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Helicopter ‘was not shot down’

Tbilisi Irakli Okruashvili, the Georgian Defence Minister, said that he was on board a helicopter shot over the separatist province of South Ossetia. The aircraft was damaged but landed safely. The South Ossetian government had said that a Georgian Interior Ministry helicopter was shot down after its crew failed to respond. (AP)

Migrants flood in

Madrid Spanish police intercepted 1,196 Africans en route to the Canary Islands at the weekend. The number held in August was higher than for all 2005, and Spain is to hold a south European conference on the situation. (AP)

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Blind ‘see’ again

Sydney Scientists from the Bionic Eye Foundation at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney say early tests have succeeded in stimulating limited visual sensation in people suffering a rare form of genetic blindness. (AFP)