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Looking for penguins? Try tracking their droppings by satellite

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 0:17
related countries: Antarctica

Scientists locate 38 emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica using satellites to look for stains from the animals' droppings.
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Obama wants Queen at D-Day event

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 2:04
related countries: France, United States
related places: Queen

US President Barack Obama is trying to secure an invitation for the Queen to attend official D-Day commemorations in France on Saturday.
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Obama hopeful on Mid-East peace

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 5:02
related countries: United Kingdom, United States

President Barack Obama tells the BBC he believes the US can get serious Middle East peace negotiations back on track.
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Inside Hezbollah

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 5:28
related countries: Lebanon

BBC gains access to a fighter from the Lebanese militia
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UN rejects Sri Lanka toll cover-up

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 6:16
related countries: Sri Lanka

The UN secretary general rejects claims that the UN covered up a high civilian death toll during the last phase of conflict in Sri Lanka.
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Atlantic searched for lost plane

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 6:37
related countries: France, Brazil

Rescuers from several nations search waters deep in the Atlantic for an airliner missing since Monday with 228 on board.
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Australia mulls race crime laws

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 6:39
related countries: India, Aruba

Australian authorities consider imposing tougher sentences for hate crimes after a spate of attacks on Indian students.
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N Korea 'names Kim's successor'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 6:57
related countries: South Korea, North Korea

Media reports from South Korea say North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has chosen his youngest son to succeed him.
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Switzerland goes into recession

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 7:07
related countries: Switzerland

Switzerland enters recession after its economy contracted 0.8% in the first three months of 2009.
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Indonesia presidential race opens

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 8:04
related countries: Indonesia

Campaigning has begun in Indonesia's presidential election, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono the front-runner.
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Guantanamo files 'must be public'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 9:33
related countries: United States

A US judge orders the release of unclassified evidence relating to more than 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Greenland votes in landmark polls

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 9:40
related countries: Greenland, Denmark

Greenland is voting in parliamentary elections seen as a turning-point on the territory's path to self-rule from Denmark.
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'Pumpkin' trial opens in NZ

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 9:42
related countries: New Zealand, Australia

A man who allegedly abandoned his child 'Pumpkin' in Australia pleads not guilty at his wife's New Zealand murder trial.
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Former US first lady 'still sees late husband Ronald and they talk'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 9:48
related countries: United States
related places: Ronald

The former US first lady says she still "sees" her husband Ronald, and has conversations with him, she tells a US magazine.
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Can Obama improve ties with Muslims?

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 9:54
related countries: Egypt, United States

President Obama has called for a new beginning in US relations with the Muslim world. Is this achievable?
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Kaka keen to remain at AC Milan

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 10:26
related countries: Spain, Botswana

Brazilian playmaker Kaka insists he wants to stay at AC Milan, despite speculation linking him with Chelsea or Real Madrid.
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More bodies in South Africa mine

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 10:29
related countries: South Africa

Another 25 bodies are found in a South African mine, where 36 illegal miners were killed at the weekend.
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Eight shot dead in Turkish flat

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 10:58
related countries: Turkey
related places: Adana

Eight people, including three children, have been found shot dead in the southern Turkish city of Adana, officials say.
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SA 'denies care to Zimbabweans'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 11:34
related countries: South Africa

Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa are being denied medical care, says medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Live - Murray v Gonzalez

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 11:45
related countries: France

Britain's Andy Murray trails Fernando Gonzalez of Chile by two sets to one in the quarter-final at Roland Garros.
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Salvador leftist leader sworn in

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 13:21
related countries: El Salvador

Left-wing former journalist Mauricio Funes restores ties with Cuba hours after being sworn-in as president of El Salvador.
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China blocks Twitter and Hotmail

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 13:29
related countries: China

China blocks websites and arrests a dissident ahead of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on Tiananmen protests.
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Ukraine bank explosion injures 22

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 13:36
related countries: Ukraine

An explosion at a bank in southern Ukraine has left at least 22 people injured, officials say.
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In pictures

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 13:45
related countries: South Africa

How false limb clinics bring relief in South Africa
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Abducted Pakistani students freed

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 13:53
related countries: Pakistan

Dozens of students abducted by militants in the north-west of the Pakistan are released, the military and college staff say.
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Pakistan releases 'top militant'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 14:36
related countries: Pakistan

A Pakistan court orders the release of an Islamic charity head suspected of links to a group accused of the Mumbai attacks.
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Somalia crisis 'Africa's worst'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 15:47
related countries: Somalia

The "very dire" humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa for many years, the aid agency Oxfam warns.
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Safina fights back to reach semis

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 15:52
related countries: Belarus, France, Seychelles

Top seed Dinara Safina survives a stern test from Belarus teenager Victoria Azarenka and will play Dominika Cibulkova in the French Open semi-finals
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Shoe thrower cleared of offence

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 16:17
related countries: Germany, United Kingdom, China
related places: Cambridge

A Cambridge student who threw a shoe at the Chinese PM is cleared by a judge who said the evidence of harassment was insufficient.
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Man jailed for killing aid worker

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 16:28
related countries: Iraq

A member of the gang that kidnapped and murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq in 2004 is jailed for life.
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Inspired Gonzalez sees off Murray

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 16:47
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Andy Murray's French Open hopes are ended by Fernando Gonzalez, who outclasses him to reach the semi-finals.
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More alcohol deaths in Indonesia

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 17:05
related countries: Indonesia

Four foreigners die of alcohol poisoning in Indonesia, after drinking a local wine spiked with methanol.
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Eyes right

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 17:26
related countries: Hong Kong

Rural appeal of Hungarian nationalism
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EU 'to back plan to save Gdansk'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 17:50
related countries: Poland
related places: Gdansk

The EU's competition commissioner says she is confident it will approve a plan to save Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard.
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Contrite US tourist returns medieval Jerusalem stone

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 18:45
related countries: United States
related places: Jerusalem

An US man returns 21-kg chunk of medieval pillar that he took from Jerusalem's Old City 12 years ago.
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UK home secretary 'to step down'

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 19:38
related countries: United Kingdom

Jacqui Smith is to stand down as the UK's home secretary in a cabinet reshuffle expected in the next week, sources say.
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Ford market share grows in the US

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 20:08
related countries: United States
related places: May, Ford

Ford, the only big US car makers not to have gone bankrupt, reports its market share in May was the highest since 2006.
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Plane searchers spot ocean debris

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 20:29
related countries: France

Planes searching the Atlantic for a lost French airliner spot a seat and other debris which Brazil says is from the jet.
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US invites Iran to 4 July events

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 20:53
related countries: Iran, United States

The US is to invite Iranian diplomats to Independence Day events at embassies worldwide for the first time since 1980.
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Milan braced for Kaka departure

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 20:58
related countries: Spain, Botswana

AC Milan are struggling to keep hold of star midfielder Kaka as reports emerged that Real Madrid had agreed a world record £56m transfer for the Brazilian.
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Man charged in US doctor killing

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 21:11
related countries: United States
related places: Kansas

A man is charged with the murder of a prominent abortion doctor shot dead during a church service in Kansas in the US.
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Hummer to be sold to Chinese firm

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 21:53
related countries: China

General Motors is to sell its Hummer brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery.
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Strategy key

Tuesday 2nd of June 2009, 23:16
related countries: Pakistan

Why killing militants will not win Pakistan the war
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