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Lookout desk at world's tallest tower shut down

9:56am Monday 8th February 2010

The observation deck of the Burj Khalifa - the world’s tallest tower - has been unexpectedly shut down, little more than a month after it opened.

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India in missile test

4:50pm Sunday 7th February 2010

India has again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, it was announced today.

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Karachi hit by bomb blasts

1:33pm Friday 5th February 2010

At least 22 people were killed and dozens more injured today as two bombs exploded in Pakistan’s largest city, one outside a hospital treating casualties from the first attack.

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Eleven killed in blast

11:45am Friday 5th February 2010

At least 11 people were killed today when a bomb exploded next to a bus carrying Shia worshippers in the south of Pakistan, officials said.

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Troops block protests in Kashmir

11:54am Thursday 4th February 2010

Thousands of soldiers in riot gear patrolled the streets in Indian Kashmir’s main city and warned residents to stay at home to quell protests over the death of a teenage boy.

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Man faces ban over wife's burka

1:18pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

France’s prime minister Francois Fillon today said he will sign a decree denying nationality to a man who acknowledged forcing his French wife to wear a burka-style veil over her face.

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US soldiers die in Pakistan blast

12:36pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

Three US soldiers were among seven people killed today in a roadside bomb blast near a girls’ school in north-west Pakistan, security officials said.

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Britain pledges millions to help slum-dwellers

4:47pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010

The British Government is to pump millions of pounds into improving the life of India’s slum-dwellers, it was announced Under the scheme, £14.5 million will go towards alleviating the plight - highlighted through the film Slumdog Millionaire - of those living in the sub-continent’s most overcrowded cities.

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Court orders lovers to pay fine with buffaloes and pig

8:24pm Sunday 31st January 2010

A Malaysian court ordered two lovers to pay a fine of four buffaloes and a pig after they were found guilty of having an illicit affair.

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Three charged over chruch attack

9:57am Friday 29th January 2010

Malaysian prosecutors charged three Muslim men today in the firebombing of a church - the first suspects in a string of assaults on places of worship amid a dispute over whether non-Muslims can refer to God as Allah.

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Blair accused of being a 'coward'

9:55am Friday 29th January 2010

Tony Blair was accused of being a “coward” today when he was driven into the Iraq Inquiry via a side entrance two hours before he was due to give evidence.

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Indian art in the spotlight

8:40pm Thursday 28th January 2010

After exploring China, the Middle East and America, the Saatchi Gallery is switching the spotlight to India with a display of paintings and sculptures from the country’s “flourishing” art scene.

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Anti-war protest as Blair faces inquiry

4:01pm Thursday 28th January 2010

Anti-war protesters will parade a coffin, wear handcuffs and have fake blood on their hands when former Prime Minister Tony Blair appears before the Iraq inquiry.

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Plotters executed in Bangladesh

10:14am Thursday 28th January 2010

Bangladesh executed five former military officers today for their role in the 1975 massacre of the country’s independence leader and several of his relatives and aides at a Dhaka home during a coup, authorities said.

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Pigs heads found in mosques after firebombing of churches

10:35am Wednesday 27th January 2010

Worshippers found severed heads of pigs at two Malaysian mosques following a spate of firebomb attacks on churches amid a dispute over the use of the word Allah by Christians, officials said.

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President wins re-election

10:32am Wednesday 27th January 2010

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won re-election today in a hard-fought race against his former army chief for control of a nation trying to rebuild after a devastating civil war.

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France backs plan to ban veil in public facilities

11:09am Tuesday 26th January 2010

France has backed a partial ban on the wearing of Muslim veils in public.

Rickshaw and taxi drivers given English lessons

3:07pm Monday 25th January 2010

Thousands of taxi and rickshaw drivers are being given English lessons to help them understand visitors during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi this October.

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France unlikely to impose total ban on veil

11:44am Monday 25th January 2010

France is unlikely to impose a total ban on Muslim veils but may bar them from public buildings, it emerged today.

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'US drone' crashes in Pakistan

5:54pm Sunday 24th January 2010

A suspected US drone crashed in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area near the Afghan border, intelligence officials and a local resident said.

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India issues hijacking alert

11:52am Friday 22nd January 2010

India issued a terror alert at its airports after receiving reports that militants were plotting to hijack a plane.

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US attempts to allay fears in Pakistan

11:51am Friday 22nd January 2010

America has no designs on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons or “a single inch of Pakistani soil”, US defence secretary Robert Gates has told the country’s military.

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Bias against Muslims in US

2:20pm Thursday 21st January 2010

Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey says.

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Slump in pound hits counter-terrorism programme in Pakistan

10:12am Thursday 21st January 2010

Foreign Secretary David Miliband was under pressure today to explain why there had been cutbacks in counter-terrorism programmes in Pakistan because of the falling value of the pound.

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'Tiger poachers' escaping the law

2:43pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

A wildlife conservationist has slammed the Indian government’s efforts to crack down on tiger poaching.

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FBI took Bin Laden 'lookalike' picture off Google

4:25pm Tuesday 19th January 2010

A Spanish politician angrily rejected an apology for the FBI using his picture to create a poster showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.

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'The tragic stories buried under the rubble surrounded us'

11:37am Tuesday 19th January 2010

Islamic Relief workers Moadh Kheriji and Adil Hussain tell of their first thoughts when they entered the earthquake parts of Haiti.

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India launches literacy project

4:16pm Monday 18th January 2010

India has begun a new adult literacy programme which aims to educate millions of citizens by 2012.

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Churches and temples attacked in Malaysia

9:10am Sunday 17th January 2010

A church in southern Malaysia was vandalised, apparently the latest in a string of attacks on Christian houses of worship in the Muslim-majority nation, police have said.