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People power the last resort in border war ON A rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan's lawless tribal region.

German Robin Hood is a hard times hero IT IS dusk, and outside a 14th-century Gothic building, filthy, bearded actors with broadswords and mobile phones are milling about, smoking cigarettes and sipping coffee from plastic cups to stay warm.

Defending the drug barons – in God's name SITTING down with Silvia Raquenel Villanueva can be a nerve-racking experience and not just because she is a sharp-tongued lawyer who cusses like a sailor if provoked. There is also the delicate question of the people who want her dead.

Obama will meet McCain after interviewing Clinton PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to make controversial choices for his top level political team, interviewing primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson to be his secretary of state.

Thousands flee as LA blaze destroys homes

Residents flee as LA blaze destroys homes

Sri Lanka's army seizes strategic western coast

Extremists turn sights on liberal Lahore

Socialist party in turmoil

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