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Ram Rahim Singh: India guru jailed for life over journalist's murderRam Rahim Singh: India guru jailed for life over journalist's murder
Image copyrightAFPImage caption Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is already serving a 20-year prison sentence for rape

An Indian guru has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a journalist who exposed sexual abuse of women at his sect.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the 51-year-old Dera Sacha Sauda leader, is already

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Hewitt: I've been threatened by TomicHewitt: I've been threatened by Tomic
Lleyton Hewitt (left) was named Australia's Davis Cup captain in October 2015

Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt claims he has been threatened "physically" and "blackmailed" by his former team-mate Bernard Tomic.

Hewitt, 37, said he and "close-knit family" had received threats directly from the world number 88 over the past "year and a

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Cai Dongjia: China's 'godfather of crystal meth' executedCai Dongjia: China's 'godfather of crystal meth' executed
Image:Footage shows police raiding homes in Boshe village

The former Communist Party chief of a Chinese village once notorious for its drug production has been executed, Chinese state media report.

Chinese media have described him as the "godfather of the village" who protected all its drug makers.

About 20% of the village's households had been

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Aiia Maasarwe: Israel student killed in Melbourne while on phone with sisterAiia Maasarwe: Israel student killed in Melbourne while on phone with sister
Image copyrightVictoria PoliceImage caption Police released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed

A 21-year-old Israeli student was attacked and killed in Melbourne, Australia while speaking to her sister on the phone, police say.

The body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near La Trobe

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Zhao Ziyang: A reformer China's Communist Party wants to forgetZhao Ziyang: A reformer China's Communist Party wants to forget
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In a small, central Beijing courtyard, family and friends are gathering to pay tribute to Zhao Ziyang - the most powerful man in China to oppose the decision to send tanks into Tiananmen Square nearly 30 years ago.

He was subsequently erased from Chinese history for what party officials deemed his "serious mistakes" that

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Indonesian woman mauled to death by giant pet crocodileIndonesian woman mauled to death by giant pet crocodile
Image:The 4.4m-long reptile was thought to have been kept illegally at a pearl farm

A woman has been mauled to death by a pet crocodile in its enclosure on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Deasy Tuwo, 44, had reportedly been feeding the crocodile at the pearl farm where she worked, and where the animal was being kept illegally.

The 700kg crocodile,

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