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Orient Express brings luxury trains to South-East Asia

Eastern promise ... Orient Express launches a series of rail tours through Thailand and beyond.

Thailand Begins Repatriation of Hmong to Laos - NYTimes.com

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A thriving tourist industry, gold and copper mines and the construction of several large hydroelectric dams are nudging to life what for decades has been a sleepy backwater. The hammer and sickle flag, symbol of the country’s ruling communist party, still flies across the country but unlike neighboring Vietnam, Laos’ closest ally, capitalist fervor has not yet taken hold. Laos remains one of the poorest and least populated countries in Asia. Roughly the size of Great Britain, the country has fewer people – about 6 million – than metropolitan Bangkok.

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Bahamas steps up the hunt for 'Barefoot Bandit' - Yahoo! News

Taliban commander captured as NATO ramps up raids - Yahoo! News

US denies visa to Colombian journalist - Yahoo! News

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Iraq: Suicide bomber kills 6 in Baghdad - Yahoo! News

Canada economy creates surge of jobs in June - Yahoo! News

Canadian guilty of breaking U.N. sanction on Iran - Yahoo! News

Canada approves restart of isotope reactor - Yahoo! News

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Cold War redux: US, Russia swap 14 spies in Vienna - Yahoo! News

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Paul the so-called "octopus oracle" predicts Spain's victory in their World Cup semi-final against Germany at the Sea Life Aquarium in O

Reuters – Two year-old octopus Paul, the so-called "octopus oracle" predicts Spain's victory in their …

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Anne Frank story published as graphic novel - Yahoo! News

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Georgia claims it has world's oldest person, 130 - Yahoo! News

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YAHOO, Top Stories, Jul 06, 2010

• 10 Russian spies deported after NY guilty pleas (AP) AP - In the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, 10 Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America were deported Thursday in exchange for four people convicted of betraying Moscow to the West.
  
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Scientists claim fish 'talk' to each other

By Paul Chapman in Wellington
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Jul 2010

Goldfish were found to be good listeners Photo: IAN JONES

Bus driver shoots six dead near Cairo

Published: 6:43PM BST 06 Jul 2010

Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features

Spain offers to take all 52 freed Cuban prisoners

Published: 7:00AM BST 08 Jul 2010

Cuban president Raul Castro: the release of political prisoners would be the island's largest mass liberation in decades Photo: AP

Buenos Aires workers get Siesta Zone

  Published: 3:16PM BST 07 Jul 2010

Psychologist Viviana Vega leaves the room where Rodrigo Rocco, a public relations specialist, takes a siesta Photo: REUTERS

More than 50 killed in Iraq attacks

Published: 11:40PM BST 07 Jul 2010

Shiite worshippers at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Mosque earlier in the day. Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

Heat wave in New York and several other eastern US states

New York has roasted in record temperatures this week as a heat wave rolled across the eastern United States. The National Weather Service measured 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.45 Celsius) in Central Park in mid-Manhattan on Tuesday, easily breaking the 101 degrees record set for July 6 back in 1999

Taiwan MPs brawl in parliament

Published: 11:42AM BST 08 Jul 2010

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Turkey says joining EU is still top priority

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, said Turkey was committed to joining the European Union

Thousands evacuated in Texas and Mexico as storm approaches

Published: 7:00AM BST 08 Jul 2010

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Californian earthquake stops rides at Disneyland

Published: 7:00AM BST 08 Jul 2010

The quake was initially reported as a magnitude-5.9 but later downgraded to 5.4 Photo: AP

Belgian undertakers plan to dissolve dead and flush them into sewage system, Jul 08, 2010

Allan Hall, in Berlin 12:31PM BST 07 Jul 2010
The controversial new method is said to be less expensive and more environmentally friendly than running highly polluting crematoria or using up valuable land for graves.
The departed would go into the sewage systems of towns and cities and then be recycled in water processing plants.
The proposals are being studied by the EU and if approved, it would mean the procedure could be used across Europe.
However, opponents of the plans say it smacks of a Frankenstein callousness towards the dead and one survey in Belgium found many people found the idea "disturbing."
"The idea is for the deceased to be placed in a container with water and salts and then pressurised and after a little time, about two hours, mineral ash and liquid is left over," said a spokesman for the Flemish Association of Undertakers.

Two feared dead as 'Duck boat' capsizes in US river

A Ride the Ducks boat in the Delaware River. Photo: Splash News

Two people gored during San Fermin bull running

Published: 12:46PM BST 08 Jul 2010

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Mafia boss, 93, faces prison after son breaks code of silence

Tom Leonard in New York

John 'Sonny' Franzese, left, arrives at Brooklyn's federal court Photo: AP

Records 'implicate Nicolas Sarkozy in illegal cash payments'

Peter Allen, in Paris
Published: 11:43AM BST 08 Jul 2010

One secret cash payment to Mr Sarkozy's presidential election campaign was said to be worth as much as ?150,000, or £125,000 Photo: EPA

Three suspected al-Qaeda members believed to be linked to attacks in Britain and the US have been arrested in Norway.

Eric Holder, the US attorney general, has called that one of the most serious terrorist plots since 9/11 Photo: AP

Barack Obama: Nasa must try to make Muslims 'feel good'

By Toby Harnden in Washington

Barack Obama wants Nasa to acknowledge Muslim achievements and contributions to science maths and engineering Photo: AFP/GETTY

'Russian spy' Anna Chapman to be returned to Moscow

Anna Chapman to be part of a swap for US spy Igor Sutyagin Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Anna Chapman in London: MI5 are investigated whether she was recruited in UK Photo: Facebook

Alex Chapman with his former wife alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman nee Kushchenko on their wedding day. Photo: DAILY TELEGRAPH

Anna Chapman will return to Moscow 'incognito' Photo: Facebook

The handover would be carried out as a “special operation” and no official announcement would be made, a diplomatic source told the online newspaper, Gazeta.ru.

Solar Impulse completes record-breaking flight

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Move over, Messi: Xavi’s the best

Xavi Hernandez is one of the main reasons Spain finds itself in the World Cup final.

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Brazil! Brazil! at Udderbelly - West End - Time Out London

Brazil! Brazil!

By Brian Logan 

'It's often said that the English invented football,' says the narrator of 'Brazil! Brazil!', 'but the Brazilians perfected it.' The same phrase appears on the Brazil tourist board's website - and I suspect it's not the only overlap. This celebration of all things Brazilian (whose cast is drawn from the country's most deprived ghettos and favelas) is like one of those shows you might be bussed to

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