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Police in Afghanistan have rescued a 15-year-old girl, who had been beaten, starved and locked up in a toilet for five months by her in-laws in the northeastern Baghlan province.

Filipinos have set a new world record for the largest simultaneous Christmas gift-giving event when 4,835 people in sites in the Philippines and compatriots in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan opened presents at the same time on Dec. 18.

An Egyptian court ordered Tuesday the military to stop conducting virginity tests on detained women protesters.

Italy's Antitrust Authority fined three Apple companies $1.18 million (900,000 euros) for misleading local consumers on warranty terms and customer assistance.

An Indonesian girl, who was swept away in the 2004 tsunami that hit her West Aceh village, was found alive Wednesday and reunited with her family after seven years of search for her home.

While North Koreans are mourning their late leader Kim Jong-il, a defector from the communist country now living in South Korea felt relieve that the man responsible for killing her family and destroying her life is now dead.

Victoria's Supreme Court sentenced Thursday a 17-year-old teenager to 13 years for stabbing dead an Indian student at a park in January 2010.

Heavy rains and flooding since Tuesday have killed 23 people in Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam prompting President Jakaya Kikwete to call on residents in affected valleys and lowland areas to evacuate.

Finnish authorities on Wednesday detained a British-flagged ship and its 30 all-Ukrainian crews at the Port of Kotka on suspicion of illegally transporting 69 Patriot missiles and 160 tons of explosives.

A hooligan charged at a goalkeeper during a Dutch football match Wednesday night but was knocked down and kicked by the player. The referee then gave the goalie a red card angering his team, who then walked out canceling the game.

Police in NSW found and seized more than 300 kilos of a chemical used in making "ice" hidden in frames of shipping containers.

Tragedy struck again in Indonesian waters when a passenger ferry with 150 people aboard sank off Maluku island in the country's east killing eight people.

Fugitive Malcolm Naden has broken into a home in Barrington Tops, NSW for the second time while another home south in Niangala was also burglarised, but police are still investigating if he was responsible.

An Australian journalist, three Belarusian journalists and three Ukrainian protesters have been released by KGB officers, who arrested them during a topless protest against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in front of the former Soviet spy agency's headquarters in Minsk.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay will no longer permit ships carrying the Falklands flag to dock in their ports, a move supporting the claim of Buenos Aires to the self-governing British overseas territory.

Indonesian rescuers recovered 40 bloated and decomposing bodies in waters off eastern Java on Wednesday. The rescuers also saw other floating bodies that likely belong to the 200 missing passengers of a migrant boat that overturned on Saturday while sailing to Australia's Christmas Island.

The U.S. has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to settle its dispute with China over duties imposed by Beijing on chicken feet imports from the U.S. that is adversely affecting American chicken producers.

A small plane with five people aboard, including two children, has crashed in central Texas. There were no survivors.

Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in riot gears in the streets of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Monday, the fourth day of violent protest movements in the region that already killed 14 people and wounded scores in two other cities.

Some 30,000 women will have to undergo surgery to remove breast implants suspected of causing cancer on eight women, according to France's health ministry.

A Libyan rebel commander who fought to oust Col. Moammar Gaddafi is suing the British government for its complicity in his torture by American and Libyan military interrogators in 2004.

A group of Indian activists calling for a law prosecuting corrupt government officials, including the prime minister and judges, has received a threat that their supporters will be pricked with needles tainted with HIV.

A Sri Lankan living in Queensland set a new world record by becoming the first man to hang by his hair for 23 minutes and 24 seconds.

Papua New Guinea Governor-General Michael Ogio on Monday recognised Peter O'Neill as the prime minister saying he erred in reinstating Sir Michael Somare in that post earlier.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a California man to stop donating sperm for free via his website after learning that he already fathered 14 children. But Trent Arsenault, 36, of Fremont continues to give his sperm until the court tells him to stop doing so.

Police in Glenn Innes have found 25 dead ponies dumped near a cliff in northern NSW and is asking the public for information about a truck that may have been used to bring the animals there.

Fifteen survivors of an overloaded migrant boat that sank off eastern Java on Saturday were found in two separate islands on Monday.

Police in Bali has detained an Australian involved in the brawl at a disco near Kuta Beach that wounded two other Australians last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Monday.

Egypt lost priceless historical documents and maps dating back more than 200 years ago when a library housing the rare collections was burned during violent clashes between protesters and police in central Cairo on Saturday.