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ItalyTime takes its toll on Rome's bell-ringers
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Guatemala, 
United StatesFive US aid workers are among 10 people killed when a small plane crashes east of the Guatemalan capital, police say.
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ChinaChina deports eight Americans detained in Beijing last week for demonstrating about Tibet during the Olympic Games.
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PakistanEight people are killed in a rocket attack on a politician's home in north-west Pakistan, police say.
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Australia, ChinaAustralia approves China's recent purchase of a stake in mining giant Rio Tinto despite fears it could harm national interests.
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BangladeshAustralia opener Matthew Hayden is ruled out of the home one-day series against Bangladesh.
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United KingdomEngland captain Kevin Pietersen welcomes the International Cricket Council's decision to postpone the Champions Trophy by 13 months.
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Sierra LeoneHunger and hope for Sierra Leone's children
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ThailandProsecutors in Thailand ask the Supreme Court to seize $2.2bn (£1.2bn) in assets belonging to ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
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KyrgyzstanA passenger plane bound for Iran crashes shortly after take-off from Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing 68 people.
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ChinaProfits at Asia's biggest oil refiner Sinopec fall as price controls prevent the firm from passing on record crude costs.
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IsraelIsrael releases nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners in a bid to bolster Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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IndiaOver a million people are affected by floods in the northern Indian state of Bihar, officials say.
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NigerLandmines set off by accident kill one at a Tuareg rebel arms handover in Niger.
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ThailandMystery of Thai island backpacker's disappearance
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South Africa, United KingdomFast bowler Ryan Sidebottom is ruled out of the remaining four matches in England's one-day series against South Africa with a groin injury.
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South Korea, 
North Korea, ChinaSouth Korean and Chinese presidents discuss stalled North Korean nuclear talks, as a two-day summit begins in Seoul.
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United KingdomThe pound slides to its weakest levels against the dollar in more than two years, on fears about the health of the UK economy.
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SpainSome of the victims of last week's plane crash in Madrid may never be identified, the Spanish government says.
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ChinaThe 2008 Beijing Games are praised as "truly exceptional" by Olympics chief Jacques Rogge.
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Ireland, 
PortugalThe Irish Republic may need to hold a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, an Irish minister says.
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MalaysiaWhy a by-election has become a key battle ground
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ItalyThe world's first online beauty pageant for nuns is being organised by a priest in Italy.
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PakistanFormer Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his party is pulling out of the country's multi-party governing coalition.
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DenmarkEverton are on the verge of their first signing of the summer after agreeing a deal for Denmark full-back Lars Christian Jacobsen.
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Iraq, United StatesThe Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki speaks in detail about a deal to bring an end to the foreign troop presence by 2011.
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United StatesCondoleezza Rice arrives in the Middle East as part of US efforts to secure a peace deal by the end of the year.
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PolandPolish prosecutors investigate claims that the CIA interrogated terrorist suspects at a secret jail in Poland.
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KenyaA proposal to pay the wives of Kenya's prime minister and vice-president angers tax-payers.
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FranceThe bodies of several climbers caught in a French avalanche have been located, but will not be retrieved yet.
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ZimbabweThe candidate backed by Zimbabwe's opposition MDC is elected speaker of parliament, after MPs were sworn in.
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AfghanistanThe Afghan government says it wants to renegotiate the terms of foreign forces in their country after fatal air strike.
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Argentina, United Kingdom, United StatesBritish number one Andy Murray opens his US Open campaign against Argentine Sergio Roitman.
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TurkeyArchaeologists in Turkey discover parts of a colossal marble statue depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
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Argentina, United Kingdom, United StatesBritish number one Andy Murray beats Sergio Roitman of Argentina in round one of the US Open.
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United StatesSales of previously owned homes climbed in July as buyers exploited recent falls in prices, official data shows.
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United StatesShares in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae rise after Freddie Mac sells $2bn of short-term debt.
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Georgia, 
RussiaRussia's parliament urges President Medvedev to recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions.
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IndiaMuslims in Indian-administered Kashmir defy a curfew as four people die in clashes with security forces.
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FranceDeadly chemicals infiltrate France's Rhone river
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PakistanUncertain future for Pakistan after coalition split
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