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New York, Nov.8 (ANI): In a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of US President Barack Obama.

Sydney, Nov.8 (ANI): Ten years to the day since Australians voted to keep the Queen as head of state, a new opinion poll suggests that 59 percent now want a republic.

Texas (US), Nov.8 (ANI): Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas earlier this week, was linked with a radical imam who was a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001.

Sydney, Nov 8 (ANI): Tourism Queensland may have hailed Best Job in the World as the 'most successful tourism campaign ever' but it has failed to attract foreigners.

Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan would roll out its first indigenous JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft from the Kamra Aeronautical Centre by the end of this month, Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, has said.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 8 (ANI): Penang is all set to hold the world's largest pillow fight for a benefit cause on November 21.

Peshawar, Nov.8 (ANI): At least eight persons were killed, including a Union Council Mayor, and 24 wounded in a car bomb blast that rocked Peshawar on Sunday morning.

Melbourne, Nov 8 (ANI): A cheating husband has paid more than 100,000 dollars to his ex lover as part of Australia's new 'mistress laws'.

Melbourne, November 8 (ANI): Prince Harry and girlfriend Chelsy Davy appeared to drive their second-time-around relationship into the public eye as they stepped out for a rugby union in London.

London, Nov 8 (ANI): A British man has been tagged "The Sperminator" for getting twelve girls pregnant after wooing them on social networking site Facebook.

London, Nov 8 (ANI): Prince Harry is all set to step into the shoes of his father, Prince Charles, as he lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for the first time on Remembrance Sunday, the second Sunday of November.

London, Nov.8 (ANI): A new Channel 4 series, set in 1986, has dramatised the tense relationship that existed between Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has admitted that military operations in insurgency hit regions such as Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan would not help resolve the real issue and would have lasting effect.

Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the controversial issue of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) is dead has been 'buried forever'.

Kabul, Nov.8 (ANI): Amid growing fears that the Taliban will target UK troops more than the others in the run-up to next May's general election, US President Barack Obama's top commander in Afghanistan,

Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan is pushing the World Bank (WB) to appoint a neutral expert instead of going to the Court of Arbitration on the Kishanganga Hydropower project issue

Quetta (Balochistan), Nov.8 (ANI): At least 17 people, including a student and security personnel were injured in two separate grenade attacks in different parts of Quetta, the capital of the insurgency hit Balochistan province.

London, Nov 8 (ANI): A piece of the first spacecraft to land on the moon is expected to fetch up to 1,200 pounds at an auction on November 14 in Devizes, Wiltshire.

London, Nov.8 (ANI): The British publishing world has been plunged into a new row over sexism after the authoritative Publishers Weekly omitted to include a single female author in its list of the year's top 10 titles.