Boy Scout saves Maldives president
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A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said.
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The Quincy Patriot  A PRAISEWORTHY ACT.  Peter Falcon, of Cohasset, Mass. during the late terrible storms, saved the lives of eleven shipwrecked seamen.
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The martial arts star was vacationing in Maldives.
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By MARCUS KABEL  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Fishermen rescued a 5-year-old girl who was thrown into lake before dawn Wednesday, and divers searched the water for another possible victim before determining the child's mother was safe.
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Opposition activists win the two parliamentary seats for the Maldives capital, provisional results show.
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President Putin has rescued a stricken seagull while on holiday at a southern resort, Russian TV reports.
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Â· Survivor plays down talk of heroism Â· Foreign secretary updates casualty figures
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The Thai Navy has rescued hundreds of tourists and other people from the tiny Andaman Sea resort of Koh Phi Phi, after the island made famous by &quot;The Beach&quot; movie
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President creates political firestorm by intervening to stop disgraced White House aide from going to jail.
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When the December 26 tsunami struck Abdul Razzak's island in the Indian Ocean, he remembered what he had seen on National Geographic documentaries&#151;and helped save some 1,500 lives.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unharmed on Sunday when suspected Islamist insurgents hit his presidential compound in Mogadishu with mortar bombs for a second day, one of his aides said.
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The Maldives said on Monday 52 people,  including two British tourists, had drowned in tsunami waves  that struck the Indian Ocean archipelago on Sunday, and has  evacuated six of its 200 inhabited islands completely.
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Mohammed Shaheen, who survived the tsunami that devastated India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, stands outside a relief camp as Christian and Hindu groups argue over who would run it.
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By Andrew Wind, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 13--WATERLOO -- Alonzo Muhammed had three drinking straws, four Lifesavers and a sheet of paper. What he saw, though, was a pair of axles, four wheels and a sail.
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The brother of Sri Lanka's president narrowly escaped with his life when a suspected Tamil rebel suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of Colombo, killing at least one soldier, police said.
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Whatever happened to the president's watch? One moment President Bush was glad-handing Albanians on Sunday, proudly sporting a watch with a dark strap on his left wrist. Moments later, it was gone.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother, who is also the island's defense secretary, narrowly escaped a suspected suicide bomb attack in the capital on Friday, officials said.