Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for the first time Thursday, telling the judge he would defend himself against  genocide charges.

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Police have uncovered the mutilated remains of at least five children on the Channel Island of Jersey.

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Amanda Knox, an American student who has been held with two others in Italy on suspicion of the murder of her roommate, is not the sex-crazed young woman the international media have portrayed her to be, her family maintain. “The evidence is not there,” her mother said.

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Once the pride of Soviet science, Sukhumi’s Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy is now a shadow of the pioneering center that helped defeat polio and saved countless thousands of lives in World War Two with penicillin treatments.

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A panel today offered new details about how Blair, faced with Saudi threats to end cooperation on counterterrorism, personally intervened to scuttle an investigation into billions of dollars in allegedly improper payments made by British Aerospace Systems to obtain Saudi contracts.

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Rookie rider Paul Townend was the toast of Ballybrit as Indian Pace gave him the biggest victory of his fledgling career in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

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Retief Goosen was the early front-runner at Firestone Country Club today as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational got under way in Akron, Ohio.

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Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association over his assault on Ousmane Dabo 15 months ago.

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Daryl Murphy has signed a one-year extension to his Sunderland contract.

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Indian Pace (7-1) came late in the day to claim the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

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