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TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libya’s new masters have offered  a million-dollar bounty for the fugitive Muammar Gaddafi, after  he urged his men to fight on in battles across parts of the  capital.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Powerful Hurricane Irene  battered the Bahamas yesterday on a track to the North  Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely  populated U.S.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – A scheme training Filipino  women to efficiently run neighbourhood stores grabbed top prize  at an global U.N.-sponsored

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – A political scandal involving a  government MP over payments to prostitutes, which threatens  Australia’s minority government,  deepened on Wednesday when the  lawmaker’s former union asked police to investigate his union  credit card bills.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela received an enviable  honor last month: OPEC said it is sitting on the biggest  reserves of crude oil in the world — even more than Saudi  Arabia.

LIMA, (Reuters) – A strong earthquake struck a  remote Amazon region of Peru yesterday, shaking buildings  far away in the capital and in neighboring Brazil, although no  injuries or damage were reported.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Injecting a bacteria into  mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and  help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually  in more than 100 countries, scientists said.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – One day after a magazine  claimed that their marriage was in trouble, Hollywood super  couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith appeared together in  public on Wednesday, smiling broadly for cameras and fans.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The organizers of a  controversial Michael Jackson Tribute concert said on Tuesday  they were going ahead with the event, but they offered  disgruntled fans the chance to air their concerns in a global  conference call.

PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – British pop star George Michael  returned to the stage late on Monday for an emotional  performance at the opulent Prague State Opera where he announced  his split from long-term partner Kenny Goss.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – For Shafiq Sheikh, the irony is  tragic. Sheikh, who acted in the spoof film “Ye Hai Malegaon Ka  Superman” about an Indian super-hero who saves his town from a  tobacco-loving villain, is himself suffering from mouth cancer  caused by his incessant tobacco habit.

A spire atop the Washington National Cathedral shows damage following an earthquake along the eastern United States yesterday.

 WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A strong earthquake rattled  the U.S. East Coast yesterday, sending tremors as far as  Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation’s capital  and sending scared office workers into the streets. 

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – The United States put its  eastern seaboard on alert for Hurricane Irene yesterday, as  the powerful storm barreled up from the Caribbean on a path  that could hit the U.S.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A political crisis in Brazil  is starting to careen out of control as new allegations of  graft surface almost daily and President Dilma Rousseff looks  increasingly like a bystander with little ability to keep the  fallout from spreading to the economy.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique  Strauss-Kahn had consensual sex with the hotel maid who accused  him of sexual assault, his defense lawyer said yesterday,  adding that their comparative sizes would have ruled out a  forcible encounter.  

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – A son of Muammar Gaddafi who  rebels said they had captured appeared with cheering supporters  in Tripoli, giving a boost to forces loyal to the veteran leader  trying to fight off insurgents who say they control most of the  capital.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York prosecutors asked a  judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF  chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday, a stunning reversal  that could revive the political future of a man many had seen  as the next president of France.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. songwriter Nickolas  Ashford, who penned such rhythm and blues hits as “Ain’t No  Mountain High Enough” and “I’m Every Woman” with his wife  Valerie Simpson, died on Monday at age 70.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – In July 2010, U.S. investor  Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom believed they were  just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark forest  preservation project in Indonesia.