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05/16/2008
Chinese leader visits quake area
Hu Jintao flies to Sichuan Province, where it is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in ...
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05/15/2008
Burma storm aid frustrations grow
Top aid officials ramp up pressure on Burma, as the military government insists it has cyclone aid ...
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05/15/2008
Wildlife populations 'plummeting'
Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to ...
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05/15/2008
Farc rebel link files 'genuine'
Colombia did not fake computer files which it alleges connect rebels to Venezuela and Ecuador, ...
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05/15/2008
California lifts gay marriage ban
California's top court overturns the state's ban on same-sex marriages in a ruling expected to ...
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05/15/2008
Lagos pipeline blast 'kills 100'
At least 100 people are killed in an oil pipeline explosion in the Nigeria's city of Lagos, the ...
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05/15/2008
Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama interprets a speech by President Bush as an attack on his ...
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05/15/2008
Deal seeks to end Lebanon strife
Arab League mediators broker a deal aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon that raised fears of a new ...
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05/15/2008
US 'cyber-bully' mother indicted
A US woman whose daughter's friend committed suicide after she allegedly bullied her on MySpace is ...
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05/15/2008
Chicago city council overturns foie gras ban
Chicago's city council overturns a ban on restaurants serving foie gras, angering animal rights ...
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05/15/2008
Oldest known bust of Caesar found in River Rhone
Divers have found the oldest known bust of Roman ruler Julius Caesar in the River Rhone, officials ...
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05/15/2008
England held up by McCullum blitz
Brendon McCullum smashes 97 as New Zealand reach 208-6 after a truncated opening day of the series ...
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05/15/2008
Murray falls to Nadal in Hamburg
Andy Murray fails to handle Rafael Nadal's brilliance on clay as the Spaniard wins their round ...
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05/14/2008
Inside Shatila
Explore life in a Palestinian refugee camp
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05/15/2008
Failing the people
Natalia Antelava meets angry survivors in Burma
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05/15/2008
It's quiz time!
How did the Pope's stargazer describe aliens?
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05/16/2008
Dangerous ground
Hezbollah offensive pushes Lebanese unity to the limit
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05/15/2008
Hillary's endgame
Who could tell Clinton if and when the party's over?
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05/15/2008
Slum diary
Sierra Leone medic on telling someone their HIV status
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05/15/2008
Zimbabwe bank issues $500m note
Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit.
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05/15/2008
Amazon 'needs economic chance'
The minister in charge of Brazil's rainforest says conservation and economic development go hand in ...
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05/15/2008
Vietnam drugs haul 'largest ever'
Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from ...
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05/15/2008
Italian police swoop on migrants
Italian police arrest hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country.
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05/16/2008
Lebanon leaders to meet in Qatar
Lebanon's rival leaders are to meet in Qatar for talks aimed at pulling the country back from the ...
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05/16/2008
India issues new suspect sketches
Police in India issue three more sketches of men whom they want to question for the attacks in the ...
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05/15/2008
'1m more' on housing waiting list
Five million people in England could be on the waiting list for social housing within two years, ...
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05/15/2008
Fed auctions $7bn in securities
The US central bank auctions $7bn in securities, far less than was available, showing credit ...
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05/15/2008
Doubts over asbestos cancer chemo
Chemotherapy does not help people with asbestos-related cancer, according to UK researchers.
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05/15/2008
Evolution rolls on for Mars rover
The wheels continue to turn on Europe's billion-euro project to put a robotic rover on the Red ...
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05/15/2008
Diamond tops chart for first time
Singer Neil Diamond reaches the top of the US Billboard chart for the first time in his career.
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05/15/2008
'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP
Microsoft joins forces with the makers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows XP available on the ...
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01/28/2008
Have you got a good story? What do you want to talk about?
Are there topics you want to get the world to talk about? What do you want to comment on or find ...
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