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WASHINGTON - The portraits of US First Lady Michelle Obama and business magnate Martha Stewart would be reportedly placed at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
EDINBURGH - A military historian, Matthew Low, has unearthed German propaganda postcard of the First World War which shows how the Kaiser's army demonised Scottish soldiers and Indo-Chinese and Sikhs as savage barbarians.
WASHINGTON - World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello has said that Australians have a "compassion blind spot" when it comes to the Pakistan floods.
NEW DELHI - A Chinese baby, who is just ten months old, has become so chubby that he now weighs the same as a six-year-old child.
LONDON - A British pop singer has apparently killed himself by leaping from a satellite mast.
Charles Haddon, 22, frontman for Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, had just played at the gig in Belgium on Friday.
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