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Troubled US insurance giant AIG agrees to demands from the Obama administration to reduce future bonus payments.
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The latest in bullet-proof fashion reaches India
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Mexican police find at least nine bodies buried on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.
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Two senior Israeli envoys attend talks in Cairo aimed at securing the release of captured soldier, Gilad Shalit.
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Pakistan's main opposition party says its leader Nawaz Sharif has been put under house arrest, but the government denies this.
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Further demonstrations are expected in Madagascar as President Marc Ravalomanana ignores opposition calls to resign.
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The G20 summit in London is critical if the world wishes to avoid the turbulence seen in the 1930s, the UK warns.
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Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana offers to hold a referendum to resolve the country's political crisis.
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How criticism of Israel hurt Obama's intelligence choice
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Half of the beaches affected by an oil spill along the coast of north-east Australia have been cleared, say officials.
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Martin Johnson's England are running rampant against a poor France at Twickenham.
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The Maldives leader says his country will be carbon-neutral within a decade by switching to renewable energy.
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UK web firms aiming for digital innovation
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Oil ministers from the 12 Opec countries meeting in Vienna have decided to keep oil production at current levels.
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A spectator shoots dead an Iraqi footballer, as he is about to score an equalising goal in the last minute of a match.
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European peacekeepers in Chad hand over operations to a larger UN force at a ceremony.
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England beat France 34-10 with some magnificent attacking rugby in a five-try rout at Twickenham.
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A roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan kills four US soldiers, Nato-led peacekeeping forces confirm.
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Uganda begins withdrawing soldiers sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo to pursue Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
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Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif defies what he says was an "illegal" house arrest order to keep him in Lahore.
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Police say the number of republican dissidents trying to wreck the Northern Ireland peace process is about 300.
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The West Indies begin well chasing down a target of 122 in the Twenty20 international against England in Trinidad.
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England manager Martin Johnson urges his side to continue their improvement after seeing them hand out a 34-10 Six Nations hiding to France.
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Police in Moscow arrest nearly 700 football fans after violence at a match at the start of the country's Premier League.
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Ramnaresh Sarwan hits a stylish 59 as West Indies beat England by six wickets in the Twenty20 international.
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Four South Korean tourists visiting Yemen die in an explosion while posing for photographs at an historic fortress.
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Two Israeli traffic policemen are killed in the first fatal shooting of Israelis in the West Bank in nearly a year.
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All cameras on Austria as Fritzl trial begins
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