Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones walks to a news conference where he announced the burning of the korans will continues as planned

We will burn hundreds of copies of the Koran, insists Florida church

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A Russian circus touring Australia dropped an act in which a performer swallows a live fish then regurgitates it after complaints that it was in poor taste and inhumane.

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Daniel Howden: The UN has been urged to go back to basics in protecting civilians in Eastern Congo after admitting that 500 rapes in the space of a single month amounted to a serious failure in its mission



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