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A businessman avoids jail for his role in a scheme involving illegal payments to Saddam Hussein's regime.
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US President Barack Obama's choice for a top intelligence job withdraws following questions about his knowledge of CIA interrogations techniques
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Why did 76 people die in a South African gold mine?
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The US charges a former government official and his wife with spying for Cuba over a 30-year period.
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Stasi spy fired shot that changed Germany
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Felipe Massa aims to take pole position for the fourth year running at the Turkish Grand Prix after topping final practice.
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Campaigning closes for Lebanon's fiercely-contested elections, with voting set to begin on Sunday amid tight security.
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Two arrested aides to radical cleric Sufi Mohammed are killed in an ambush by militants in Pakistan, the army says.
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British PM Gordon Brown waits to see if his cabinet reshuffle quells unrest among Labour MPs after a tumultuous week.
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Ferrari's Felipe Massa is quickest in a tight final practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix.
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Mohammed Hanif explains the extraordinary turnaround in support for the Taliban across Pakistan after the militants made a surprising public relations disaster.
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Alex Kirby discovers the economic and strategic challenges facing the former Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan.
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As General Motors becomes the biggest industrial bankruptcy in the history of the US, Greg Wood assesses the impact on Detroit.
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New Zealand face Scotland at The Oval on the second day of the ICC World Twenty20.
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A presidential candidate and a former defence minister are shot dead by soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on suspicion of plotting a coup.
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At least 38 children die after a fire sweeps through a day-care centre in Mexico's north-western Sonora state, officials say.
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The US will not reward North Korea's "extraordinarily provocative" recent actions, President Barack Obama says.
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Troops in the Philippines seize a separatist camp and killed 30 rebels on Mindanao island, the country's military says.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova beats world number one and fellow Russian Dinara Safina to win her second Grand Slam title at the French Open in Paris.
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Officials in New York find the decomposing body of a man inside a van parked beneath a highway overpass, gathering parking tickets.
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At least one person has been killed in a blast at a police building in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, reports say.
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Chris Gayle hits 88 off 50 balls as West Indies thrash Australia by seven wickets in the ICC World Twenty20.
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The Republic of Ireland's governing party has had a drop in support in the local elections, early results indicate.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of murdered US abortion doctor George Tiller in the Kansas city of Wichita.
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Gunmen in the Central African Republic attack a north-eastern military base, killing at least two people.
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Nine Peruvian police officers seized by indigenous protesters in Bagua are reported dead after a rescue bid which frees 22 others.
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Barbers thrive in Pakistan's Swat valley, post-Taliban
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