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Lebanese talks on disarming Hezbollah are put off as fighting goes on just hours before a ceasefire deadline.
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A power cut lasting several hours causes widespread disruption in and around the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
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The Indian government suspends military operations against a top separatist group to push forward peace talks.
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Aston Villa's board accept a £62.6m takeover of the club from American billionaire Randy Lerner.
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Australia's PM John Howard drops controversial changes to the asylum law after a revolt by lawmakers.
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Chinese retail spending for July grows at a slower, but healthy 13.7%, boosted by rising incomes and strong spending.
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South Korean legislators tell Japan's PM Koizumi not to visit a controversial war shrine, as a key anniversary looms.
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A team of Italian students wins the Imagine Cup - a global competition for budding software designers.
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The German economy grew at its fastest rate for five years between April and June, official figures show.
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At least seven people are killed in a powerful explosion in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, officials say.
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Three Palestinians are killed in Gaza as Israeli forces respond to rocket fire on the city of Ashkelon.
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Eleven Taleban militants and one soldier die in Helmand province as troops clash with militants, officials say.
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Poland's ex-president Lech Walesa says German writer Guenter Grass should hand back a Polish honour.
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The death toll from Typhoon Saomai reaches 255, as dozens of fishermen are reported killed in Fujian.
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Thousands of displaced Lebanese begin travelling home as a UN-brokered ceasefire comes into force.
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Cuban media prints new photos of ailing President Fidel Castro, as speculation over his condition continues.
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Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi calls for a ceasefire with the Islamists who control the capital.
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The Indonesian president praises the one-year-old Aceh peace deal but urges against complacency.
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A Brazilian reporter seized by a gang is freed, hours after his TV station aired a video issued by his abductors.
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Astronomers meet in Prague to define the meaning of the word planet, and to decide if Pluto really is one.
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The terror threat to the UK is downgraded as a British Airways flight is turned back to London's Heathrow airport.
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The son of one of Israel's leading authors and peace activists, David Grossman, is killed fighting in Lebanon.
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The US journalist Jill Carroll, held captive in Iraq for 82 days, gives her first public account of her ordeal.
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Two Britons are among five foreign workers taken at gunpoint from a club in Port Harcourt - Nigeria's oil city.
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The Slovenian president's envoy to Sudan is jailed for two years for spying and illegally entering the country.
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The condition of former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, in a coma since January, has worsened, the hospital treating him says.
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Nigeria hands over the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon as Nigerian troops complete their withdrawal.
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A submarine which may have been used by cocaine smugglers is found floating off the Spanish coast.
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Coca Cola enlists the help of British government scientists to prove its soft drinks sold in India are safe to drink.
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Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels are to resume peace talks after mourning one of their commanders.
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Strict anti-smoking measures come into force in Chile, including a ban on selling cigarettes to under-18s.
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The Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz says the country's future rests on defeating terrorism.
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A river bursts its banks in a remote part of southern Ethiopia killing at least 125 people, a week after floods killed 250.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say an air strike by government forces has killed 61 girls at an orphanage.
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Republic of Ireland football manager Steve Staunton is confronted by a man with a gun at the team's hotel near Dublin.
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Rising temperatures will raise the risk of wildfires, droughts and floods over the next 200 years, UK scientists warn.
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The Red Cross warns both Israel and Hezbollah of their humanitarian duties as Lebanese refugees surge home.
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The US knew of Israel's plans to attack Hezbollah well before the bombing campaign began, a US journalist claims.
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Sri Lanka closes all schools fearing reprisals as rebels accuse government forces of bombing an orphanage.
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