Issue: February 27, 2012   (Archive)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013   

Murdoch launches new Sunday Sun
Rupert Murdoch's Sun on Sunday tabloid rolled off the presses for the first time, with a pledge that the paper replacing the scandal-hit News of the World would abide by ethical standards.



Turks hit by transplant setback
Turkish surgeons had to remove one leg from a patient who underwent a quadruple limb transplant after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb, the hospital said yesterday.

Trial of activists begins in Cairo
The trial of dozens of democracy activists, including Americans, on charges of receiving illegal funding began in a packed Egyptian courtroom yesterday, despite Washington's insistence that the charges be dropped.

Hit back, Kim orders as drill looms
North Korea's new leader has ordered "a powerful retaliatory strike" by the army unit that shelled a Southern island in 2010 if US-South Korean drills violate Pyongyang's territory, state media said.

Russians join hands in anti-Putin protest chain
Thousands of Russians linked hands around Moscow in a symbolic protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin for a third term in elections next weekend.



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