New York rises to voting challenge

VOTING in a the US presidential election is the latest challenge for the hundreds of thousands of people in the New York-New Jersey area still affected by Superstorm Sandy. The campaigns of both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger...

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Moody's downgrades ArcelorMittal one notch

MOODY'S has downgraded ArcelorMittal's long-term credit rating by one notch to BA1, putting it into speculative or "junk" territory. Moody's says the deterioration in steel markets means the company can no longer reduce its debt enough to keep...

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Americans cast their first ballots

FROM a New England hamlet to a critical swing state neighbouring Washington's halls of power to the storm-scarred streets of New York, Americans are lining up to cast ballots for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Many were patient as voting got under...

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Sleepless night for Obama's ancestral home

PEOPLE in Barack Obama's ancestral home are preparing for a sleepless night as they watch the US elections. Reporters have descended on the small village in western Kenya, nestled in the hills about 60 kilometres from the blue waters of Lake Victoria....

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Mammoth skeleton found near Paris

A NEAR-COMPLETE skeleton of a mammoth which lived between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago has been found near Paris, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said on Tuesday. The remains were discovered at Changis-sur-Marne,...

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Instagram expands to the web

INSTAGRAM, the photo-sharing app that was created for mobile phones, is expanding to the web. The service will launch Instagram profiles on the web over the next few days. Previously, users' profiles existed only on Instagram's mobile applications...

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Gaza police catch crocodile after 2 years

IT took an internet search, shark nets and two weeks of floating in a sewage pond, but Gaza policemen have finally captured a crocodile that was terrifying residents. The 1.75-metre crocodile fled his zoo enclosure two years ago and crawled about...

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Thousands mourn N Ireland prison guard

THOUSANDS of mourners have lined the main street of a central Northern Ireland town to bid farewell to a prison officer slain by Irish Republican Army militants, the first killing of a guard in nearly two decades. David Black, 52, was shot several...

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