31/05/2011
Libya military defections, French diet battle, Australia suspends cow exports to Indonesia
- Libyan General Salah Giuma Yahmed said more than a hundred military officers have defected, and that meant Gadaffi's forces could no longer prop up the regime
- Two leading French slimming gurus will be battling it out in court over whether or not a new, hugely popular diet, really is a good and healthy way to lose weight
- The Australian government has partially suspended the live export of cattle to Indonesia, after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast harrowing footage of the treatment of animals in the country's abatoirs
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