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Warmer winters worry those in Russia's far north
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Colombian is to free two former leftist guerrillas who have renounced violence and intend to work for peace.
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An artist in the Netherlands sets up a telephone number to allow people to call God - but they will have to leave a message.
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The UN Security Council reaches no agreement on a call for Sudan to reverse a decision to expel aid agencies from Darfur.
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England skipper Andrew Strauss remains confident of bowling the West Indies out twice, despite an attritional first day of the fifth Test in Trinidad.
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The UK military situation in Afghanistan is 'worthless' and similar to the Vietnam war, an ex-SAS commander claims.
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Iran would consider a US invitation to a conference on Afghanistan later this month, a government spokesman says.
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Italy's hardline immigration policies under fire
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Afghanistan's president says he now accepts polls must be delayed to August, but insists he will remain in office until then.
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Mohammed Hanif reflects on the attack carried out on Pakistan's "religion above religion".
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Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai remains in hospital after a car crash on Friday in which his wife Susan was killed.
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In Washington, Kevin Connolly tries to navigate the minefield of leaving a tip.
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Owen Bennett-Jones finds that the antagonism between Sudan's rulers and the outside world is nothing new.
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DR Congo beat Ghana 2-0 to win the inaugural African Nations Championship - their first continental title for 35 years.
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Russian media pokes fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to the Russian foreign minister.
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Russian media pokes fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to the Russian foreign minister.
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Zimbabwe's MDC party says it will carry out its own investigation into the cause of the crash which killed PM Tsvangirai's wife Susan.
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The US and Russia say they will seek to agree a new strategic arms reduction treaty by the end of 2009.
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The Bishop of Cloyne 'stands aside' to aid an investigation into the handling of allegations of clerical sex abuse in his diocese.
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England post 546-6 declared on day two of fifth Test against West Indies.
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President Barack Obama will visit Turkey "in a month or so", says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Ankara.
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Police in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur fire tear gas to disperse a rally against the use of English in the country's schools.
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Eight people, mostly police and soldiers, are dead after reportedly being lured to a booby-trapped car in north-western Pakistan.
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A senior Vatican cleric defends a Brazilian archbishop's excommunication of people who helped a child have an abortion.
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A senior US envoy in Damascus says the first high-level contact with Syria in four years has been 'very constructive'.
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A UK resident held at Guantanamo releases memos he says show UK intelligence colluded in his interrogation.
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Paul Collingwood and Matt Prior make centuries as England take a lead of 454 over West Indies in Trinidad.
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Dutch officials find 17th and 19th Century paintings by Renoir and other artists that have been missing since 1987.
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Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai has flown to Botswana to recover after the car crash that killed his wife, his party says.
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Paul Collingwood says England will look to utilise a deteriorating pitch to win the fifth Test against West Indies.
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