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Kim Jong Il dead since 2003: author:North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been dead for years and replaced by a number of look-alikes, a Japanese academic claims.
Monday Sep 8 09:52 AEST

HK opposition wins 22 legislative seats

6 mins ago

Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition has won more than a third of seats in legislative elections, retaining its veto power over major legislation.

Monday Sep 8 09:00 AEST

Kim Jong Il dead since 2003: author

58 mins ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been dead for years and replaced by a number of look-alikes, a Japanese academic claims.

Monday Sep 8 08:00 AEST

'FusionMan' set to jet across English Channel

By ninemsn staff | 1 hours 58 mins ago

A former fighter pilot is set to become the first person to fly across the English Channel with "home-made" jet-powered wings on his back.

Monday Sep 8 07:34 AEST

Ike takes aim at Cuba, 20 dead in Haiti

2 hours 24 mins ago

Hurricane Ike has taken aim at Cuba after leaving 20 people dead in Haiti, where the death toll from a succession of storms in the past few weeks now tops 600.

Monday Sep 8 07:28 AEST

Georgia confident of regaining regions

By Steve Gutterman | 2 hours 30 mins ago

On the eve of an EU shuttle mission, Georgia's president says he is confident of regaining two breakaway provinces with the help of "the rest of the world."

Monday Sep 8 07:26 AEST

$3m ransom for kidnapped Aussie

2 hours 32 mins ago

The kidnappers of an Australian photographer and two other journalists in Somalia are demanding a $US2.5m ($A3.08m) ransom, a traditional chief says.

Monday Sep 8 06:53 AEST

Obama, McCain duel as race gathers pace

By Stephen Collinson | 3 hours 5 mins ago

Barack Obama and John McCain have feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform as their showdown roars into its final stretch.

Monday Sep 8 06:48 AEST

Survivor hope fades after Cairo collapse

By Mona Salem | 3 hours 10 mins ago

Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders are fading, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in a north Cairo shantytown.

Monday Sep 8 06:37 AEST

Bridge collapse isolates Haitian city

3 hours 21 mins ago

A key bridge in Haiti has collapsed cutting off the city of Gonaives from aid, as at least 20 people were killed in the latest hurricane, officials say.

Monday Sep 8 06:01 AEST

Pakistan blast death toll hits 35

By Riaz Khan | 3 hours 57 mins ago

The death toll in a suicide blast in Pakistan has reached 35, officials say, as the country prepares for the Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.

Monday Sep 8 06:00 AEST

Princess Diana's crash car 'to fetch $2.2m'

3 hours 58 mins ago

The owner of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana died are demanding the car wreckage be returned — so they can sell it for up to $2.2 million.

Tsvangirai wants new vote if talks fail

By Godfrey Marawanyika | 3 hours 59 mins ago

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for fresh elections if deadlocked power-sharing talks do not reach a breakthrough.

Monday Sep 8 05:57 AEST

Three more teens charged with teen's murder

Reuters | 4 hours 0 mins ago

Police have charged three more male teenagers with murdering 14-year-old Shaquille Smith in east London last weekend — the 25th teenager to die violently in the capital this year.

Monday Sep 8 05:46 AEST

Britain keeps umbrella killing file open

AFP | 4 hours 12 mins ago

Britain will continue to probe the 30-year-old "umbrella" killing of Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov despite Sofia's formal closure of the file on the infamous murder, Scotland Yard says.

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