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British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 65, succeeds on his third attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Indonesia must focus on the threat posed by Islamists even as the regional threat declines, says the International Crisis Group.
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An alert goes out to police across the US as a mother flees with her cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy.
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Police in New Zealand seek a couple who disappeared after a banking error deposited NZ$10m in their account.
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The US Senate overwhelmingly rejects plans to move detainees out of Guantanamo Bay and refuses funds to close it down.
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Health officials in Japan confirm the first two cases of swine flu in the country's densely populated capital, Tokyo.
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Sri Lanka's reconciliation minister, a former rebel, vows polls will be held in Tamil-majority areas once displaced people are resettled.
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The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland says anyone responsible for abuse of children should be held to account.
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Williams' Nico Rosberg goes quickest in second practice for the Monaco Grand Prix, as world champion Lewis Hamilton impresses in his McLaren.
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South Korea's Supreme Court upholds a landmark ruling giving an elderly brain-dead woman the right to die.
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Burma bars international observers from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them in.
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A shift in British government policy over settlement rights for Gurkha veterans is expected to be announced later.
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A senior member of the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl.
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Pakistan public turn against Taliban 'gangsters'
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Bangladesh orders an inquiry into the deaths of 21 border guards held in custody after a mutiny in February that killed nearly 100.
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An aid agency in Thailand says it is closing a camp for about 5,000 ethnic Hmong refugees, citing military intimidation.
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Four men are arrested as they allegedly attempt to plant bombs near two New York synagogues, US prosecutors say.
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Guantanamo is a "misguided experiment" and a "mess" that must be cleaned up, US President Barack Obama has said. Do you agree with him?
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Five police officers are fired in Alabama after footage emerged of them beating an unconscious suspect after a car crash.
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As the Pakistani offensive against the Taliban continues, Barbara Plett has been speaking to some of the people who have been displaced by the conflict.
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Africa's longest-serving leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, is said to be seriously ill in hospital in Spain.
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Donors offer $224m in aid for Pakistan's displaced as PM Yusuf Raza Gilani appeals for urgent cash to help two million people.
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Shoaib Akhtar is withdrawn from Pakistan's squad for the World Twenty20 tournament because of a genital infection.
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The Czech government voices outrage over the broadcast of an anti-Roma campaign advert by a far-right group on national TV.
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Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa and a security guard are sentenced to death for killing Lebanese star Suzanne Tamim.
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Colombian security forces arrest 112 suspected members of one of the country's most powerful drugs cartels.
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Georgian police have shot dead a man suspected of playing a key role in a mutiny at a military base earlier this month, officials say.
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At least 23 people, including three US soldiers, are killed in deadly bombings in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk.
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Israeli police destroy an unauthorised outpost in the West Bank, amid rising US pressure to halt settlement activity.
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Williams' Nico Rosberg and Brawn's Rubens Barrichello set the fastest times in Thursday's two practice sessions for the Monaco GP.
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Paul Martin remembers the events of May 1979, the first time that Egyptians and Israelis were allowed to cross between the two countries by land.
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US Vice-President Joe Biden gets a warm welcome in Kosovo and says its independence is "absolutely irreversible".
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A Spanish judge reinstates charges against three US soldiers over the killing of a cameraman in the Iraq war.
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Malaysian PM Najib Razak outlines plans to dismantle the decades-old affirmative action programme for ethnic Malays.
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A man who entered entered Serbia's presidential offices with a live hand grenade has been disarmed, reports say.
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Suspected Maoist rebels in India kill 16 police personnel in a gun battle in the western state of Maharashtra, police say.
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Colonial attitudes linger 200 years after independence
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Boom-and-bust Latvia caught in capitalist whirlwind
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Iran announces details of a series of debates between presidential candidates in the run up to the election on 12 June.
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Civilian horror at military air strikes in Nigeria's oil region
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South Africa appoints a little-known police officer to head the serious crimes agency that replaced the Scorpions unit.
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Military parades, political protests and bloody clashes mark the beginning of Yemen's Unity Day celebrations.
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US president's speech a 'rebuke' to George Bush
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The US will find a way to cope securely with dangerous inmates at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama has said.
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Sri Lanka pledges to resettle most of the 280,000 Tamils displaced by the civil war in six months.
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One opposition leader accepts that Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has been re-elected but another claims rigging.
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The Tanzanian man held in Guantanamo Bay over the 1998 East Africa bombings is to be put on trial in New York.
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Global stock markets slide after a warning that the UK's top credit rating is at risk raises fears about debt levels.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Jerusalem will never again be divided, as he marks 42 years of annexation.
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Four men accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and fire missiles at aircraft were 'eager to kill Jews', a US court hears.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales calls for a complete overhaul of his country's strained ties with the United States.
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A former US soldier convicted of rape and murder in Iraq is spared the death penalty by a jury in the state of Kentucky.
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A Somali man arrested over the kidnap of a US captain pleads not guilty to 10 charges including piracy in a New York court.
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Vietnam art world confused by originals and copies
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the US will not be able to cut emissions as much as needed due to domestic opposition.
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