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Former Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch speaks to the BBC about the woman held in a cellar for 24 years.
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Nine West African countries agree an $8bn, 20-year plan to save Africa's third-largest river, the Niger.
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Officials in Beijing impose a ban on smoking in most public buildings in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
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Tehran complains to the UN about remarks made by Hillary Clinton on the possibility of a US attack on Iran.
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A woman serving a jail term for the assassination of former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi seeks premature release.
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Female sex workers in the Indian city of Calcutta are given life insurance cover for the first time.
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Hundreds of activists gather outside French supermarket chain Carrefour's stores in three Chinese cities.
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Nine people die as a bus carrying European and North American tourists crashes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
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Extra Russian troops are being deployed in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, Russia says.
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The bodies of five French mountaineers hit by an avalanche are found in Italy's northwestern Alps.
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A five-hundred-year-old shipwreck laden with treasure has been discovered off the coast of Namibia.
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A seriously ill Briton serving time in a notorious Indian jail is to see out his 10-year sentence in the UK.
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At least one person dies and many are hurt in a blast at a pro-Taleban group's office in Pakistan, officials say.
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Haiti faces a "major crisis" unless the international community increases food aid to offset rising prices.
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Junta leader Than Shwe calls on Burmese workers to back the new constitution, which critics say is deeply flawed.
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South Africa has lifted a moratorium on elephant culling to combat a surge in population numbers.
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A bus crashes in eastern Hong Kong, killing at least 18 people and leaving more than 40 others injured.
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A leading Somali Islamist militant and 10 other people are killed in a US air strike on a house in Dusamareb.
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Several Iraqi deputies bitterly attack PM Maliki over a bloody military campaign against forces loyal to Moqtada Sadr.
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Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission begins verifying the country's long-delayed presidential election results.
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One of Pakistan's ruling coalition leaders says a deal has been reached over how to deal with sacked judges.
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Italians are outraged after the government publishes every citizen's declared taxable income on the internet.
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Nine workers are killed in an accident at a gold mine near the South African city of Johannesburg.
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A lodger tells the BBC he saw another man go to the cellar where Josef Fritzl is accused of abusing his daughter.
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Hundreds are arrested as riot police prevent marchers holding a May Day rally in Istanbul.
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A group of West Africans have been stranded on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
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Afghan authorities investigate two TV stations that have not complied with a ban on Indian soap operas.
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Azerbaijan allows a Russian nuclear cargo to cross its territory into Iran after holding it up for a month.
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Azerbaijan allows a Russian nuclear cargo to cross its territory into Iran after holding it up for a month.
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The US military confirms it carried out a pre-dawn missile strike in Somalia which killed a senior Islamist militant.
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The US denies telling Belarus to withdraw diplomats and shut missions after Minsk expels 10 Americans.
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Hundreds of thousands of Cubans attend a May Day parade in Havana, amid hopes for further reforms.
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Suicide bombers kill at least 35 people in a market attack, as Iraq reports nearly 1,000 civilians dead in April.
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The US president announces fresh sanctions against Burma's junta, targeting state-owned firms.
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Oil prices fall on news that a strike in Nigeria by Exxon workers which had disrupted production has ended.
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Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai gained more votes than President Mugabe but a run-off is needed, officials say.
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Canadian police interview passengers from an Aeroflot plane where a man died after an alleged drunken row.
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