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Defending champion Roger Federer and world number three Rafael Nadal are in impressive form on day three of the US Open.
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Japan looks to robots to fill workforce void
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Serena Williams is in action at the US Open after wins for Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams on day three.
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Defending champion Serena Williams gives a stunning display of power tennis as she demolishes Hungary's Melinda Czink in the second round of the US Open.
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A helicopter carrying a powerful Indian politician which disappeared on a flight on Wednesday has been found, officials say.
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Australia records its warmest ever winter - partly caused by climate change - and fears the coming bush fire season.
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A British soldier is killed in southern Afghanistan, the UK's Ministry of Defence says.
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A French-Spanish film-maker who made a documentary about gang life in El Salvador has been shot dead, officials there say.
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Chinese health authorities approve a vaccine that they say prevents swine flu with a single dose.
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Trail-blazing Moroccan Berbers learn their ABCs
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The US urges Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to watch his conduct when he visits the UN in New York later this month.
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Lawyers for Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi launch an appeal against the extension of her house arrest.
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Israel has released nine Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament after the completion of their prison terms.
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Members of a tribal militia in Pakistan's Swat valley kill three suspected militants, police say.
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Attackers kill 17 people in a drug treatment centre near the Mexico-US border, as a top police officer is shot dead in Michoacan.
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Britain declared war on Nazi Germany exactly 70 years ago. What are your memories of the day?
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England's Joe Denly could miss Friday's first one-day international against Australia after injuring his knee playing football.
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Executions mar peace in Pakistan's Swat valley
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Jailed dissidents in Cuba voice support for a controversial peace concert this month in Havana by Colombian star Juanes.
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Security forces in Gabon disperse opposition supporters camped outside the electoral commission awaiting poll results.
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Russia's Supreme Court orders a new investigation into the 2006 killing of the journalist and Kremlin critic, Anna Politkovskaya.
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The controversial figures in Iran's new cabinet
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A journalist flees Russia after suggesting the Arctic Sea ship, apparently hijacked in July, may have been carrying illegal arms.
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MPs approve Iran's first woman minister in 30 years, as they back 18 out of 21 of President Ahmadinejad's cabinet nominees.
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Usain Bolt will focus on the 200m at the final Golden League meeting of the season in Brussels on Friday, with Tyson Gay going in the 100m.
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Systematic discrimination against the Saudi Shia Muslim minority has led to rising sectarian tension, a rights group says.
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Two Pakistani students arrested over unproven terror charges in Britain in April return to Pakistan.
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Forensic experts in Iraq are working to identify a body thought to belong to one of five Britons seized in Baghdad in 2007.
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Somali refugee camps are overcrowded, badly managed and barely fit for humans, says aid agency Oxfam.
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Lewis Hamilton insists he can enjoy a strong end to the 2009 season despite a desperate first half of the campaign.
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Greek PM Costas Karamanlis confirms a snap general election will be held on 4 October, after talks with the president.
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Ali Ben Bongo, son of Gabon's late leader Omar Bongo, is declared the winner of a controversial presidential election.
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Fresh protests take place in China's Xinjiang province, after more than 470 people report being stabbed with syringes.
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Andy Roddick is in action at the US Open after a win for Maria Sharapova but defeats for Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic.
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South Africa's home affairs minister suspends two officials at the funeral of man who killed himself over an identity card.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy dies in a helicopter crash in southern India.
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Afghan election fraud furore intensifies with further allegations of vote-switching.
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Rescuers in Indonesia dig through collapsed buildings for survivors of a powerful earthquake, which has killed at least 57 people.
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The UN and aid agencies say Israel must relax its blockade of Gaza to allow urgent repairs to the water and sewage systems.
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Cameroon's government defends President Paul Biya's lavish holiday in France, reportedly costing $40,000 a day.
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US pastor describes the fear in Mexico's most violent city
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A body handed to UK authorities in Iraq has been identified as that of Alec MacLachlan - one of five Britons seized in Baghdad in 2007.
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An exhibition in Israel showing faces of Palestinian female suicide bombers grafted onto the Virgin Mary is cancelled.
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Dino Boffo, the editor of Avvenire, a leading Italian Catholic newspaper, quits in a bitter row involving PM Silvio Berlusconi.
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Dutch police are left red-faced after it turns out a field of cannabis they were destroying was actually a scientific research project.
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The Group of 20 nations must adopt "binding rules" to regulate bank behaviour, the leaders of the UK, France and Germany say.
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Fighting breaks out in Gabon after officials announce the son of late ruler Omar Bongo has won a presidential election.
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The secretary for public security is arrested in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on suspicion of co-operating with drug gangs.
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A night-time curfew is declared in Port Gentil, Gabon, after violence by opposition activists and attacks on French interests.
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