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KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man has been sentenced to 28 years jail and eight strokes of the rotan for getting his daughters drunk before raping them.

LONDON - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet amassed a fortune worth 21 million dollars during his rule.

LONDON - Over a million Second World War documents are to go online for the first time. According to the BBC, files from Bletchley Park, the UK's wartime code-breaking headquarters, are to be digitised and put online in a large-scale project expected to take up to five years to complete.

LONDON - Muslim burial plots need to face northeast, with the Prophet Mohammed's birthplace of Mecca to the southeast on their right. And in the UK's Buckinghamshire area, Muslims have paid out 150,000 pounds so that their graves at High Wycombe cemetery in Buckinghamshire to meet this requirement.

LONDON - Italian television could finally be heading in the direction of feminism with the formation of a new anti-sexism watchdog that will crack down on the gratuitous use of young female flesh by state-funded Rai TV.