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Iran 'unable to take Australians'
By Frank Gardner
BBC News security correspondent
Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.
The incident took place before Iran successfully seized 15 British sailors and Marines in March.
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6228342.stm
Muslim face of the US Marines
By Matthew Wells
BBC News, Hawaii
Navy Lieutenant Commander Abuhena Saifulislam welcomes everyone with a broad smile and prefers to be called "Chaplain Saif". He is the only Muslim chaplain in the elite US Marine Corps, and one of only two in the US Navy overall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6755589.stm
Lake disappears suddenly in Chile Scientists in Chile are investigating the sudden disappearance of a glacial lake in the south of the country.
When park rangers patrolled the area in the Magallanes region in March, the two-hectare (five-acre) lake was its normal size, officials say.
But last month they found a huge dry crater and several stranded chunks of ice that used to float on the water.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6225676.stm
Okinawa anger at textbook plans The Japanese island of Okinawa has reacted furiously to government plans to revise textbook accounts of army activities during World War II.
Okinawa politicians are protesting against a decision to tone down reports that the army ordered civilians to commit mass suicide at the war's end.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6229256.stm
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