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Madonna performs during the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana

Queen of Pop

Madonna dazzles in Super Bowl half-time show

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Top Stories today

Vehicles parked on sandy areas in the densely populated Karama area of Dubai

Lack of parking slots drives tenants up the wall

Frustrated Karama residents hunt for parking spaces in other buildings

Workers on a barge off the Palm Jebel Ali operate a crane and help to dump crushed china

Emirates' china to encourage oysters

Discarded Emirates Airline crockery is dumped into the sea off Jebel Ali to create new habitat

Muslims make up around 16 per cent of the 105 million population of Bihar

Muslims help build a Hindu temple in Bihar

Muslims have helped build a Hindu temple dedicated to Durga in Bihar's Gaya district

Knife attack

Black magician stabs man 'to cure illness'

Police arrest a black magician who ruthlessly stabbed a man claiming that it would cure him

A scene from the Iranian film A Separation

Hardliners label Oscar favourite a dirty picture

Regime aides suspect the motives of festival juries in supporting A Separation from Iranian director


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    Sauli Niinistoe, a conservative pro-European who won Finland's presidential election on Sunday, romanced an ex-beauty queen and survived the Indian Ocean tsunami by climbing a tree.










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