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Pakistani cricket fans burn posters of their nation's cricket players in Lahore on Tuesday, amid allegations of match-fixing against members of the national team emerged in a British newspaper.
Cricket

If even cricket is corrupt, Pakistan has ‘no more heroes’

With devastating floods, deadly air strikes and now a sports scandal, who can ordinary Pakistanis look up to?

While the U.S. President and his family were away on vacation, workers installed new striped wallpaper, new sofas, reupholstered chairs, new lamps and a coffee table – and a new rug bearing quotes around its borders from famous Americans.
The White House

Oval Office gets No-Drama Obama makeover

It’s comfy, feels more modern, and the border on the carpet features quotations that reveal the President’s personality, designers say

Corporal Brian Pinksen died in hospital Aug. 30, 2010, in Germany after being injured during an explosion in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

Canadian killed after Afghan blast told teacher risks were ‘part of the job’

Corporal Brian Pinksen, a Newfoundlander, dies from injuries a week after bomb blast

The Sri Mariamman Temple,located in the Bang Rak district of Bangkok, is the symbolic centre of the Tamil community scattered around bangkok and its suburbs.
Mark MacKinnon

In Bangkok apartment, Tamils wait for ship to Canada

Though claiming to be tourists, they show little interest in seeing the sights of the Thai capital

South Africa is one of the few African countries to offer women legal abortions.

Ottawa aid helps fund agency that provides illegal abortions in Africa

Money goes to its health services, but group also discreetly performs procedure for desperate women

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Canada’s place is with America, Tony Blair says

Former British PM stresses importance of relationships in wielding influence

Peace talks won’t be derailed by Hamas killing of Jewish settlers, Obama says

Netanyahu calls Abbas his ‘partner in peace’ as Palestinian-Israeli talks launched in Washington

Hurricane Earl barrels toward Eastern Seaboard

Earl's first encounter with the U.S. mainland expected around midnight Thursday with storm forecast to pass just off Cape Hatteras

Hostage taking at U.S. network ends as gunman shot dead by police

Three hostages escape to safety after stand off at the Washington headquarters of The Discovery Channel; records indicate gunman's website registered in B.C.

Bombs kill 18, injure at least 100 in Lahore

Suicide bomber attacks Shia procession in eastern Pakistan

Mozambique police fire at crowds, killing at least 7

Crowds were protesting the rising cost of food, fuel and water

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Broken Europe
Old world new realities

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Mideast Notebook
A ‘prison camp’ with a mall

Life in Gaza appears better than it’s been for years

Geoffrey York's Africa Diary
Rugby conquers racism - again

South Africa has instead witnessed one of the most dramatic gestures of racial reconciliation that it has seen for many years

Stephanie Nolen's Subcontinental
Invoking Indira

Mark MacKinnon's Points East
Google and China go to war

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Fifty years ago, The Globe and Mail became the first Western newspaper to open a bureau in what was then known as Red China.

Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard in front of Tiananmen gate in Beijing, China, Tuesday.