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Egyptian plateau attracts thrill-seeking tourists
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Beijing says oil exports to China could triple by 2012 to one million barrels a day.
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Hong Kong's Bank of East Asia appears to have recovered after a run on its deposits on Wednesday.
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Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is summoned to appear before an Indian Premier League drugs panel on 11 October.
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The Philippines military says it has killed at least 16 Muslim guerillas in renewed fighting in the south of the country.
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Finnish investigators say the Kauhajoki college shooting and the massacre in Jokela in 2007 may have been linked.
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Why are many French restaurants feeling the pinch?
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The local mafia in southern Italy has declared a "war on the state", Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni warns.
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A bout of belated Beatlemania breaks out in Tel Aviv
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A Swiss pilot prepares to become the first person to fly across the English Channel using a jet-powered fixed wing.
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Pakistani authorities increase security at Islamabad international airport after a threat of a possible bomb attack.
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Twenty-one aid agencies accuse Russia, the US, the EU and the UN of doing too little to bring peace to the Middle East.
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Hindu mobs vandalise a church and dozens of houses as anti-Christian attacks continue in India's Orissa state.
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Disagreement emerges between the US presidential rivals over whether to delay a TV debate in light of the economic crisis.
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Nigerian police arrest more than 200 suspected militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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A US military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has resigned over what defence lawyers say is a row over ethical concerns.
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Reporter tells of 'year of abuse' in US Afghan base
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A prominent Israeli peace activist and academic, Zeev Sternhell, has been slightly wounded in a bomb attack.
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Ginny Hill discovers that working as a reporter in Yemen means defying local notions of acceptable behaviour and paying the price.
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The EU imposes a ban on imported Chinese baby food that contains any traces of milk, while other Chinese food will be tested.
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The leaders of India and Pakistan meet in New York and say they will resume stalled peace talks within three months.
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A court in Cameroon sentences a popular singer to three years over anti-government riots.
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Some 75,000 people have fled Ugandan rebels in northern DR Congo, the aid agency Caritas says.
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China has launched Shenzhou VII, its third manned space mission, which is to feature the country's first spacewalk.
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Fifa fines the Croatian Football Federation £15,000 for racist behaviour by their fans during the World Cup qualifier with England on 10 September.
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Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney says he wants to "help the peace process through music" ahead of a concert in Israel.
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Tourists can now choose their meals from a menu painted on the West Bank barrier in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem.
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Film footage featuring Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot sells for A$17,500 (£8,000) in Australia.
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A group of European tourists and their guides kidnapped in Egypt's desert have been moved to Libya, a Sudanese official says.
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The Zulu reed dance is sexist and outdated, says South Africa's Young Communist League.
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A Canadian man is found guilty of participating in a home-grown terrorist group that allegedly planned to behead the PM.
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An Italian company whose boss in India was allegedly beaten to death by sacked workers says it is to investigate his killing.
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The White House hopefuls are to meet George Bush for crisis talks, as progress is reportedly made on a $700bn bail-out deal.
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Senegal issues an arrest warrant for a French judge in a row over a 2002 ferry disaster.
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An inquiry finds that the chief minister of India's Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, was not at fault over religious riots in 2002.
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Pakistan says its troops fired warning shots at two Nato helicopters as they crossed the eastern Afghan border.
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Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.
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Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.
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Alitalia, the Italian airline which is struggling to survive, is given a temporary reprieve by the civil aviation authority.
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More than half of Europe's amphibians could be extinct by 2050, due to climate change and disease, UK research warns.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe calls at the UN for the lifting of what he says are illegal sanctions against his country.
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The US military says its troops have exchanged gunfire with Pakistani forces across the border with Afghanistan.
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Both parties in the US Congress have reached agreement on a $700bn bail-out plan for Wall Street, a leading senator says.
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South Africa's new president stresses continuity as he names his cabinet.
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