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SpainSpain's top criminal court suspends the opening of mass graves in the inquiry into disappearances under Franco.
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ThailandPolitical protests expose Thailand's social divide
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United StatesUS President-elect Barack Obama pledges to confront the economic crisis immediately after taking office in January.
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MexicoInvestigators say a plane crash in Mexico City that killed a minister and at least 12 others was not caused by a bomb.
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HaitiA school collapses during class in a suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, killing at least 50 people and trapping others.
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ItalyItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi defends his description of Barack Obama as "young, handsome, and tanned".
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GeorgiaAn ex-Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe official accuses it of failing to warn about the Georgia conflict.
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India, 
AustraliaAustralia are bowled out for 355 in reply to India's 441 on day three of the fourth and final Test at Nagpur.
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New Zealand, 
United KingdomEngland surrender a half-time lead to suffer a demoralising defeat by New Zealand at the rugby league World Cup.
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United StatesIn Washington, Kevin Connolly reflects on how Barack Obama's historic election win has widened the boundaries of the American dream.
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PakistanMohammed Hanif returns to his native Pakistan where he is shocked by how religion now dominates all aspects of everyday life.
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BhutanCharles Haviland watches the celebrations as a young king ascends to the throne in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
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India, AustraliaIndia lead Australia by 86 runs at the end of day three of the final Test after closing on 0-0 with Australia all out for 355.
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Thailand, United KingdomThe British government revokes the visas of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife.
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EgyptPalestinian militant group Hamas says it will boycott talks with its Fatah rivals due to have begun in Cairo on Sunday.
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CubaHurricane Paloma strengthens to a Category Four storm, with winds of up to 225km/h lashing the Cayman Islands.
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United StatesAn eight-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his father and another man in the US state of Arizona, police say.
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United StatesAn eight-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his father and another man in the US state of Arizona, police say.
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HaitiRescuers work through the night in the rubble of a collapsed school in Haiti, where at least 75 people are known to have died.
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New ZealandNew Zealand's opposition National Party ends Helen Clark's nine years in power after easily winning a general election.
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IraqEight peopleare killed in a suicide bombing near the city of Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province, west of Baghdad, police say.
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HaitiHaitian worker tries to dig children from collapsed school
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Poland, United StatesUS President-elect Barack Obama has not committed to plans to build part of a US missile defence system in Poland, an aide says.
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Ireland, 
South Africa, United KingdomScotland take on New Zealand and Ireland face Canada, after England beat the Pacific Islanders and Wales lose to South Africa.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoA rebel general's troops and pro-government militia committed war crimes during clashes this week, the UN alleges.
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IndiaAn engine burn takes India's Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft into orbit around the Moon for its two-year mission.
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IrelandThree Britons appear in court charged in connection with a 1.7 tonne haul of cocaine seized from a yacht off Ireland.
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