An Islamist militia firing squad shot a man convicted of murder on Friday in the first public execution the movement has carried out in Mogadishu since taking the Somali capital earlier this year. Hundreds of Somalis flocked to watch the young man Abduqadir Diriye -- who killed his victim during ...
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A visitor walks beside a mannequin displaying lingerie at the booth during the secondary of the Asia Adult Expo at the Venetian Convention and Exhibition Centre in Macau, China, 05 December 2008. Asia Adult Expo is the region's first sex fair and some 65 exhibitors from Japan, the United States, ...
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An exhibitor sits in front of sex dolls at a booth during the Asia Adult Expo at the Venetian Convention and Exhibition Centre in Macau, China, 05 December 2008. Asia Adult Expo is the region's first sex fair and some 65 exhibitors from Japan, the United States, the mainland China and Hong Kong w...
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Japanese bondage master demonstrates BDSM during the secondary of the Asia Adult Expo at the Venetian Convention and Exhibition Centre in Macau, China, 05 December 2008. Asia Adult Expo is the region's first sex fair and some 65 exhibitors from Japan, the United States, the mainland China and Hon...
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A model poses beside sex toys 'JapasexDeluxe Full' at a booth during the secondary of the Asia Adult Expo at the Venetian Convention and Exhibition Centre in Macau, China, 05 December 2008. Asia Adult Expo is the region's first sex fair and some 65 exhibitors from Japan, the United States, the ma...
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Mexican drug wars find new battleground on YouTube. Several slideshows are backed by the pumping bass and blaring horns of a famous 'narco corrido' ballad called "To My Enemies," widely seen as a musical attack on the Gulf Cartel's private army, The Zetas. The singer Valentin Elizalde was shot de...
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British based Minority Rights Group International says if the UN and the international community had been organised and set in place early warning and operational mechanisms large scale conflict could have been avoided. The international community had failed to learn from earlier crises like mist...
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Airport worker move under Thai airways aircraft at the Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi international airport, Thailand 4 December 2008. Thailand's domestic airlines resumed flights to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport after anti-government protestors vacated the premises, ending a siege that ha...
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Thai children in traditional costumes bid farewell to departing tourists during a re-opening party at Suvarnabhumi International airport in Bangkok, Thailand on 05 December 2008 as both Bangkok airports resume full service. Anti-government protesters had forced a week long closure of the airports...
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A pair of sea otters at the Vancouver Aquarium have become international stars, with more than 1.5 million people watching a video of them on the popular YouTube website in the past two weeks.
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A zoo cleaner has been mauled to death after he jumped into the tiger enclosure at Singapore zoo. Three white tigers mauled 32-year-old Malaysian Nordin Bin Montong after he leapt into the moat of the white tiger exhibit. The noise from the attack caught the attention of zookeepers nearby and the...
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Congo's rebel leader has threatened to take his guerrilla war westwards to the capital Kinshasa unless the government agrees to talks on the country's future. Defiant in the face of international moves to end the conflict in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Nkunda r...
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