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  1. Call for mass rally after #Mubarak verdict bit.ly/Lsf7cp about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. Fifteen die in #Syria near Turkish border bit.ly/K8vnPy about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
  3. China 'arrests Tiananmen activists' bit.ly/KJHFAZ about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
  4. Portugal injects $A8.4b into three banks bit.ly/K8eKnh about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck
  5. Car bomb kills 13 in Baghdad bit.ly/LfAKe6 about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
  6. Abbott says #carbon tax will add pressure as the Australian #economy 'faces perilous times' bit.ly/L6Jh4y about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
  7. Nigeria began three days of mourning after a plane carrying 153 people crashed with all those aboard presumed dead bit.ly/KvIGNX about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  8. Plane wreckage found in NSW northwest bit.ly/M3bmJc about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  9. In Rwanda, urbanisation chases the poor out of town bit.ly/NygQyI about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  10. Government calls for talks as #boat arrivals increase bit.ly/K8QnUs about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
  11. Aussie shares close at six-month low bit.ly/LYnhIX about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
  12. Amazing images of the site where a plane carrying 153 people plummeted to the ground into Nigeria's largest city bit.ly/M2Z2wC about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck
  13. Bus crash kills 23 in Pakistan bit.ly/KWVv0R about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck
  14. Brazil farmers in feud with Monsanto over #GM soy bit.ly/KveAKK about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  15. 'Free #Tiananmen prisoners', US tells #China bit.ly/MaX7p2 about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  16. More than $A20 billion wiped from stock market bit.ly/NxMAUA about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck
  17. Are you a "zookeeper" or a "social creator"? How your smartphone use reveals your personality, according to a new study bit.ly/Leb3uq about 15 hours ago via web
  18. Seinfeld actor sorry for calling cricket 'gay' bit.ly/JMLUfx about 16 hours ago via web
  19. Australian shares open sharply down bit.ly/JMLUfx about 16 hours ago via web