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Write comment (99 Comments)Cheryl Grimmer went missing on 12 January 1970 during a family day out at the seaside in Australia, when she was three years old.
The British-born toddler was kidnapped from a changing area after spending the morning at the beach with her mother and three brothers near the city of Wollongong in New South Wales.
Since then, police have never been
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Write comment (92 Comments)Sultan Qaboos was no household name, but he was one of the more pivotal figures of the Middle East.
At the heart of a turbulent region for decades, he's been the one leader quietly brokering dialogue between its enemies.
He was softly spoken and diminutive and the leader of a small gulf nation, but Sultan Qaboos packed a diplomatic punch far above
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Two luxury apartment blocks illegally built in India have been reduced to rubble in seconds.
The high-rise blocks in Kochi, Kerala state, were demolished on Saturday after a court said they had broken laws on not building within a certain distance of water.
About 2,000 people nearby were evacuated as a thick cloud of dust spread over the area.
Two
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Write comment (98 Comments)With the first Grand Slam of the tennis calendar - the Australian Open - starting next week there is concern about the air quality in Melbourne.
How hard will it be to play a five-set match in the summer heat with possible pollution from the bushfires smoke?
The tournament's director Craig Tiley said: "There will be
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Write comment (97 Comments)Britain's ambassador to Iran was arrested during protests in Tehran after the country admitted it had "unintentionally" shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.
Rob Macaire was detained on suspicion of organising, provoking and directing radical actions, with hostility towards Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei having grown since the announcement e
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