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A court hearing is to decide if Paris Hilton will be returned to jail, a day after her early release.
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The Spanish prime minister admits holding high-level talks with the Basque separatist group, Eta.
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A court in India agrees to consider a challenge to the commissioning of large dams in the north-east.
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Thirty-one workers are rescued from a brickworks in China, where they were held as virtual slaves.
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Japan's government says it has to work harder to encourage elderly people to remain in the workforce.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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An immigration bill stalls in the US Senate, dealing a blow to President Bush's hopes of reform before his term ends.
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The International Criminal Court urges the UN to help arrest two Sudanese men accused of Darfur war crimes.
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China sees a 10% drop in death sentences since new legislation was brought in, state media says.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon says he was "shocked" at comments by the Iranian president about Israel.
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The attorney general denies claims he concealed from an anti-bribery watchdog secret payments to a Saudi prince.
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Sweden are awarded a 3-0 victory after their Euro 2008 qualifier in Denmark was abandoned.
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A new meningitis vaccine could end devastating epidemics in India and Africa, work suggests.
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Nigeria's anti-graft agency gives 15 ex-governors until the end of Friday to turn themselves in or face arrest.
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Arnaldo Otegi, leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna, is arrested by Spanish police.
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Britons have been advised by the Foreign Office to leave three states in Nigeria.
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Gunmen attack a police officer's house, killing 14 and seizing his children on another day of violence in Iraq.
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The most senior law officer in Afghanistan tells the BBC he is beaten up by an army general's bodyguards.
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US lawmaker William Jefferson, accused of hiding $90,000 in his freezer, pleads not guilty to soliciting bribes.
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PM Tony Blair tells Vladimir Putin people are "becoming fearful" about Russia's foreign policy.
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South African troops are deployed outside schools and hospitals, as a strike enters its second week.
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has ordered an immediately halt to further eviction of minority Tamils from Colombo.
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Estimates for the number of people in India with HIV/Aids may be exaggerated, a leading Aids worker says.
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G8 leaders in Germany reiterate 2005 vows to Africa, agreeing to spend $60bn fighting Aids, malaria and TB.
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Turkey's military declares its "unshakable determination" to defeat Kurdish separatists based in Iraq.
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The Pentagon asks US military judges to reconsider a decision to drop charges against two Guantanamo inmates.
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Police in the Kenyan capital defend their operations against the Mungiki sect and confirm three more deaths.
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The son of Russia's deputy prime minister is jailed after a drunken brawl in which a banker was seriously injured.
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Rafael Nadal powers past Novak Djokovic and will play world number one Roger Federer in Sunday's French Open final.
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England end day two of the third Test 175 runs ahead as West Indies suffer a dramatic collapse at Old Trafford.
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The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh bans the propagation of other religions in holy places across the state.
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A European investigator says he has evidence the CIA ran secret "war on terror" jails in Poland and Romania.
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Chile's Supreme Court places ex-Peru leader Alberto Fujimori under house arrest ahead of an extradition ruling.
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The US State Department relaxes some of its passport rules after a surge in demand creates long delays.
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Nato reacts cautiously to a Russian proposal to form a joint missile defence system with the US.
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Adm Mike Mullen is nominated as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the country's top military post.
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Somalia's first president following independence, Aden Abdulle Osman, dies in a Kenyan hospital.
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The first criminal trial over the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" of terror suspects opens in Italy, with 32 people accused.
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