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03/11/2010
Biden tries to ease Mid-East row
US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli ...
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03/11/2010
Greeks stage fresh general strike
Public and transport services grind to a halt in Greece as workers stage a third strike in protest ...
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03/11/2010
Mexican shakes up world rich list
Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich ...
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03/11/2010
Bosnian war leader granted bail
Ex-Bosnian president Ejup Ganic, who faces war crimes allegations, has been given bail by London's ...
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03/11/2010
Nigeria survivors describe massacre
Survivors of violence in central Nigeria on Sunday have been telling the BBC what happened.
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03/11/2010
Chile's new leader to be sworn in
Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in as president, with a major post-earthquake ...
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03/11/2010
Japan opens 98th national airport
Japan opens an airport in Ibaraki offering just one flight a day, sparking criticism over wasteful ...
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03/11/2010
Ukraine president forms coalition
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament, and one of his loyalists ...
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03/10/2010
Google to scan old Italian books
Italy signs a deal with Google to put online the contents of its two national libraries, including ...
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03/11/2010
Feathers fly: Bank of America sorry for confiscating parrot
Bank of America has apologised to a woman in Pennsylvania after one of its contractors entered her ...
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03/10/2010
Israel supermarket uses parody film of Dubai assassins in advert
An Israeli supermarket chain uses spoof surveillance footage, parodying that of the alleged ...
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03/11/2010
Beckham lauds 'world best' Rooney
David Beckham hails Wayne Rooney as one of the world's best players after he fires Man Utd into the ...
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03/10/2010
Real crash out of Champions League
Lyon draw 1-1 in the Bernebau to earn a 2-1 aggregate win over Real Madrid.
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03/09/2010
Can US broker Middle East peace?
Joe Biden is in the region to encourage talks between the Palestinians and Israel. What can be ...
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09/29/2009
BBC World News
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03/10/2010
Powered pedal
Beijing's silent invasion of electric bicycles
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03/10/2010
Mardell's America
'Open carry' activists do weekly shop with a gun
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03/11/2010
Farming future
The dawning age of the agricultural automatons
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03/10/2010
Money man
A look at Mexican Carlos Slim - the world's richest man
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03/11/2010
Your pictures
Your pictures of the week on the theme of impressions
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01/20/2010
Earth Watch
Will review of UN climate change body be unbiased?
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03/11/2010
World airline sector 'recovering'
The global airline industry will recover strongly this year, as passenger and freight numbers ...
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03/11/2010
BP to explore for oil in Brazil
Oil giant BP announces a $7bn (£4.7bn) deal that will allow it to begin exploring for oil off the ...
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03/11/2010
China inflation at 16-month high
Chinese inflation hit a 16-month high in February, leading to calls for the government to take ...
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03/11/2010
'Console killer' launches in June
A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games ...
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03/10/2010
Mobile phone allows boss to snoop
Mobile technology that could allow prying bosses to monitor every movement of their staff is ...
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03/10/2010
Sony shows off motion controller
Sony reveals details about its new motion controller the PlayStation Move, as a contender to market ...
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03/11/2010
Corey Haim was 'tormented soul'
Lost Boys actor Corey Haim was a "tormented soul", his friend and fellow actor Corey Feldman says.
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03/11/2010
Taio Cruz scales Billboard chart
R&B star Taio Cruz sets the record for the biggest jump to the top of US Billboard Hot 100 for an ...
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03/10/2010
Scientists to review climate body
The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate ...
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03/10/2010
EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban
EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks ...
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03/10/2010
GPs 'lax' on cholesterol targets
Many lives could be saved if GPs followed guidelines for reducing cholesterol in those at high risk ...
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03/11/2010
Gambia row over wave of arrests
An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why ...
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03/10/2010
DR Congo mines 'hit by extortion'
Former rebels in DR Congo, now in the army, are running mafia-style extortion rackets in mines, ...
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03/10/2010
Haiti situation 'dire', Obama says
Barack Obama warns that the crisis in quake-hit Haiti is not over, as he meets the country's ...
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03/11/2010
Lula criticised for Cuba comment
Brazil's President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on ...
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03/11/2010
Burma election laws condemned
Burma's election laws provoke widespread condemnation, as Aung San Suu Kyi's 1990 poll win is ...
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03/11/2010
Japan protest over tuna ban plan
Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU ...
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03/10/2010
EU leader 'pities' UKIP's Farage
EU president Herman Van Rompuy says he pities Nigel Farage, the British Eurosceptic MEP who called ...
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03/11/2010
Cartoonist plot arrests extended
Seven people are remanded in custody for a further 72 hours in the Irish Republic over an alleged ...
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03/11/2010
Hamas release British journalist
Hamas release a British journalist, Paul Martin, accused of spying and jailed for a month in the ...
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03/10/2010
Egypt's top cleric dies aged 81
Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of ...
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03/11/2010
Afghan plea for 'no proxy wars'
Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai ...
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03/11/2010
Afghan police drug abuse 'rife'
Drug abuse is rife in the Afghan police force with up to 40% of recruits testing positive in some ...
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03/11/2010
Police 'risk public confidence'
Police failures to tackle anti-social behaviour risk public confidence, says the chief inspector of ...
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03/11/2010
Four due in court over expenses
Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their ...
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03/11/2010
Failed 'mercy killing' wife dies
A woman convicted of trying to kill her husband in what she said was an attempted "mercy killing" ...
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03/11/2010
John Lewis staff get £151m bonus
Department store group John Lewis reports a 9.7% rise in annual profits to £306.6m as staff share ...
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03/11/2010
Pakistan kidnap boy not released
The Foreign Office says a five-year-old boy from Oldham kidnapped in Pakistan has not been released.
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03/10/2010
Afghan criticisms unfair, PM says
Gordon Brown labels as "unfair" criticisms over the timing of his weekend visit to British troops ...
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