 20 kilometres”.
7:42 AM ACST | Hundreds have turned up at a Vienna bookshop where Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian kidnap victim held captive for over eight years, read passages from her autobiography published this week.
2:30 AM ACST | A GYPSY kneels under a table with a toddler in a local tradition during a religious service at a monastery, in Costesti, Romania.
2:30 AM ACST | BEIJING: The most senior Chinese diplomat at the United Nations has delivered a drunken rant against his boss, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and Americans at an Austrian retreat, a report says.
2:30 AM ACST | WELLINGTON: The New Zealand Defence Force's top scientist - who had the highest levels of security clearance - continued to work while he was being investigated for giving false information on his CV.
2:30 AM ACST | BELGRADE: Serbia has dropped a challenge at the United Nations General Assembly to Kosovo's independence, saying it would submit a different resolution in a compromise with the European Union - a bloc it is trying to join.
2:30 AM ACST | JAKARTA: The US President, Barack Obama, is under mounting international pressure to prevent a Florida church leader from carrying out a planned Koran burning.
2:30 AM ACST | THE US pastor who has provoked international condemnation for his plan to burn 200 copies of the Koran has been accused of using his own flock as slave labour in a furniture business.
2:30 AM ACST | WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court has ruled that former prisoners of the CIA cannot sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information.
2:30 AM ACST | TEL AVIV: Fresh details have emerged in the case of a Palestinian man convicted of ''rape by deception'' after he was accused of posing as a Jewish man in order to have sex with a Jewish-Israeli woman.
2:30 AM ACST | LONDON: The US broadcaster CNN has confirmed that Piers Morgan, a British former tabloid newspaper editor and TV talent show judge, will take over from the long-serving chat show host Larry King in January.
2:30 AM ACST | HAVANA: Fidel Castro has told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's economic model does not work any more, a rare comment on domestic affairs since stepping down from the presidency four years ago.
2:30 AM ACST | WASHINGTON: Five US soldiers deliberately killed Afghan civilians with grenades, before photographing the corpses and keeping body parts as trophies, according to Pentagon investigators.
09 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: American religious leaders have condemned the plans of a small evangelical Christian church in Florida to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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09 Sep 10 | The Iranian woman facing death by stoning has expressed surprise over reports that she was lashed after a British newspaper published a picture showing her without a headscarf, a judiciary official who says he met her told Fars news agency on Wednesday.
09 Sep 10 | The planned mass burning of copies of the Koran in the US state of Florida has drawn worldwide condemnation, with the Vatican saying it would be "an outrageous and grave gesture".
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