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Antigua and BarbudaTrinidad & Tobago beat Middlesex by five wickets to claim the Champions Cup in the Stanford Super Series in Antigua.
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Antigua and BarbudaTrinidad & Tobago beat Middlesex by five wickets to claim the Champions Cup in the Stanford Super Series in Antigua.
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Syria, 
United StatesSyria's foreign minister accuses the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" over what it says was a raid on its territory.
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Afghanistan, 
Bosnia and HerzegovinaCoalition forces in Afghanistan have "now reached their limit", the former commander of UN forces in Bosnia says.
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ChinaChinese statistics suggest the country has moved from low income to lower middle income status
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JapanTwo convicted murderers are hanged in Japan despite criticisms of the country's stepped-up pace of executions.
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United StatesUS planemaker Boeing has reached a tentative deal to end a strike by assembly workers, unions and management say.
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IndiaSenior Indian politicians protest against the killing of a migrant worker by police in the city of Mumbai.
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North KoreaNorth Korea lashes out at the South, threatening to reduce it to rubble unless it stops a "policy of confrontation".
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Iraq, Syria, United StatesA US raid into Syria killed a key figure in the smuggling of foreign fighters into Iraq, unnamed US officials say.
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Colombia, 
FranceA Farc guerrilla who led a hostage to freedom may be rewarded with almost half a million dollars and a new life in France, officials say.
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United KingdomSir Allen Stanford apologises after he is pictured sitting among the England players' partners and with Matt Prior's wife on his lap.
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SomaliaWhy young Somali men are lured by pirate lifestyle
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New Zealand, 
Australia, 
Hong KongNew Zealand coach Graham Henry picks star fly-half Dan Carter at centre for Saturday's Test with Australia in Hong Kong.
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United StatesThe longest-serving Republican senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, is found guilty of lying about receiving gifts.
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United StatesUS gun laws are again questioned after a boy aged eight kills himself with a sub-machine gun at a supervised arms fair.
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North Korea, JapanN Korean leader Kim Jong-il is probably still in hospital, but capable of making decisions, Japan's PM Taro Aso says.
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United StatesTwo men appear in a US court accused of making threats to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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JapanJapan's Nikkei rallies after dropping below 7,000 for the first time in 26 years, following more volatile trading.
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ZimbabweAfrican leaders fail to make progress at power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe and say a larger, regional summit will be held.
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JapanEuropean stock markets rise, regaining some of the ground lost recent days, following strong gains in Asia.
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Sudan, ChinaChina brands the killing of five of its citizens in Sudan as terrorism, but says it will continue to invest in the oil-rich country.
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaA judge at The Hague reprimands Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic over the slow progress of his trial.
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MaldivesVoting ends in a presidential run-off in the Maldives between President Gayoom and challenger Mohamed Nasheed.
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IranFight to save Iranian teenagers sentenced to hang
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United StatesMore than 600 people are arrested in the US in a nationwide FBI operation against people who force children into prostitution.
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IsraelPolice arrest Israeli teen 'gunman' who wanted an A+
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Afghanistan, 
PakistanPakistan and Afghanistan agree to make contact with militant groups, including the Taleban, through a tribal council.
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EgyptAn Egyptian schoolboy dies after allegedly being beaten by his teacher for not doing his homework, local reports say.
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PolandThe Polish government says it wants to adopt the euro in 2012, but opposition to the plan may force a referendum.
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Iraq, United StatesAn Iraqi militant is sentenced to death by hanging for the 2006 killing of three American soldiers south of Baghdad.
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AustriaA tram driver in Vienna is sacked after bidding farewell to passengers with the Nazi-era salute "Sieg Heil!"
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South AfricaSouth African writer Es'kia Mphahlele - the University of Witwatersrand's first black professor - dies at the age of 88.
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United KingdomUK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announces tougher measures meant to prevent extremists from entering the UK.
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United StatesUS consumer confidence hits a record low in October, in the face of a raft of difficult economic conditions.
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Iraq, United StatesIraq criticises an apparent US helicopter strike into Syria, saying it does not want to be used as a launch-point for attacks.
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PakistanGermany's foreign minister says that Pakistan has just "a few days" to raise billions of dollars in foreign loans.
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GeorgiaBBC sees evidence Georgia may have violated war codes
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HondurasAid worker tells of devastating floods in Honduras
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ThailandThailand plans to spend millions of dollars on an internet firewall, to block websites deemed insulting to the monarchy.
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GhanaGhana's election campaign could be tarnished by money from drug trafficking, an official says.
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France, United KingdomBritain and France call for action to prevent the world financial crisis spreading and for IMF funds to be reshaped.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoHow DR Congo's eastern heaven turned into hell
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Sri LankaSri Lanka's military blames Tamil Tiger rebels for launching air strikes in the north-west and in Colombo.
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GeorgiaPresident Saakashvili rejects evidence unearthed by the BBC that Georgia may have committed war crimes in South Ossetia.
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BurmaLife in Burma six months after Cyclone Nargis
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ArgentinaArgentina legend Diego Maradona says he has agreed to take over as coach of the national side.
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ChinaMicrosoft, Google and Yahoo unite in a charter to protect online freedom of speech in countries like China.
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United StatesThe three major share indexes in New York close the day up 10%, ahead of a Fed decision on interest rates.
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