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Electronic Arts has announced that it will showcase five Xbox 360 launch titles at Microsoft's X05 event in Amsterdam today and tomorrow, and has named thre...

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Australia raids

About 500 officers took part in the raids early on Tuesday, in the country's largest ever counter-terrorism operation.

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Australia raids

Sixteen people were arrested and chemicals, weapons and computers seized from the 23 homes raided.

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Australia raids

Vehicles were searched near where one of the suspects was shot and wounded in a Sydney street.

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Australia raids

Bomb squad officers said a remote-controlled robot had found a gun in a backpack worn by the suspect.

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Australia raids

New South Wales police chief Ken Moroney said a "potentially catastrophic attack" had been averted.

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Australia raids

The suspects were charged in court with offences including membership of a "terrorist organisation".

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Australia raids

Prosecutors said chemicals had been found of the kind used in the London Underground bombings.

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Australia raids

Media strained to get pictures of the suspects, among them outspoken Algerian-Australian cleric Abu Bakr.

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Liberia votes

Liberians have been voting in the second round of presidential elections.

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Liberia votes

After the 22 first round candidates were whittled down to two, they are choosing between football star George Weah...

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Liberia votes

... And economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf bidding to become Africa's first female elected head of state.

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Liberia votes

The queues are shorter than in the first round - and better organised. Here, voters are waiting under the roof of a football stadium and not outside as last time.

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Liberia votes

The 15,000 UN peacekeepers in Liberia are keeping a close eye on the vote - so far no violence has been reported.

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Liberia votes

Those unable to vote on their own - whether disabled or illiterate - are being given a helping hand.

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Liberia votes

Most schools have been turned into polling stations - highlighting the poor shape of Liberia's infrastructure.

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AP - Wed Nov 9,12:17 PM ET
This photo supplied by Guinness World Records shows Edd China talking to a shopper while driving his way into Guinness World Records book in Henley-upon-Thames, England,Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, after engineering what the book calls the largest motorized shopping cart in the world. The 11.4 feet tall, 9.8 feet long and 5.9 feet wide cart was created to celebrate the book's self-proclaimed first ever Guinness World Records Day on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2005. Edd is also currently featured in the Guinness World Records 2006 edition book for his record for the World's Fastest Sofa.(AP Photo/Guinness World Records/Tim Anderson)

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AP - Tue Nov 8,10:28 PM ET
A chocolatier decorates a dress with chocolate at the 8th annual Chocolate Fashion Show in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree)

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AFP - Wed Nov 9, 3:58 PM ET
Coryphella Pedata : A sea slug from the Flabellinidae family hangs on a piece of an Eudendrium in the depth of Mediterranean sea near Fethiye, Turkey. (AFP/Tarik Tinazay)

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AFP - Wed Nov 9, 4:05 PM ET
Trying out the ice : The shadow of an ice hockey player is reflected on the ice during Torino Ice 2005 Ice Hockey Tournament preliminary group A game between France and Austria at the new Olympic Palasport. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte)

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AFP - Wed Nov 9, 4:11 PM ET
Stormy weather in the suburbs : A view of the Vernes' housing development, a poor neighbourhood outside of Givors, near Lyon. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)

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