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Nightmare honeymoon back to haunt

2:00 AM | Gabe Watson is about to go on trial for the murder of his wife on the Great Barrier Reef. Jennifer Cooke previews the case.

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Sex and the Atlantic City casinos

2:00 AM | Employment practices raise questions about objectifying women, writes Paul McGeough.

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Attack from within

2:00 AM | As the world stands by, Syrians are fighting an increasingly desperate battle, writes Ruth Pollard in Tripoli, Lebanon.

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Army in retreat but still wary to guard its flanks

2:00 AM | The military remains a powerful yet secretive force, writes Hamish McDonald in Rangoon.

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The honeymoon death that led to the pursuit of justice across two continents

2:00 AM | Eight years after a fairytale wedding to his princess bride, Tina, Alabama packaging company salesman Gabe Watson will go on trial for her murder next week.

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As Syria bleeds

2:00 AM | The subdued, early morning, grey-blue sky is mesmerisingly calm on the live webcam that is trained across the rooftops of the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

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Khan bowls over electorate but critics fear his 'dangerous ideas'

2:00 AM | Not for a quarter of a century - since Benazir Bhutto's rapturous return from exile - had anybody even attempted to fill Lahore's massive Minar-e-Pakistan grounds for a political rally.

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Australian entangled in a final act of civil war

10 Feb 12 | MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka: In the frantic confusion of the last hours of the Tamil Tigers' war, some sought a way out. Through text messages and phone calls they offered an unconditional surrender, in return for safe passage out of the war zone.

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'I was kicking and screaming': cameras capture brave Brittney's abduction ordeal

10 Feb 12 | It’s every parent’s worst nightmare and security cameras in a US department store have captured it on tape: the moment a stranger tried to abduct a seven-year-old girl from under her mother’s nose.

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Mills denies giving access to voicemails

10 Feb 12 | Heather Mills, the former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, never authorised former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she has told Britain’s inquiry into press standards.

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Maldives tense as ex-leader faces arrest

10 Feb 12 | MALE, the Maldives: A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for the former president Mohamed Nasheed, who stepped down from power this week but then insisted he had been ousted in a coup.

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$20m aid plan for Afghanistan's poorest people

10 Feb 12 | AUSAID is considering a new strategy for Afghan assistance - spending more than $20 million over the next four years on mainly agricultural projects to assist poor residents in drought-stricken areas and to help strengthen local Afghan non-government organisations, a leaked concept paper shows.

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Tractors may have replaced horses, but country is still decades behind

10 Feb 12 | RANGOON: Last September Burma's economic planners came up with an ingenious scheme to lower the value of the national currency, the kyat, which had pushed up to a level hurting exports, such as beans and rice, and discouraging investment in garments and textiles.

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