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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched a criminal complaint in France in relation to the publication of pictures of the duchess topless.

Warner said those involved in criminal gangs should lay down their weapons.

A US law enforcement official says a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is behind the anti-Muslim film being blamed for mob attacks in Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

AP: Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in Tuesday's attacks against US diplomatic posts in the Middle East in which US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

WASHINGTON (AP): United States officials say some 50 Marines are being sent to Libya to reinforce security at US diplomatic facilities in the aftermath of an attack in the eastern city of Benghazi that killed the US ambassador and three American members of his staff.

MOSCOW (AP):A plane crashed into a forest early yesterday in Russia's far east, killing 10 people and injuring four, the Emergencies Ministry said. The Antonov-28 plane crash-landed in a cedar forest near the town of Palana in western Kamchatka...

PRAGUE (AP):At least 19 people are dead and 24 others hospitalised.

WASHINGTON (AP):A haze of thick smoke formed yesterday over vast swathes of the West as wildfires forced more residents to flee their homes in several states.Fire officials reported seven homes were destroyed and hundreds of people were evacuated near...

Angry protesters climbed the walls of the US Embassy in Cairo today and hauled down the American flag, apparently in protest of the production of a film thought to insult the Prophet Mohammed.

MARIKANA (AP):Chanting miners wielding machetes, clubs and spears marched from shaft to shaft of South Africa's beleaguered Lonmin platinum mine yesterday, trying to intimidate the few workers who reported for duty in the fourth week of a crippling...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Brazilian news media are reporting that police have found the bodies of six teenagers who disappeared during a visit to a waterfall.Police tell local newspapers that the youth, aged 16 to 19, were found yesterday...

NEW YORK (AP):For the first time, elected officials won't speak at today's ceremony commemorating the September 11 attacks, an occasion that has allowed them a solemn turn in the spotlight.