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A mentally-ill Briton who was on death row in Vietnam has been saved by the country's president.
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A Chinese court's jailing of a human rights activist sparks criticism from Western leaders and rights groups.
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The boss of South Korea's Samsung Group is questioned by prosecutors over corruption allegations.
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A suicide bomber kills at least three police officers in an attack in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
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The sale and production of alcohol will be banned in Nepal in the run-up to the upcoming elections.
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The first cases of people dying from bird flu in Pakistan are confirmed by the World Health Organisation.
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India's inflation rate accelerates to a three-year high because of rising food and fuel costs, officials say.
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Mali's government and a Tuareg rebel group sign a deal aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the north.
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A leader of a Nigerian oil-militant group appears in court to be formally charged with treason
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India allows a Pakistani film a wide commercial release for the first time in over four decades.
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A Palestinian gunman in Gaza wounds an aide to the Israeli public security minister, Avi Dichter.
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The leader of a peaceful protest in the Indonesian city of Ambon is jailed for life, a court official says.
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One of Burundi's leading politicians is sentenced to 13 years for subversion and insulting the president.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki orders a stop to operations against "people who carry weapons" in the country.
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Swedish archaeologists find a rare hoard of Viking-age silver Arab coins near Stockholm's international airport.
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A Burmese activist who protested alone and silently outside the US embassy in Rangoon is jailed for life.
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Russia's leader describes as positive his talks with Nato chiefs, but warns against the bloc's expansion eastwards.
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Eleven out of 14 members of Greece's weightlifting team test positive for banned substances.
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Fresh violence breaks out in a Tibetan area of China, weeks after a government crackdown, state media says.
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A 20-year-old man is arrested in Florida after allegedly making an online threat to carry out a mass shooting.
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A US man sell the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m - after maintaining it for $20 a year since 1994.
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A blast rocks an apartment block in northern Moscow, killing at least two people and igniting a big fire.
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Eight elite German police commandos are under investigation for allegedly training Libyan police.
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France's president would go to Colombia's border if it would help free hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a minister says.
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Pirates board a luxury French yacht off Somalia's coast, taking all its 30 crew hostage, officials say.
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The IMF orders Tajikistan to pay back more than $47m in loans after misreporting figures, the BBC has learned.
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Muttiah Muralitharan takes three wickets as Sri Lanka stall West Indies' progress on day two of the second Test in Trinidad.
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The crew of a US B-1 bomber are safe after their plane caught fire in an incident in Qatar, the US military says.
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The United States says it plans to send a "significant" number of extra troops to Afghanistan next year.
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Crowds of people gather in the US city of Memphis to mark 40 years since Martin Luther King's death.
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An Argentine couple are jailed for illegally adopting a baby born 30 years ago to parents killed during the Dirty War.
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