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      <StoryHeadline>Zuma 'shocked by white poverty'</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>The head of South Africa's governing ANC party, Jacob Zuma, says he is shocked by white poverty in the country.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Obama seeks stronger Europe ties</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Barack Obama tells Berliners the US and Europe have drifted apart and it is time for them to come together again.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>S African named UN rights chief</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>The South African judge Navanethem Pillay is nominated as the new UN high commissioner for human rights.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>How to disappear without a trace</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>John Darwin and his wife Anne have been jailed after faking his death-by-drowning for £250,000 in insurance pay-outs. How and why do people go about vanishing?</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Libya 'halts Swiss oil shipments'</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Libya's state shipping company says it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest over the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi's son.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Day in pictures</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Some of the most striking images from around the world on Thursday 24 July 2008.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Zimbabweans 'start crisis talks'</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Zimbabwe's ruling and opposition parties begin power-sharing talks in South Africa, officials say.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>US cancer boss in mobiles warning</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>The director of a top US cancer research institute warns thousands of staff of possible risks from mobile phone use.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>NZ judge orders 'odd' name change</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>A judge in New Zealand makes Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii a ward of court so she can change her name.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Mosley wins court case over orgy</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won his legal action against a newspaper over reports of a Nazi-style orgy.</StorySummary>
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