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A US mother who burned her one-month-old daughter to death in a microwave oven is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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North Korea defies critics as it marks its 60th anniversary
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Australian faces jail for alleged insult to Thai ruling family
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Andy Murray says he needs to work hard to go one better than his US Open final loss to Roger Federer.
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President Bush will announce plans to withdraw 8,000 US troops from Iraq and send reinforcements to Afghanistan.
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Andy Murray says he needs to work hard to go one better than his US Open final loss to Roger Federer.
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Georgia's president cautiously welcomes Russia's planned troop withdrawal from areas around South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Mexican police detain five people suspected of involvement in the killing of a teenager whose murder sparked national protests.
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Counter-terrorism officials are "dismayed" as a trial fails to prove a plot to bring down transatlantic airliners, the BBC learns.
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Serbia's parliament ratifies a key agreement with the European Union, bringing eventual membership a step closer.
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Angola's opposition party and ex-rebel group, Unita, accepts defeat in last week's polls.
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President Mugabe says power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe are "moving forward".
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South Africa's Oscar Pistorius wins 100m gold while Ben Rushgrove and Libby Clegg take silver medals for Great Britain.
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An Israeli minister says Israel could kidnap Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of his threats to the state.
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Bolivian images recall Nazi-era photographer
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The High Court in Bangladesh grants bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, her lawyers say.
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Asif Ali Zardari is sworn in as Pakistani president facing a rampant Islamist insurgency and daunting economic problems.
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Thailand's PM is ordered to resign for taking money to appear on a TV cookery show, but his party vows to reinstate him.
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A martial arts master says North Korean agents recruited him as part of a failed plot to kill a South Korean president.
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Fourteen people, including an exam board chairman, are jailed in Egypt for leaking details of the senior school exam.
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Serbia's parliament ratifies a key agreement with the European Union, bringing eventual membership a step closer.
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The former European Union envoy to Afghanistan says the West has no coherent strategy for victory there.
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A helicopter rented by a Nigerian hip-hop star is impounded by a school for landing on their field without permission.
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Durham fast bowler Steve Harmison is named in England's 15-man squad for the $20m (£11.5m) Stanford Super Series.
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Inflation has moderated but still poses a risk to the Indian economy, India's new central bank governor says.
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Our man Jon Kelly boards BBC bus for US election journey
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India's Supreme Court refuses to launch criminal proceedings against painter MF Husain, saying his work is not obscene.
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Ugandan rebels denounce a campaign in DR Congo, saying it will scupper fresh peace talks.
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is sworn in and pledges to fight the nation's rampant Islamist insurgency.
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The Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers both admit suffering heavy losses in a rebel suicide attack.
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A road trip around food-scarce rural Zimbabwe
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Pending sales of US homes fell more than expected in July, says the main estate agency trade body.
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Russia announces that some 7,600 troops will remain in the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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What now after agencies banned in northern Sri Lanka?
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The list of UK jobs likely to be open to workers from outside the EU is published as part of new immigration measures.
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A Nigerian man with 86 wives challenges a decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them.
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There is growing speculation about the health of North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il after he misses a key parade.
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The EU reassures Ukraine that its territorial integrity is "non-negotiable" and offers measured support for future membership.
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A Moroccan blogger is fined and jailed for two years for showing disrespect to the monarchy.
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The UN says it will start moving its staff out of Sri Lanka's rebel held north after the government ordered aid agencies to leave.
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A Scotsman employed in Germany as a postal worker hoarded or disposed of at least 20,000 letters, police say.
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President George W Bush orders 8,000 US soldiers back from Iraq and 4,500 reinforcements to go to Afghanistan by February.
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A black American dancer with a Muslim first name was made to dance by Israeli airport security staff before they let him into the country, reports say.
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French carmaker Renault announces 6,000 job cuts, as it responds to an industry-wide slowdown in sales.
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Brent crude goes below $100 a barrel for the first time since April, as Opec is expected to leave output levels unchanged.
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The race to succeed resigned Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda begins on Wednesday, after his shock resignation last week.
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Zambia will hold an election on 30 October to choose a successor to President Levy Mwanawasa.
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