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Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond travels to Norway in a bid to strengthen trade links.
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Martin Kaymer wins the USPGA in a play-off with Bubba Watson after Dustin Johnson is controversially penalised in the USPGA.
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Government plans to hold local referendums on new housing schemes in England could tear village communities apart, rural campaigners say.
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Moscow has been covered in a blanket of smog for the second time in a month, as the smoke from forest fires across Russia returned to the capital on Sunday.
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Tiger Woods fails to qualify for one of the automatic spots on the US Ryder Cup team following the USPGA on Sunday.
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One of the best-known writers and public figures in Saudi Arabia, Ghazi Algosaibi, dies of cancer at the age of 70.
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A senior Greek government official has told the BBC that domestic terrorism and strikes have had a devastating impact on tourism.
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim loses an attempt to have sodomy charges against him dropped.
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Thousands of military personnel from the US and South Korea launch the latest in a series of military exercises, despite warnings from Pyongyang.
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Finland has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the world but they could be about to get tougher.
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Israel begins to tear down a concrete wall erected nine years ago to protect the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem.
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Famed as one of Germany's most important religious figures, Martin Luther spent many years in the town of Wittenberg, where a statue commemorates him.
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Thai police are searching for a British man they suspect murdered an American fellow Thai boxing expert.
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Opticians are concerned that teenagers in the US could be putting their eyesight at risk by using controversial contact lenses styled on a Lady Gaga video.
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Two suspected militants and a soldier die in a gun battle in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
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Mysterious German adoption case scares parents of missing children
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A "honeymoon suite" for two rare rhinos has opened at a Nepal zoo in the latest attempt to encourage the pair to mate.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor receives her last rites from a priest in a Los Angeles hospital after surgery to remove two blood clots.
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Andy Murray believes his victory in the Rogers Cup is excellent preparation for the US Open, which begins on 30 August.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard officially launches her election campaign in Brisbane, five days ahead of polling day.
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Agricultural Bank of China raised a world record $22.1bn (£14.4bn) when it floated its shares last month.
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Veteran action movie The Expendables goes straight to the top of the US box office chart on its debut, raking in $35m.
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Economic growth in Japan has weakened significantly, growing just 0.1% between April and June, quarterly GDP figures reveal.
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Actor Elliott Tittensor, who plays Carl Gallagher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless, is arrested after an alleged hit-and-run incident.
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War crimes prosecutors in Cambodia appeal against a 35-year sentence for an ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief, saying it is too lenient.
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A major diamond firm holds to its trade ban on Zimbabwe's diamonds, despite an official sale, and threatens traders with expulsion.
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The coalition government has confirmed its intention to end most mixed-sex hospital accommodation in England.
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Gabon signs deals to diversify its economy in an attempt to be less reliable on its dwindling oil reserves.
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A new book by a Chinese dissident about Premier Wen Jiabao, which challenges his image as a reformist, goes on sale in Hong Kong.
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Seventeen leaders of Thailand's anti-government protest movement plead not guilty to terrorism charges and inciting violence.
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Will stricter gun laws prevent another mass shooting in Finland?
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Russia's record-breaking heatwave looks set to come to a dramatic end, with a severe storm now heading for Moscow after battering St Petersburg.
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Reading and Leeds Festival organisers say Axl's Twitter account was hacked and Guns N' Roses will play UK dates.
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Iran will start building a new uranium enrichment site by early next year, the country's top nuclear official says.
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Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider will miss the remaining Tests against England because of a broken finger.
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A group of intellectuals and politicians calls on France to repay 17bn euros (£14bn) "extorted" from Haiti in the 19th Century.
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Cairn Energy plans to sell a maximum 51% of its Indian operations to mining group Vedanta for up to $8.5bn.
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Talks on forming a coalition government between Iraq's two main political blocs are suspended, five months after an inconclusive election.
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Virender Sehwag hits an unbeaten 99 as India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the triangular series in Dambulla.
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Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan as a result of the country's devastating floods, the UN says.
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A senior Romanian diplomat is detained in Russia, accused by the FSB security agency of spying.
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German singer Nadja Benaissa admits at her trial to having unprotected sex with several men without warning them she was HIV-positive.
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Up to 40 people are believed to have been killed on a Nigerian motorway when a lorry loaded with sugar crashed into a police checkpoint and burst into flames.
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A couple accused of an adulterous affair are killed in public on Taliban orders in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, officials say.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the United States will definitely start reducing the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan next July.
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Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan following the country's floods says the United Nations.
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Barclays Bank is to pay $298m (£190m) to settle criminal charges that it violated US sanctions in dealings with Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma.
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A US consular team has gained access to an American sentenced to hard labour in North Korea, Washington says.
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Angelina Jolie has been on the red carpet in London for the premiere of her latest film 'Salt'. She speaks to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba.
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The US will require an environmental assessment for new deep-water offshore drilling, government regulators say.
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Igor Sutyagin, one of the Russians who arrived in the UK last month as part of the biggest "spy swap" since the end of the Cold War has been speaking to the BBC
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Lori Berenson, an American who was sentenced in Peru for collaborating with left-wing rebels, has apologised for her actions.
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The German pop singer Nadja Benaissa has confessed to having unprotected sex without warning her lovers that she was HIV-positive during the opening of her trial in Darmstadt.
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Wheel clampers are to be banned from operating on private land in England and Wales, a minister tells the BBC.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has officially launched her election campaign in Brisbane, five days ahead of polling day
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The state of Israel is responsible for the death of a Palestinian girl hit by a rubber bullet in 2007 and must pay compensation, a court rules.
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A Hungarian Catholic priest who preaches the Lord's word from a skateboard has become a YouTube sensation.
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The mayor of the northern Mexican city of Santiago has been abducted, police say.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposes plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks, days after Barack Obama defended them.
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The unwitting Taiwanese businessmen jailed in China
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