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Young in Yemen

08.02.10

Street sellers and child brides - life for Yemen's children

The Russian space agency has said it will hammer out plans to divert an asteroid that will pass near the Earth in 20 years' time. The British government did not make a deal to send the Lockerbie bomber home in exchange for an oil contract with Libya, Prime członek rządu Gordon Brown's office said Monday.

Top executives at General Motors meet to finalise a widely expected filing for bankruptcy protection, the BBC learns.



The US is considering putting North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, Hillary Clinton says. At least 15 people were killed and 13 others wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a hotel basement in central Afghanistan, the provincial police chief said. The wrinkle-faced bat's strangely shaped skull gives it a powerful bite and an advantage over other bats, according to research.

Edward Stourton in Israel has found that the Dead Sea is now shrinking at a terrifying speed.

Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim, and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to a new study that aims to map the global Muslim population. The recovery is too weak to end stimulus moves, G20 ministers say, as Britain suggests a transaction tax to fund bailouts.

A campaign manager for Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah is seriously injured after gunmen attack his vehicle. The bodies of 30 suspected militants are found in Pakistan's Swat valley, amid claims of unlawful killings by troops. A committee of Euro MPs moves to block the renewal of a deal allowing US anti-terror officials to access Europeans' bank data.



Democrats in the US Senate say they have now secured the votes they need to begin a full debate on healthcare reform. Many Jewish settlers in the West Bank believe the land was promised to them in the Bible by God. Tonga's 150-year-old monarchy is about to diminish as a democratically elected parliament takes over, as John Pickford reports.

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