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Barack Obama beats Hillary Clinton in the US Democratic Party caucus on the tiny Pacific island of Guam.
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Rescue teams in Brazil will resume their search for a plane containing four British businessmen.
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The Olympic torch starts its tour of mainland China, ahead of the summer Games in Beijing in August.
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At least 18 prisoners are killed during a fight at a jail in Honduras - the second such incident in less than a week.
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Fugitive US millionaire Robert Vesco died last year in Cuba of lung cancer at 72, the New York Times reports.
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Valentino Rossi clinches victory in round four of the MotoGP season in China.
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At least eight people are reported dead on South Korea's west coast after being swept away by high waves.
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Few people appear to observe a strike call in Egypt, which activists hoped would highlight rising food prices.
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US investment guru Warren Buffett says the worst of the credit crunch is over, for Wall Street at least.
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Nepal's Maoist leader says the party's big election victory is a signal for a global resurgence in communism.
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Zimbabwe's opposition says it has come to no decision yet on whether to take part in a presidential run-off.
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Women's groups in Malaysia react angrily to proposed restrictions on women travelling abroad alone.
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Mediators from Qatar try to salvage a truce between Shia rebels and the government in Yemen amid rising violence.
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Ireland's Peter Lawrie beats Ignacio Garrido at the second extra hole to win the Spanish Open in Seville.
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People in the Somali town of Dusamareb protest against a US strike that killed a militant leader and at least 10 others.
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A tropical cyclone killed at least 351 people in Burma and damaged thousands of buildings, state TV reports.
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UK PM Gordon Brown says Labour will recover from poor local election results and says he feels to blame.
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The wife of Iraq's president is unhurt after a bomb exploded near her motorcade in Baghdad.
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A British couple on holiday in Portugal had their three young children taken into custody after passing out drunk.
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An Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is possible by the year's end, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says.
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Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia says it has downed two unmanned spy planes - a claim denied by Tbilisi.
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