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A UK government will now be urgently warning all governments who may have bought devices such as the ADE651 and GT200 as they are "wholly ineffective" at detecting bombs and explosives, the British Foreign Office has told the BBC.
The UK government has announced a ban on the export to Iraq and Afghanistan of some so-called "bomb detectors," which are also used in the deep south provinces of Thailand.
Hong Kong - The office of Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said Sunday it was investigating pictures on Facebook of teenagers goofing around in Hong Kong's high-security Government House.
US district court has delayed until March the sentence against a Los Angeles film-making couple convicted of bribing ex-Thai tourism chief to run a Bangkok film festival.
Washington - A strong earthquake hit deep under the Pacific Ocean offshore northern California Saturday afternoon, interrupting power, shaking homes and cracking ceilings but causing no reported human injuries.
The White House warned of an attempted terrorist attack after an international airline passenger allegedly tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit by setting off an explosive device, US media reported on Friday.
Washington - Los Angeles police were investigating the death of US actress Brittany Murphy at age 32, and the coroner plans to carry out an autopsy, People magazine reported Sunday.
The leaders of the world's biggest economies reached what even its authors described as an insufficient deal aimed at slowing global warming after 11th-hour discussions in Copenhagen early Saturday.
Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was bloodied and knocked to the ground by an attacker shortly after a political meeting in the Italian city of Milan on Sunday.
The master of ceremonies at the nightclub was cracking jokes late on Friday, surrounded by hundreds of people eating sushi and dancing with drinks in hand, when a pyrotechnic display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with twigs.
Washington - US President Barack Obama's new strategy for the conflict in Afghanistan has drawn sharp criticism from both opposition Republicans and within the ranks of his own Democrats.