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The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has become the first man to retain both the Olympics sprint titles. He won gold in the men's 200m final in London. He had already won the men's 100m race on Sunday. It's his 5th gold medal overall.
Look at Bolt gold. It's a three-meter lead. He is coming to the homestretch . He comes the record, running it down. B* and catch him. God, he is gonna do it again. What's the job, 19.32. Gold on the way, not just a silver.
Earlier, the Kenyan athlete David Rudisha won the men's 800m final in the new world record time 1:40.91. A wave from the track, British Nicola Adams became the first Olympic women's boxing champion. And in the lightweight category, Ireland's Kitty Taylor won her country's first gold medal of the Games. But Afghanistan's most promising Olympic competitor Rohullah Nikpah lost in the quarter finals of taekwondo .
Reports from the Syrian city of Aleppo say that the main force of rebel fighters has withdrawn from their key stronghold there after more heavy bombardment from government forces. Our Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher reports.
It may only be temporary but for the moment, the Syrian rebels have pulled out their fighters from Salah al-Din district in Aleppo. Reporters on the ground confirmed what both the Free Syrian Army and the government have said about the pullout. The district has in recent days become the focus of the key battles so far in the Syrian conflict for control of the country's second city. Videos and photographs have shown the devastation wrecked in the area by the fighting. The rebels say it's a tactical withdrawal and they still hold other positions in the city. But these are coming under heavy attack too.
The internet company Google has agreed to pay $22.5m to settle allegation that it broke its privacy pledge to customers using the Safari web browser. It's the biggest fine the US Federal Trade Commission has ever imposed. Paul Adams reports.
The Federal Trade Commission launched its investigation after it emerged that Google despite earlier pledges had overridden the safeguards on its Safari web browser allowing advertisements to be shown to users and outside parties to monitor user's activity without their consent. Google maintained and still does that its actions were unintentional. An argument which dose not disappear to have impressed the regulator.
Australia's Race Discrimination commissioner Helen Szoke has urged the social networking company Facebook to remove a page depicting Aboriginal people in Australia as drunks and welfare cheats. The Australian government has accused Facebook of using its US base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws. The page was removed briefly on Wednesday but reappeared later with the label 'controversial humor'. In a statement, Facebook acknowledged the public concern but said it believed that sharing information invited debate and greater understanding.
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The interim government in Mali has said that military action in the north of the country is inevitable after Islamists cut off the hand of a man they said was a thief. The statement said the public amputation was a new vile act by Islamists who have taken control of the north. Meanwhile, officials from the West African bloc Eocowas have started talks with the African Union and the United Nations in the Malian capital Bamako on a possible military intervention and taking the north back.
The United States has launched a clean-up operation in Vietnam to help rid the country of chemicals sprayed on the country's jungles during the war 50 years ago. Dioxin left from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange has sipped into Vietnam's soil and water courses. Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.
The area, where this work has started, is a small just a corner of the airfield in Danang one of principal US airbases during the Vietnam war where Agent Orange was stored. But it is symbolically important. 51 years after US forces began spraying Agent Orange and other defoliants to deny Vietnamese Communist force's shelter in the country's forests. This is the first time the US government has agreed to run a project to neutralize the effects of the chemicals which are the suspected cause of millions of birds defects.
The Lebanese authorities have detained a former cabinet minister Michel Samaha, who has been outspoken in his support for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Lebanese media reports suggest that his arrest is connected to a seizure of explosives that may have been intended for use in north of Lebanon.
Prosecutors in Vienna have charged the former Austrian interior minister Ernst Strasser with corruption. Mr. Strasser was forced to resign as a member of the European parliament in March last year after a British newspaper alleged that he had accepted offers of $120,000 from one of his undercover reporters in return for proposing amendments to EU laws. Mr. Strasser, who denies the charges, was exposed by the Sunday Times along with two other parliamentarians. If convicted, he could face up to ten years in prison.
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