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Chance photograph turns Tajik gardener into local celebrity

Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

A city gardens worker in the capital of Tajikistan has become a local celebrity through a chance picture taken by a visiting Romanian photographer. Internet and local TV reports about 19-year-old...

Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge

Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 07:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Researchers have discovered evidence of standing stones believed to be the remnants of a major prehistoric stone monument near the Stonehenge ruins. University of Bradford researchers said Monday...

Watch: Hundreds surge past police near Hungary border, march north

Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 07:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines Monday near Hungary's southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest, while Britain and France pledged...

Pope Francis to release new marriage annulment procedures Tuesday

Monday, 7 September 2015, 15:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Pope Francis on Tuesday will release new streamlined procedures for annulling marriages after he — and thousands of Catholics before him — complained that the church's current system is...

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