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The cultivation of truffles in Australia has proved such a success that the first batch has been exported abroad, Nick Squires reports.
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A drama by a Swiss director about the lives of women in exile takes top award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Israel expresses regret after a strike on a car in Gaza injures a Reuters cameraman and another reporter.
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A day of fighting in Russia's North Caucasus region leaves four suspected militants and three policemen dead.
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Police in Mauritania say at least eight have died trying to illegally enter the Spanish Canary Islands by boat.
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A Red Cross ferry filled with foreign nationals trapped by fighting in northern Sri Lanka arrives in the east.
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Tribal rebel leader Nawab Akbar Bugti has been killed in a battle in Balochistan province, Pakistan says.
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One third of China is suffering from acid rain caused by rapid industrial growth, an official report says.
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The mother of an Austrian teenager who escaped after eight years of captivity says she cannot see her daughter.
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US trade representative Susan Schwab visits China in the hope that Beijing can revive WTO trade talks.
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A British soldier has died in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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England captain Andrew Strauss wants to leave controversy behind when they face Pakistan in Monday's Twenty20 game.
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The USA ease past Australia 113-73 to reach the last eight of the World Basketball Championship in Japan.
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A passenger plane carrying 50 people crashes shortly after taking off in Kentucky, with reports of many deaths.
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UN chief Kofi Annan will visit Tehran days after a UN deadline for it to suspend uranium enrichment.
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At least 12 people die in blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as a security clampdown continues.
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Leading Indian film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee dies in hospital in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
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More than 450 people are arrested in Pakistan as protests follow the killing of a key rebel leader.
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US political parties care only about buying TV commercials, former US Vice-President Al Gore says.
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US journalist Paul Salopek, arrested earlier this month in Darfur region of Sudan, is charged with spying.
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At least 47 people are killed when a water tank they were sitting on collapsed in India's Rajasthan state.
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Hezbollah's leader says he would not have captured two Israeli soldiers if he could have foreseen the result.
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Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels start leaving their bases in the DR Congo as demanded by a peace deal.
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US Senator Barack Obama addresses cheering crowds as he tours a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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