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Four people are killed and more than 30 injured as an express train derails in northern Japan.
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A blaze in a bar in the southern Chinese city of Zhongshan kills 26 people celebrating Christmas.
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Fears of racist violence in Russia take a new urgency after an African is stabbed to death in St Petersburg.
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South Africa paceman Andre Nel takes 4-58 as Australia end day one of the Melbourne Test on 239-8.
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India selector Kiran More denounces Sourav Ganguly for skipping domestic cricket ahead of the Pakistan tour.
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Gary Glitter faces formal charges of child molestation, but a charge of child rape will be dropped, his lawyer says.
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China says it has made a new bird flu vaccine for poultry which may also ultimately help protect humans.
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An Indian peacekeeper is among the dead as UN and DR Congo troops clash with rebels in eastern DR Congo.
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Maldives' president says an early warning system is not enough to protect his country from another tsunami.
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Russia closes a case against ex-Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko because statute of limitation has expired.
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Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games could generate millions of dollars in profits, according to state media.
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A number of Catholic cardinals have warned Italian women against mixed marriages with the rising number of Muslims in the country.
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Four people including two suspected Tamil Tiger rebels die in fresh violence in eastern Sri Lanka.
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A new governing council is sworn in in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, despite opposition from national leaders.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon is to undergo a procedure to close a small hole in his heart, his doctors say.
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Dozens of people are taken ill after a gas is released in a shop in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
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Israel announces plans to build 228 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, just outside Jerusalem.
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Thirteen people jailed falsely for child abuse in France demand an open inquiry into the scandal.
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Swedes hold ceremonies to mark the first anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Ceremonies are held to mark the first anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Chile's supreme court rules that former military ruler Augusto Pinochet should face human rights charges.
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London's terror threat comes from "small disaffected groups", claims the capital's mayor Ken Livingstone.
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Russian authorities made no mistakes in the 2004 Beslan school siege in which 330 died, prosecutors say.
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Libya shelves talks on compensation for the families of more than 400 children infected with HIV.
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The UK is almost alone in the EU in honouring commitments to cut greenhouse gases, a think-tank warns.
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