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- Up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors and militants, a leaked UN report says. - Thousands of Greek workers are expected to bring the country to a halt with a second strike in a month over austerity measures. - Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn.
- Barack Obama warns that the crisis in quake-hit Haiti is not over, as he meets the country's President, Rene Preval. - Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in as president, with a major post-earthquake rebuilding effort ahead of him. - Former rebels in DR Congo, now in the army, are running mafia-style extortion rackets in mines, campaigners say. - The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body. - Police say 49 people are to be charged with murder following communal violence that left scores of Nigerian villagers dead. - Italy signs a deal with Google to put online the contents of its two national libraries, including works by Dante and Galileo. - An Israeli supermarket chain uses spoof surveillance footage, parodying that of the alleged assassins of a Hamas commander in Dubai, in a TV advert. - An elephant in a Sydney zoo shocks vets by giving birth to a live baby elephant who appears to have survived labour in a coma in the womb. - Lyon draw 1-1 in the Bernebau to earn a 2-1 aggregate win over Real Madrid. - Wayne Rooney scores twice in another irresistible display as Manchester United ease into the Champions League quarter-finals at AC Milan's expense. - Beijing's silent invasion of electric bicycles - Challenges ahead for new president in quake-hit Chile
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