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SpainAs recession bites, Spaniards seek work in the fields
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United StatesThe planet will be in "huge trouble" unless Barack Obama tackles climate change rapidly, says a top US scientist.
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United StatesThe US company General Electric says its staff are more likely to stop smoking if paid cash incentives.
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Senegal, 
Mali, 
Mauritius, 
ChinaChina's president is visiting Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Mauritius, aiming to show China seeks a stronger position in Africa.
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French Polynesia, 
FranceFrench Polynesia's assembly elects Oscar Temaru as the French colony's new president, for the fourth time.
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United Kingdom, SpainDavid Beckham equals Bobby Moore's cap record but England lose 2-0 to Euro 2008 champions Spain in Seville.
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SpainDavid Beckham is "honoured to be mentioned in the same breath" as Bobby Moore after equalling the England legend's caps record.
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Pakistan, United StatesUS President Barack Obama and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari vow to keep a "strong partnership".
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Chile, 
CubaPresident Michelle Bachelet makes the first visit to Cuba by a Chilean leader in almost four decades. .
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ChinaThe Beijing fireworks party that went wrong
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GhanaGhana's rocket man aims for the Moon and beyond
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PakistanA senior Pakistani official admits for the first time that deadly attacks in Mumbai were partly planned in Pakistan.
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United StatesUS celebrates Abraham Lincoln's bicentenary
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NigeriaFinancial analysts in Nigeria say the central bank's attempt to stabilise the naira may damage foreign investment.
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ArubaThe Australian Senate rejects the Labor government's A$42bn stimulus plan, as the opposition says it is too expensive.
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ChinaChinese police detain 12 people, including a senior state TV staffer, for a fatal fire at the station's new headquarters in Beijing.
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MexicoMexican soldiers arrest suspected members of a drug cartel hit squad over the murder and torture of a former general.
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Aruba, ChinaAnglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto says China's state-owned Chinalco is to invest a further $19.5bn in the business.
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Russia, United StatesUS and Russian satellites collide in space, creating a cloud of debris above Siberia in the first reported accident of its kind.
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Netherlands, United KingdomA Dutch MP who called the Koran a "fascist book" plans to travel to the UK despite being banned on public security grounds.
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Belgium, 
RwandaA court in Belgium decides not to proceed with a prosecution of two Rwandan generals.
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United StatesPope Benedict says Holocaust denial is intolerable, as he meets Jewish leaders over a controversial bishop's comments.
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IndiaAn Indian businessman and his servant are convicted of murdering a young girl in a case involving the deaths of 19 people.
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United StatesThe Kercher murder prosecutor hits out at suspect Amanda Knox's US supporters who say he is "mentally unstable".
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FranceFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy "proposed" to Carla Bruni within two hours of meeting the former model, it has been claimed.
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IsraelIsrael is to allow 25,000 flowers to be sent from Gaza to Europe for Valentine's Day, the first export from the territory in a year.
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GeorgiaMany opposition figures in Georgia are blaming the president, Mikhail Saakashvili, for the country's troubles. Ray Furlong joined him on a tour of the country and found a man defiantly optimistic.
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United StatesUS retail sales unexpectedly increased by 1% in January, which economists suggest is due to New Year discounting.
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ItalyAndy Murray continues his quest for glory in Rotterdam as he faces Italian Andreas Seppi.
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Pakistan, IndiaA senior Pakistani official admits for the first time that deadly attacks in Mumbai were partly planned in Pakistan.
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AlgeriaAlgerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announces he will seek a third term in office in elections in April.
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ZimbabweHuman rights group Amnesty International urges the new coalition government in Zimbabwe to free all political prisoners.
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GermanyHow Berlin's artist squatters hope to turn landlords
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IndiaIndian army's latest enemy is a shortage of men
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ChinaA Chinese food group at the centre of a contaminated milk scandal is declared bankrupt with debts of $160m.
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Philippines, 
IndonesiaPhilippine troops arrest two men suspected of supporting the Indonesian militant group, Jemaah Islamiah.
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IraqA bomb attack in Iraq has killed several Shia pilgrims, while in the northern city of Mosul, four police were killed by a car bomb.
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Kenya, 
SomaliaA ship recently freed by Somali pirates arrives in Kenya to offload arms, amid controversy over its cargo.
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United StatesPope Benedict says Holocaust denial is intolerable, as he meets US Jewish leaders over a controversial bishop's comments.
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Afghanistan, United StatesThe US has failed to keep proper records of many thousands of weapons shipped to Afghanistan, a report says.
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Pakistan, IndiaIndia says Pakistan's admission the Mumbai attacks were partly planned on its soil is a "positive development".
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KenyaKenyan MPs vote against a bill to set up an election violence tribunal, saying suspects should be tried at The Hague.
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IsraelThe final results of Israel's election confirm that neither of the two main parties can form a government on its own.
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United StatesEvents are being held across the US to mark 200 years since former President Abraham Lincoln was born.
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LiberiaLiberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf apologises to a truth commission over her backing for ex-rebel Charles Taylor.
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LiberiaLiberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf apologises to a truth commission over her backing for ex-rebel Charles Taylor.
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Sri LankaThe Red Cross evacuates a further 160 sick and wounded people trapped by fighting in northern Sri Lanka.
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ZimbabweZimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai spends his first full day in office visiting political prisoners, his spokesman says.
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Switzerland, 
HaitiSwitzerland says it will return the assets of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier for use on development projects.
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ColombiaClaims of 10 members of the Awa tribe in Colombia being killed, after the reported murder last week of 17.
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RussiaFour Russian policemen and three suspected rebels die in fighting in Ingushetia, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus.
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United StatesThe top US intelligence official, Dennis Blair, says that the global economic crisis is the main threat facing America.
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Netherlands, United KingdomControversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders is sent home after landing at Heathrow, calling it a "sad day" for democracy.
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MexicoSven-Goran Eriksson is given the "total support" of the Mexican Football Federation after Mexico's World Cup qualifying defeat to the United States.
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Switzerland, 
Brazil, 
BotswanaBrazil summons the Swiss envoy over an alleged skinhead attack in Zurich on a pregnant Brazilian woman.
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Aruba, 
SeychellesAustralia plans to remove obstacles to a nationwide fire alert system, in the wake of the devastating bushfires.
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IrelandIrish playwright Hugh Leonard, whose father-and-son drama Da won acclaim on Broadway, dies at 82.
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