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Hurricane Ida strengthened off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as it makes its way to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Sunday.

Sydney, Nov 8 (DPA) Releasing Tamils from camps and reintegrating them into Sri Lankan society would help staunch the flow of asylum seekers crossing the Indian Ocean, Australia Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

Canberra (Australia), Nov.8 (ANI): Sri Lankans are using the civil war as an excuse to seek asylum abroad, the country's high commissioner to Australia has claimed.

Peshawar, Nov 8 (IANS) The city mayor was among 12 people who were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber struck at a bustling livestock market close to this Pakistan frontier city, less than a fortnight after a massive bomb blast killed over 110 people here.

Dhaka, Nov 8 (IANS) A plan to attack the US embassy here was hatched in Pakistan by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Bangladeshi investigators have said. Other missions on the terror target-list were believed to be the high commissions of India and Britain, said officials.

Melbourne, Nov 8 (IANS) 'Lightning fast buck', 'the fastest gun in the market' and 'high tech trader' are some of the phrases being used by the Australian media to describe the mercurial rise of a derivatives trading whiz-kid, Dinesh 'Danny' Bhandari.

Cairo (Egypt), Nov 8(ANI): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that China is not courting Africa to satisfy its booming need for energy.

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.

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.

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.

Sydney, Nov. 7 (ANI): Hundreds of Indian students studying in Australia have been left in the lurch, with the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group closing down four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.

Mogadishu, Nov 7 (DPA) Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death in the port town of Marka for committing adultery, officials said.

Sydney, Nov 7 (DPA) A Qantas Airways passenger jet flying from Sydney to Los Angeles was forced to return to Australia because of a faulty fuel pump, news reports said Saturday.

Port-of-Spain, Nov 6 (IANS) The Trinidad and Tobago police have found pages of the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita soaked in millions of dollars worth of liquid cocaine in a laboratory in Couva, Central Trinidad.

London, Nov 6 (IANS) Former minister Jagdish Tytler was dropped from the Indian delegation for the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay in London last week, Sikh groups said after a British MP asked Scotland Yard to arrest him for his role in the 1984 Sikh massacre.

Melbourne, Nov 6 (ANI): In the Higgins by-election in Australia, a party backed by porn stars, called the Australian Sex Party, is sure that it will land a place in the Parliament.

Melbourne, Nov 6 (IANS) Indians were among the over 2,000 foreign students who were left in the lurch - some with barely two weeks to go before they get their degrees - following the overnight collapse of four private colleges in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

Melbourne, Nov 6 (IANS) Over 2,000 international students, including those from India, were left in the lurch - some with barely two weeks to go before they get their degrees - following the sudden overnight collapse of four private colleges in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

Dhaka, Nov 5 (IANS) At least 285 people have died in internecine fights between Bangladesh's left extremist groups that take their orders from 'dons' in India, it was reported here Thursday.