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Fires in Brazil destroy dozens of sawmills and at least 100 houses, leaving residents to survive on the streets.
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French officials lambast a senior army officer who was filmed on YouTube ordering a Togolese journalist to delete images of a protest.
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Canadian authorities board a ship thought to be carrying about 500 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka off the coast of British Columbia.
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Growth figures for the Eurozone area are expected to show signs of recovery, despite the Greek debt crisis.
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A former director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, has told the BBC that the shift to sharing intelligence has made a leak of tens of thousands of secret US military documents "inevitable".
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Peru sends medical teams to the Amazon to tackle a rabies outbreak after vampire bats bite 500 people and four children die.
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More than 10,000 people in China's Inner Mongolia set a new world record for human dominoes.
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Two Malaysian men are found guilty of setting fire to a church in January in a row over the non-Muslim use of the word "Allah".
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Fighting in Afghanistan's northern regions is less intense than in the south, allowing for more aid and development to get through
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Pictures of taking on roaming rebels in Central African Republic
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Writer and broadcast Stephen Fry is to appear in a one-man show in London scripted by suggestions from his Twitter followers.
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A couple has been sent to prison in Los Angeles over bribing a Thai official so they could run the Bangkok Film Festival.
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Torrential rain brings landslides to more areas in China, as relief teams in devastated Zhouqu county battle against the bad weather.
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Rain is continuing to disrupt rescue efforts in Zhouqu county, in Gansu province in China, after a landslide on Sunday killed more than 1,100 people. Footage from state television shows the force of the floodwater as a boat is swept under a bridge.
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Bolivia's government rejects demands that President Evo Morales meet protesters to end unrest in Potosi.
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Rescue efforts are continuing in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, after a condemned building collapsed, killing at least 14 people.
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A small executive jet crashed at Rio's domestic Santos Dumont airport on Thursday morning. All three people aboard were rescued without serious injuries.
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UK star-gazers have reported seeing dozens of shooting stars as the Perseid meteor shower reached its climax overnight.
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Nigeria's governing party agrees that President Goodluck Jonathan has the right to contest next year's elections, overturning a party rule.
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Germany's economy grew at its fastest rate for more than 20 years from April to June, outpacing eurozone neighbours and the UK.
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Burma's first general election for two decades will be held on 7 November, the ruling generals announce, ending months of speculation.
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Forest fires have now reached northern Spain, killing two firefighters.
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An Afghan National Army operation - initially run independently of Nato - in the eastern province of Laghman goes "disastrously wrong", officials say.
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Danny Boyle's mountain thriller 127 Hours will close the BFI London Film Festival on 28 October.
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Aiden McGeady completes his £9.5m switch from Celtic to Spartak Moscow, signing a four-and-half-year deal with the Russian club.
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At least four protesters are killed in violence between police and anti-government demonstrators in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Four bodies are found in an unused shaft of a mine run by relatives of South Africa's president and Nelson Mandela, after an earlier shooting.
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Norway's Øya festival aims to become first powered by renewable energy
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A veteran Russian human rights campaigner, Lev Ponomarev, is admitted to hospital after a police crackdown in Moscow.
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The Young Communist League of Cuba has celebrated former president Fidel Castro's 84th birthday with a big concert that lasted until the early hours of Friday morning.
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Flood levels in Pakistan are expected to surge even higher later along parts of the swollen Indus river in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
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The former head of Nigeria's Intercontinental Bank is formally charged with financial crimes relating to bank's near collapse.
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Germany frees on bail a suspected Israeli agent arrested in connection with the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
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US retail sales rose in July after two months of declines, largely due to an increase in car sales, figures show.
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The first trial at Guantanamo Bay under US President Barack Obama is suspended after the defence lawyer faints in court.
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Talks to try to avert a strike that would close six of the UK's major airports will begin on Monday, conciliation service Acas confirms.
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Flood levels in Pakistan are expected to surge even higher later, along parts of the swollen Indus river in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
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Two soldiers serving in Afghanistan's Helmand province have died after separate incidents, the MoD says.
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Rangers sign former England striker James Beattie from Stoke for an undisclosed fee.
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Chelsea are set to complete the signing of Brazil international midfielder Ramires from Benfica on Friday.
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An Iranian-made television series about the life of Christ being shown on two Lebanese channels has been taken off air after complaints from Christians.
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China's government is investigating reports that a brand of powdered milk caused infant girls to grow breasts. The allegations have been strongly denied by the firm that makes the product.
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Russia says it will undertake a key step next week towards starting up a reactor at Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr.
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Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais announces that a Chinese version of hit sitcom The Office is in development.
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Boniface is one of the founders of the motorcycle boys in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho, a group of former thieves who now provide a taxi service.
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Thriller writer says US spies knocked out wife's computer over Guinea-Bissau coup
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President Barack Obama signs into law a bill to increase security along the US-Mexico border, a day after it was passed by the Senate.
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French authorities call for an inquiry into allegations that Easyjet barred disabled passengers from flying unaccompanied.
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A court martial finds the former Sri Lankan armed forces chief, General Sarath Fonseka, guilty of engaging in politics while on active service.
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A runaway train goes through six stops on a 13-minute journey on London's Tube with other trains having to be cleared out of its path.
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Officials in Sierra Leone ask for the return of diamonds allegedly given by Charles Taylor to supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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The US government says BP will continue drilling a relief well to permanently plug the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Skydivers in Poland have broken the European record for the number of people in a formation when 104 people joined together in the air.
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US Senate candidate Alvin Greene, a surprise winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, is indicted on two pornography-related charges.
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A man arrested in connection with a series of nearly 20 stabbings agrees to return to Michigan to face charges in one of the attacks.
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Tyson Gay's stunning victory in the 100m is the stand-out performance at a soggy Diamond League meeting at London's Crystal Palace.
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Two major South American airlines, Brazil's TAM Linhas Aereas and Chile's LAN, plan a merger that will create the biggest carrier in the region.
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Colombia offers $270,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of car bombers who hit the city of Bogota on Thursday.
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Overweight people are more likely to make frequent trips to their GP than smokers or those who are generally unfit, say Dutch researchers.
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A US court awards the company that salvaged artefacts from the Titanic $110m for its efforts, but has yet to decide how the sum will be funded.
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American Matt Kuchar leads the USPGA Championship after a fog-curtailed second day, with Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy tied for third and Tiger Woods tied for 36th.
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