July 20, 2009 Monday
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BERLIN - TEN people were left fighting for their lives and dozens more were injured after a 260-car pile-up on a German motorway caused by a thunderous downpour, police said on Monday.

 
Queen counts her swans

WINDSOR (England) - QUEEN Elizabeth II watched for the first time on Monday as her staff began the annual job of counting her swans.

10k more UK higher edu places

LONDON - THE government said on Monday it would make an extra 10,000 higher education places available this year and would cut the length of time students can offset the repayment of their education loans to help foot the bill.

Do 'everything' to free soldier

WASHINGTON - US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton slammed the capture of a US soldier by Taliban forces in Afghanistan as 'outrageous' and vowed to do 'everything we can' to free him, in an interview aired Monday.

'We are attempting to do everything we can to locate him and free him,' Clinton, on a visit to India, told US television network ABC in New Delhi.

   
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