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Markets fall amid consumer worries
Global stocks slump as shoppers stay at home despite falling prices.
Iceland offered economic support
US car makers plead for bailout
Cash-starved Ford sells Mazda stake
Video: Hard times for US car makers
Video: China hit by global slump
Prime minister says Russia's foreign currency and gold reserves "give room for manoeuvre".
Tamil Tiger defensive line in the Jaffna peninsula overrun, military says.
Peace plan adverts target Israelis
Deadly blast at Thai protest site
Al-Zawahiri lashes out at Obama
Somali pirates 'demand $25m ransom'
Rwandan official charged in France
Activists continue N Korea airdrops
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Watchdog calls for tough international action to combat surge in maritime attacks.
Setting aside centuries of tradition, young men and women turn to the web for marriage.
Numbering some 500,000 in the EU, they seek greater political representation.
Baghdad residents say they fuel sectarianism and should have never been built.
Amal Soliman breaks tradition and becomes Islam's first female marriage registrar.