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Issue: December 04, 2007 (Archive)

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Fuel vow despite rage
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday defended a government plan to hike fuel prices, a day after police battled demonstrators outside parliament.

Hungary charges suspect, 98, with Nazi war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal role in organizing the deportation of 12,000 Jews to death camps.

Heart-to-heart talks on human-animal organs
Japanese experts are discussing rules for experiments with human-animal embryos, as scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal.

Tough old prince waves off troubles
Britain's Prince Philip, 92 last week, defied the gloom and doomsayers by walking out of hospital yesterday much sooner than expected after abdominal surgery.

Seven jailed for killing football official
A Dutch court has jailed six teenage boys and a father for up to six years for brutally beating to death an amateur football linesman last year.

Tear gas fired in Indonesia fuel-hike protests
Thousands of protesters rallied across Indonesia against government plans to hike the price of fuel, with police in one city firing tear gas to stop hundreds storming the local parliament.

`Tipsy' Brit survives fall from 15th floor
A British man who survived a plunge from a 15th floor balcony in New Zealand was "extraordinarily" lucky to be alive, officials said yesterday.

Aussies rule your sex could be `x'
A landmark ruling in Australia that sex does not just mean male or female may have broader implications in society, experts say.

Haze triggers health alarm in Lion City
Singapore was shrouded in a smoky- smelling haze as pollution from forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island spread to neighboring countries.

SARS-like virus kills four more Saudis
Four more people have died from the new SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll in the kingdom to 32.

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