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Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco said it and US peer Alcoa have bought a 12-percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, setting up a possible takeover tussle with ri-val BHP Billiton.
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In Ethiopia a summit of African Union leaders shifted its attention from the crisis in Kenya to Chad, with delegates voicing fears of a major conflict that could scupper peace ef-forts in Sudan.
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Hundreds of Hamas supporters protested on the breached Gaza-Egypt border to demand it remain open, while Egyptian troops poured cement and laid down metal spikes in a new attempt to halt the influx of Gazans.
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Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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In Iraq 2 female suicide bombers blew themselves up in separate attacks on Baghdad pet bazaars, killing at least 68 people and wounding dozens. The attacks were the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since 30,000 more American troops flooded into the center of the country last spring. The next day officials raised the death toll to at least 99
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Scientists in Japan and New Zealand said they have created a "tear-free" onion using biotechnology to switch off the gene behind the enzyme that makes us cry.
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The US promised Kazakhstan to help it bring its armed forces up to NATO stan-dards in a new military cooperation pact certain to irritate Russia.
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Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
1989 –
Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1987 –
Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1986 –
Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1985 –
Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
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Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
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Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1984 –
Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 –
Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1983 –
Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
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February, 1
- Births
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2008,
Beto Carrero, Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer (b. 1937)
2007,
Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007,
Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007,
Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2007,
Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007,
Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2006,
Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006,
Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2005,
John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2004,
May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
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February, 1
- Deaths
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