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Do or Die: Final Campaign Day Dawns for Obama, Romney

After a grueling 18-month battle, the final U.S. campaign day arrived Monday for President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney, two men on a collision course for the world's top job.

The candidates have attended hundreds of rallies, fundraisers and town halls, spent literally billions on attack ads, ground games, and get out the vote efforts, and squared off in three intense debates.

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Tug-of-War Over King Richard III's Bones

A skeleton dug up in a car park has triggered a tug-of-war between two English cities, with the royals, the government and the Church involved -- because the bones are thought to be those of king Richard III.

In September, archaeologists acting on historical records unearthed a skeleton which has clear similarities to descriptions of Richard, who ruled England from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

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Bond Exhibit Opens in Canada as 'Skyfall' Set to Open

He's got gadgets, girls and a great suit. James Bond turns 50, and as the superspy's latest movie "Skyfall" opens in North America this week Toronto hosts the first global stop for the show "Designing 007 -- Fifty Years of Bond Style."

The exhibit, unveiled in London earlier this year, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the 23 films that have fascinated viewers around the world for decades.

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Twitter, Facebook Used to Push Americans to the Polls

Nani Teruya does not vote because she believes the United States is illegally occupying her home state of Hawaii, but people are trying to convince her to go to the polls next week via Google+ and Twitter.

She is one of six non-voters taking part in a CNN project that uses social networks to try and persuade people in Hawaii to cast their ballot in Tuesday's presidential poll, one of many 'get-out-the-vote' initiatives on social media.

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India's Effigy Sculptors Turn to Human Memorial Statues

In a busy sculpture workshop in west India, there is one unfamiliar face alongside the images of divine figures such as Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Hindu goddess Parvati.

This is Ivy, the late beloved wife of 82-year-old Peter Pereira, and she is being commemorated in a life-size bust. The fibreglass figure is the latest example of a growing trend: commissioning memorial sculptures of the dead.

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Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" Scores Big at NAmerican Theaters

Disney's animated romp "Wreck-It Ralph" rang up a phenomenal weekend at North American box offices, taking in $49.1 million -- almost double the number-two film, figures showed Sunday.

The premiere of Disney's movie, which sees a video game villain try to become a hero, almost doubled the business of another hot premiere, Denzel Washington's "Flight," about a troubled pilot.

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Sudanese Bin Laden-Linked Islamist Wants Obama Win

Sudan's veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, linked to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, hopes U.S. President Barack Obama will win a second term on Tuesday.

"Obama of course," Turabi told Agence France Presse when asked about his U.S. presidential preference during an interview.

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Indian Wardens Bang Drums to Halt Peeing in Public

Volunteers in India armed with drums and whistles are to lead a crackdown on going to the toilet in public under a new scheme in the western state of Rajasthan, a report said Monday.

"We are constructing public toilets... and people will be encouraged to use them," Ramniwas Jat, head of the state's Jhunjhunu district council, told the Times of India.

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22 Dead, Thousands Displaced in Southern India Floods

Torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have killed at least 22 people and displaced tens of thousands of villagers over the past week, an official said Monday.

Downpours triggered by a cyclone that hit the coast near Chennai last week left hundreds of villages inundated and 60,000 people in relief camps, Karikal Valaven, a government officer overseeing emergency operations, told Agence France Presse.

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Israeli Troops Kill Man on Gaza Border

A Palestinian man apparently suffering psychiatric problems was killed by Israeli troops after he approached Gaza's border fence, Palestinian medical sources said on Monday.

The 20-year-old man, named as Ahmed al-Nabaheen, was injured on Sunday evening, but the Israeli army refused to allow Palestinian ambulances to the scene to transport him, the medics said.

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