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LONDON (AFP) - British troops numbers in Afghanistan are likely to rise before they fall, the commander of the country's soldiers there said in an interview published Friday. More »
NEAR ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - After a century of broken promises, a paved road linking Kenya to Ethiopia is no longer a mirage for a desert region choked by remoteness. More »
The British public is split on its views of Russian military actions during its conflict with Georgia, a new politics.co.uk poll reveals today. More »
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Flocks of eBay sellers were squawking as the pioneering online auction website continued "bold changes" aimed at wrenching market share from Internet retail giant Amazon. More »
BEIJING (Reuters) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt could run away with a third gold on Friday to complete the Caribbean island's dominance of the Olympic athletics track. More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will star in a $300 million (160 million pound) marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp aimed at burnishing the image of its computer operating system, a person familiar with the effort said on Thursday. More »
GENEVA (AFP) - Scientists at the University of Lausanne said Thursday that mammals can communicate danger to each other through smell. More »
OTTAWA (AFP) - An outbreak believed linked to contaminated deli meats in Canada has killed one person and made several others sick, health officials said Thursday. More »
ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - The late, groundbreaking Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni will be honoured at the upcoming Venice Film Festival with a documentary about his life, one of three nonfiction additions to the lineup. More »
QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) - Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car. More »
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