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Overweight people could be increasing their friends' risks of becoming obese too, US researchers say.
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The Taleban have killed one of 23 South Korean hostages being held in Afghanistan, government officials say.
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Inter-Korean military talks break down after the two sides fail to make progress on a sea border dispute.
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The Australian premier is in East Timor, amid political deadlock in the country after June's inconclusive polls.
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A tsunami warning is issued for the Indonesian province of North Maluku after a quake rocks the area.
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A US-based rights group blames Colombian rebels for the country's more than 1,000 landmine-related deaths.
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An undersea quake strikes Indonesia's North Maluku province - but an initial tsunami warning is cancelled.
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Authorities in India's north-eastern Manipur state begin killing poultry after an outbreak of bird flu.
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Israel's biggest trade union calls off a general strike after a deal with the government on pay increases.
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Pirated software worth $500m has been seized in raids against a Chinese software gang.
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India's digital revolution underpins earnings at the country's top mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel.
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Monks turn away officials who arrived to take a "sacred" bullock for slaughter, insisting they get a warrant.
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A court in Bangladesh sends a former minister to jail for 31 years for aiding Islamic militants.
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US carmaker Ford posts its first quarterly profit since 2005 and hints at selling Jaguar and Land Rover.
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Moves to stop women wearing trousers in a South African township are condemned by politicians and rights groups.
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Fifteen Syrian soldiers are killed and dozens hurt after hot weather sets off a blast at an arms depot.
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Taleban commander Abdullah Mehsud was killed by Pakistani troops and did not commit suicide, reports say.
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Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua announces his cabinet almost three months after the elections.
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New UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband urges co-operation against terrorism, after talks in Pakistan.
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Michael Rasmussen protests his innocence as the crisis-hit Tour de France comes to terms with two days of scandal.
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McLaren escape any immediate penalty after a disciplinary hearing into allegations of spying involving their F1 rivals Ferrari.
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Libya lodges a complaint over Bulgaria's decision to pardon six medics released from life sentences in the Arab nation.
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A former Nigerian governor who skipped bail in the UK dressed as a woman is sent to prison for two years.
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South Korea steps up efforts to secure the release of 22 hostages in Afghanistan after one of them is killed.
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A French-Israeli man gets five years in jail for a scam robbing hundreds of French troops out of millions of dollars.
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Babies are being illegally offered for sale in Bulgaria with the promise of smuggling them abroad, the BBC learns.
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Russia is sending aircraft to help Greece fight forest fires raging amid record high temperatures.
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Conservationists express concern over the "senseless" killing of four gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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At least 60 Taleban fighters are killed in clashes with troops in southern Afghanistan, US-led forces say.
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Three Islamic Jihad men and one from Hamas are killed in separate Israeli military raids on the Gaza Strip.
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The US government is ordered to pay out about $100m in the case of four men wrongly convicted of a Mafia killing.
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A South Korean woman held hostage in Afghanistan pleads for her freedom, a day after a male captive is killed.
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Cubans mark Revolution Day without their ailing President, Fidel Castro, for the first time since 1959.
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A car bomb explodes in a busy shopping district in central Baghdad, leaving at least 25 people dead.
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A summit on the millions of Iraqi refugees uprooted by war has pledged to help them with their difficulties.
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The ex-South African President denies involvement in apartheid-era crimes or human rights abuses.
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