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Leading Wall St shares surge amid reports the US government may announce a new plan to tackle the global financial crisis.
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A British photographer is ordered to pay damages to Mohamed Al Fayed over pictures taken of Princess Diana on the Harrods owner's yacht.
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Food aid is not getting to Ethiopia's Somali region quickly enough, the US says.
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US officials say they will hammer out a "comprehensive" plan to try to ease what has become a global financial crisis.
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The Indian government is proposing new guidelines to regulate children's participation in reality TV shows.
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Japan's farm minister, Seiichi Ota, resigns over revelations about tainted rice that entered into the food chain.
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Plants facing extreme temperatures or drought protect themselves by producing their own aspirin, US research says.
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Match winner Darren Bent admits Thursday's 2-1 Uefa Cup win at home to Polish side Wisla Krakow lifts some of the pressure on under-pressure Spurs.
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The scandal of deadly tainted dairy products in China has widened, with liquid milk now found to be contaminated.
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Leaders of South Africa's ruling party are meeting to discuss the future of President Thabo Mbeki.
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Asian markets react positively after US officials say they will hammer out plans to ease the financial crisis.
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The family of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca drop their long-standing objection to the excavation of his grave.
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Alex Bogdanovic gets Britain's Davis Cup tie under way at Wimbledon as he takes on Austria's Jurgen Melzer.
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Online data sources may have aided an attack on an e-mail account of US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Tzipi Livni, new leader of Israel's ruling Kadima party, is working to restore unity after her victory in a leadership election opened rifts.
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Mexican troops seize more than $26m in cash stuffed into cardboard boxes, which is believed to belong to a drugs cartel.
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Nigerian militants say they have blown up another oil pipeline, while freeing two South Africans.
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More than 500 soldiers belonging to an elite paramilitary force in India are infected with HIV, the chief of the force has said.
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Iraqi capital reflects on its losses as calm returns
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The United States surge into a 5-2 lead after seven of Friday's eight matches at the Ryder Cup in Valhalla.
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Seven people are killed and two others are injured in two separate shootouts in southern Italy, police say.
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Malaysia's opposition member of parliament Teresa Kok is freed from jail as demands for political reform mount.
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Alitalia cancels a number of flights from Rome's Fiumicino airport, increasing fears that it may soon go into liquidation.
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South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki condemns critics within the ANC who are meeting to discuss his future.
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President Dmitri Medvedev accuses the West of trying to push Russia behind a new "Iron Curtain".
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The UN special envoy to Haiti says the country needs more international help after being devastated by storms.
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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir fire tear gas to disperse a large crowd protesting against Indian rule.
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Authorities have stoked fresh tensions in Hanoi, after sending bulldozers onto land claimed by the city's Catholics.
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Andy Murray returns to Wimbledon to face Alexander Peya in Great Britain's second singles match against Austria.
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Two members of Human Rights Watch are expelled by Venezuela after a report critical of President Hugo Chavez.
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Swaziland, one of the world's last absolute monarchies, holds polls under a new constitution.
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Ugandan rebels launch an attack on a barracks in Sudan amid reports of further abductions.
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Russia's two leading stock exchanges are forced to close twice after share prices surge.
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Moscow police investigating an alleged abduction find what appears to be a torture chamber in a basement in the city.
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Shops in China and elsewhere are cleared of Chinese dairy products after tests find tainted normal milk as well as baby formula.
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North Korea is making "thorough preparations" to restart the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, a foreign ministry official says.
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World number four Andy Murray draws Britain level with Austria in their Davis Cup tie after easily beating Alex Peya 6-4 6-1 6-4.
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Stone-throwing protesters disrupt a right-wing conference opposed to the building of a new mosque in Cologne, Germany.
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The US military says seven people, including three women have been killed in an air strike near Tikrit.
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US Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he is against state bail-outs for banks and financial companies.
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The United States make their best start to a Ryder Cup for 17 years thanks to a stunning comeback in the opening foursomes in Valhalla.
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A peacekeeper plane lands in Somalia's capital in defiance of militant threats as a ceasefire signing is postponed.
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The new, Maoist-led government of Nepal presents a budget likely both to please the poor and reassure capitalists.
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A Serbian football hooligan is jailed for 10 years for attacking a policeman with a flare at a match in Belgrade in 2007.
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Immigrants in a town near the southern Italian city of Naples riot after six Africans are killed in a suspected mafia attack.
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Fresh clashes between troops and Tamil rebels are reported in northern Sri Lanka after Thursday's fierce fighting.
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Michelangelo's famous statue of David could collapse because of its exposure to mass tourism, experts warn.
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A bitter political row between Pakistan's two main parties breaks out in the province of Punjab.
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A Berlin auction house says it has sold one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall for more than 7,800 euros (£6,150).
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A bomb explodes at an Islamic religious school in south-western Pakistan, killing five people and wounding at least eight.
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Shares on Wall Street follow European and Asian markets higher as confidence is boosted by a US government plan to free US banks from bad debt.
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The leader of Peru's remaining Shining Path rebels apparently rejects a call to surrender and demands an amnesty.
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The United States will take a 5½-2½ lead into day two of the 37th Ryder Cup after dominating Europe on the opening day in Valhalla, Kentucky.
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