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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 7:32pm GMT
Cubans have marked Revolution Day without their ailing President, Fidel Castro, for the first time since 1959.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 3:53pm GMT
The scale of the exodus of refugees fleeing violence in Iraq has prompted a "humanitarian crisis".
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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 3:49pm GMT
A South African town is benefiting from a boom as Zimbabweans cross the border to stock up on goods.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:57am GMT
South Korea is stepping up efforts to secure the release of 22 of its people taken hostage in Afghanistan.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 2:07am GMT
A mining project is pitting conservationists against locals who say it will bring needed jobs to the area.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007, 12:47am GMT
Extreme weather continues across the continent, bringing heatwaves, forest fires and flooding.
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Posted: July 25th, 2007, 1:49pm GMT
A London exhibit opens of the work of Htein Lin who used improvised materials to paint whilst in prison.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 4:38pm GMT
More than 12 people have died in a heatwave that is affecting parts of central and south-eastern Europe.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 4:33pm GMT
US and European plans for a UN resolution on Kosovo's future have been shelved because of Russian opposition.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 4:08pm GMT
Actor Tom Cruise's role in a film about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler has caused controversy in Germany.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 4:07pm GMT
Opposition members in Ethiopia have been pardoned, days after being jailed in relation to election violence.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 12:23pm GMT
China has been hit by rain storms which have killed more than 400 people in recent weeks.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 10:51am GMT
Pakistan's Supreme Court has reinstated the chief justice suspended by the president amid corruption claims.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 11:20pm GMT
Celebrations were held in the West Bank as more than 250 Palestinian detainees freed by Israel returned home.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 6:32pm GMT
An explosion rocks Manhattan, sending a jet of steam into the air, but police say it is not terrorist-related.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 2:11pm GMT
The UN has confirmed North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon site.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 7:51am GMT
The damage caused by the earthquake in Japan to a nuclear power station is worse than first admitted.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 7:06am GMT
Senior Spanish government officials have warned the Basque separatist group ETA is planning new attacks.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 2:19am GMT
A strike by French workers may be to blame for a lack of flamingo breeding in marshland of Camargue.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 1:45am GMT
Forest fires have devastated Mount Parnitha near Athens and are affecting the city's air quality.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 1:01am GMT
A father has had his access rights reduced after encouraging his son to go bull running in Pamplona.
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Posted: July 18th, 2007, 12:56am GMT
The US Senate has been holding a rare all-night session in a debate over troop withdrawal.
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Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:13pm GMT
Up to 200 people are feared dead after a passenger plane crashed on landing at Sao Paulo airport.
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Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:13pm GMT
Up to 200 people are feared dead after a passenger plane crashed on landing at Sao Paulo airport.
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Posted: July 15th, 2007, 12:12pm GMT
The UN and African Union are to hold peace talks in Libya to work towards solving the conflict in Darfur.
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Posted: July 15th, 2007, 9:12am GMT
Pro-Taleban militants in Pakistan have ended their truce as three attacks in two days kill more than 50.
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Posted: July 15th, 2007, 6:07am GMT
The Catholic Church in Los Angeles has reportedly agreed to pay $660m to alleged sex abuse victims.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 8:56pm GMT
The worst typhoon in Japan since records began is causing widespread chaos across the country.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 5:53pm GMT
Two US teenagers have been charged with conspiracy to attack a school.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 2:18pm GMT
North Korea has shut down its main nuclear reactor, according to a US State Department spokesman.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 2:18pm GMT
North Korea has shut down its main nuclear reactor, according to a US State Department spokesman.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 12:06pm GMT
Two doctors have been charged in connection with the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 11:00am GMT
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 10:40am GMT
The coffee chain were forced to close its shop on the historic Forbidden City site after huge protests.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 3:15am GMT
A man in a tank has gone on the rampage in Sydney, destroying six mobile phone towers.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007, 2:02am GMT
One of Gordon Brown's ministers has said that the US and the UK should no longer be 'joined at the hip'.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 12:58pm GMT
Astronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:22am GMT
Libya's Supreme Court has upheld death sentences imposed on six foreign medics for infecting children with HIV.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:00am GMT
Pakistan's army says it has cleared a mosque of militants, a day after troops stormed the complex.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 5:20am GMT
A baby mammoth unearthed in north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 2:14am GMT
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is visiting north Africa to boost relations between Mediterranean countries.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 12:57am GMT
Jurors in the Conrad Black Hollinger fraud trial have been unable to reach a unanimous verdict after nine days.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 8:35pm GMT
Pope Benedict angered other faiths and Christian denominations by asserting Catholic supremacy.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 4:49pm GMT
China has executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog for corruption.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 12:48pm GMT
President Bush is trying to calm mounting pressure over his Iraq policy by saying US troops will eventually come home.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 10:52am GMT
A militant Pakistani cleric has been killed after troops stormed a mosque in Islamabad, officials have said.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 9:42am GMT
Thousands of people in Indonesia are being evacuated from the area near the Mount Gamkonora volcano.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 6:14am GMT
Thailand's Supreme Court has agreed to hear corruption charges against the former prime minister.
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 3:24am GMT
Around half a million people have been evacuated after floods in the Sichuan province.
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Posted: July 9th, 2007, 10:31pm GMT
Hundreds of people have been displaced as wild fires move eastwards across America.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007, 4:56pm GMT
Freed BBC journalist Alan Johnston has been reunited with his family following his return to the UK.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007, 10:49am GMT
More than 100 people have been killed and 240 injured in a truck bomb blast at a busy market in northern Iraq.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007, 8:23am GMT
French intellectuals have attacked their president's love of jogging, saying it is not a fit pastime.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007, 1:38am GMT
At least 1,000 people are believed to have died in Mexico this year as a result of drug related violence.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007, 1:29am GMT
Pakistan's president has told Islamists barricaded inside an Islamabad mosque they must surrender or be killed.
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Posted: July 6th, 2007, 8:41pm GMT
Music stars entertained fans around the world at nine Live Earth concerts to highlight climate change fears.
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Posted: July 6th, 2007, 11:57am GMT
A man has been remanded in custody over the suspected car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow.
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Posted: July 4th, 2007, 8:06am GMT
The Vanuatu islands are underdeveloped but the happiest country on earth due to strong traditions.
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Posted: July 4th, 2007, 4:18am GMT
A memorial has been unveiled at the prison in Potsdam where a thousand Germans were secretly held.
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Posted: July 4th, 2007, 12:55am GMT
BBC journalist Alan Johnston has been freed by kidnappers after almost four months in captivity.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 7:22pm GMT
Villagers on the Indonesian island of Java are harvesting salt from a mud volcano.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 5:17pm GMT
Radical recruitment videos show Islamic extremists actively trying to attract doctors and lawyers.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 3:51pm GMT
At least nine die in clashes of security forces and Islamist students at the Red Mosque in Pakistan.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 3:51pm GMT
A Pakistani government deadline for Islamist students at a mosque to surrender after clashes has passed.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 3:50pm GMT
The former leader of Liberia, Charles Taylor, made a rare court appearance after refusing to appear
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 12:34pm GMT
Japan's defence minister resigns admist fury of his view of WWII's atomic attacks on Japan.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 8:06am GMT
China is increasingly sourcing raw materials from Africa, but some workers have complained of exploitation.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 6:07am GMT
Radical students and soldiers have clashed outside a rebellious mosque in the capital, Islamabad.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 6:02am GMT
Brazil's government has announced a $1.7bn investment to improve conditions in Rio de Janiero slums.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 4:41am GMT
A new noise law has been introduced in New York in a bid to reduce noise and improve quality of life.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 1:04am GMT
A rare foal which is half horse and half zebra has become a superstar in Germany.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 12:46am GMT
The eight people arrested over failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the NHS.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 12:10am GMT
President Bush has spared Lewis Libby, a convicted former US vice-presidential aide, from prison.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 12:09am GMT
Spain's foreign minister has condemned a suicide bombing in Yemen, which killed seven Spaniards and two Yemenis.
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Posted: July 2nd, 2007, 5:16pm GMT
US President Bush and Russian President Putin have agreed to work together on Iran.