One of Mr Assange's supporters, Vaughan Smith, whose home he stayed at for more than a year, addressed the court on behalf of the nine.

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The magistrate agreed to grant bail Tuesday after Vaughan Smith, a former British army officer who founded a popular London journalist haunt called the Frontline Club, testified that Assange could stay at his mansion in Suffolk, northeast of London.

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While Facebook is the number one site U.S. mobile users spend time on line, mobile usage of the social network is even higher in most emerging markets, Facebook Vice President of corporate development Vaughan Smith said at the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley in San Jose on Friday.

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Mr Vaughan-Smith expects banks that run the numbers to find an equity injection will work out cheaper than taking a hit to their broader bond positions.

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The area first became known to Europeans when Joseph Wild, James Vaughan and Charles Throsby Smith discovered the Limestone Plains upon which modern-day Canberra is sited.

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With openers Smith and Neil McKenzie leaving anything off their stumps, Vaughan turned to talisman Flintoff for inspiration.

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