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Sunday October 28, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 22
 
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Bhutto braves threats, arrives in hometown

Benazir Bhutto arrived in her ancestral village today amid tight security in her first public trip in Pakistan since suicide bombers shattered her homecoming parade. Several thousand people clapped and chanted “Benazir” as the former premier arrived in a bullet-proof jeep at the village in a remote corner of southern Pakistan and immediately entered her family's mausoleum.

 
Rocking party at 40,000 feet

SINGAPORE: Thomas Lee on Thursday became one of the first passengers aboard the world's largest commercial aircraft - again. In 1970, at the age of 17, Lee rode with his family on the inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet from New York to London aboard Pan Am's "Clipper Victor." This week he travelled with his wife and daughter to Singapore to be part of history a second time, joining the maiden flight ......

 
Vietnam is having Paris Hilton moment
Vietnam is having a Paris Hilton moment. An online sex video featuring a popular celebrity has riveted the nation for more than a week now, much as Hilton's clip seized the attention of Americans when it hit the Internet several years ago. But unlike Hilton, the 19-year-old woman at the center of Vietnam's sex scandal won't be able to capitalize on her newfound notoriety.

   
Miss England told to fatten up
   
India TV channels pulled after massacre expose: Reports
   
   
President's wife poised to take power in Argentina
   
Bank pushes Mumbai's prostitutes to save
   
Why Turkish army will stay home
   
America's self-defeating hegemony
   
Arctic scramble
   
Firefighters start beating back California blazes
   

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