#1 — BBC | El Salvador police find barrel stuffed with $9m
Police in El Salvador have found a plastic barrel stuffed with $9m (£5.8m) of suspected drug money on a farm in the centre of the country.
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#2 — BBC | Germany agrees to extend nuclear plant life span
Germany’s coalition government has decided to extend the life span of the country’s nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.
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#3 — CNN | American Muslims nervous about Ramadan’s end coinciding with 9/11
For Muslims, the end of the holy month of Ramadan is typically cause for celebration, with three days of feasting and socializing after a month of daytime fasting.
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#4 — Fox | The New Police Car Posse
Are you good at spotting Ford Crown Victoria police cars before they spot you? Well, its going out of production and a new crop of cruisers is angling to grab a slice of the “pull over and get out of the car please” pie. Here’s a look at the major players that may be coming to a rearview mirror near you.
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#5 — NY Times | Floods in Pakistan Carry the Seeds of Upheaval
THATA SIAL, Pakistan — When the governor of Punjab Province arrived recently in this small town with truckloads of relief goods for flood victims, his visit was as much a political mission as a humanitarian one. His message to the hundred or so displaced people gathered under an awning was that the government was there for them.
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#6 — DM | My living hell in the dungeon
For more than eight years she was held captive in an underground dungeon, at the mercy of a deranged kidnapper who called her ‘my slave’.
Today, for the first time, kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch reveals the horror of her ordeal in full, from the moment she was snatched from the street as a ten-year-old.
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#7 — Independent | ‘Smarter’ student immigration controls promised
Immigration minister Damian Green will promise today “smarter” controls on entry to the UK, as he releases research showing that tens of thousands of people admitted on student visas were still in the country five years later.
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#8 — Independent | Roma, pensions and a funding scandal besiege Sarkozy
The three issues which could make or break the remainder of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency – pension reform; sleaze allegations and his campaign against Roma migrants – threaten to coalesce explosively in protest marches all over France tomorrow.
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#9 — Telegraph | God no longer male, Scottish Episcopal Church rules
A new order of service produced by the Scottish Episcopal Church has caused controversy by removing masculine references to God.
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#10 — Telegraph | Fears over ‘break up’ of Belgium
A woman tipped as a future prime minister of Belgium has warned its citizens to ‘get ready for the break-up’ of the country following the failure of the latest talks to form a new government.
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