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Scores of mourners file into the Anchorage Baptist Temple for the funeral of former US Senator Ted Stevens, who was killed in a plane crash.
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Thailand three months after the crackdown on the "red shirts"
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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 50 Aztec children during excavations for a new subway line in Mexico City.
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A bull jumped into the stands at a bullring in northern Spain injuring up to 40 people.
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Criticism is mounting of France's move to expel hundreds of Roma gypsies.
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India's army accuses Pakistani troops of firing across the Line of Control that divides the disputed region of Kashmir.
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A court in Australia says a Muslim woman must remove her full veil while giving evidence in a fraud case.
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Seventy years on from the Battle of Britain, Evan Davis took to the skies to find out what flying in a Spitfire is really like.
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North Korea says that a South Korean fishing boat that it seized earlier this month was poaching in its exclusive economic zone.
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Tom Brook looks at a new film that was shot inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
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The huge reverse brain drain of Indian IT experts from the US
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The world's biggest mobile operator, China Mobile, reports a 4% rise in profits, slightly ahead of analysts' expectations.
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Police raiding a marijuana farm in western Canada were astonished to find black bears apparently guarding it.
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An Indian court has granted bail to the chairman of fraud-hit Satyam Computers, Ramalinga Raju.
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Why asylum is Australia's 'toxic' election issue
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A US Catholic diocese is sued for negligence for allowing a convicted child abuser to continue working in a California church.
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Sonia Gandhi, the head of India's governing Congress party, warns those found guilty of corruption in the Commonwealth Games will be punished.
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A Brazilian court upholds $3m (£1.93m) fine on a company accused of keeping workers in slave-like conditions.
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General Motors has paved the way for an initial public offering, expected to be the second largest share sale in US history.
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A bull leaps out of the arena at a Spanish bullring and rampages through the crowd, injuring 40 people.
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Seven people are killed in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic violence last year.
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General Motors has paved the way for an initial public offering, expected to be the second largest, perhaps even the largest, share sale in US history.
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The BBC's Lyse Doucet has visited a relief operation in flood-hit Pakistan as the UN holds a special session on the disaster.
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Brazil's three main presidential candidates take part in the first online debate as they campaign for October's elections.
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A month-long ban has begun in Venezuela on national newspapers printing what a court ruling has called "violent, bloody or grotesque" images.
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Two more tribal women are stripped and forced to parade naked in front of large crowds in the Indian state of West Bengal, police say.
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The 2011 Tri-Nations will end just two weeks before the start of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
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UK car production fell by 8.9% in July compared with the same month last year, industry figures show, the first drop this year.
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Police are hoping to identify 20 bodies found on Britain's rail network in the last 35 years.
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Greece has met the conditions to receive the second tranche of a 110bn euro rescue loan, the European Commission says.
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About 1,000 long-serving prisoners in Bangladesh are released in a bid to ease overcrowding in jails.
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South African police have fired rubber bullets and water cannons at crowds of striking civil servants.
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The German economy is poised to grow by about 3% this year, says the central Bundesbank.
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The UN is to urge a stronger global response for flood-stricken Pakistan at an emergency meeting in New York.
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Women-only train carriages are launched in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in an attempt to prevent sexual harassment on public transport.
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The US is preparing to release a statement establishing details for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the BBC has learned.
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Two carriages from a passenger train are swept into a river in southern China after floods destroy a bridge, state media says.
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Taiwanese iPhone-maker Foxconn says it will hire more workers in China, so it can maintain production while cutting employees' overtime hours.
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US comic Chelsea Handler is to host this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
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Human rights activists accuse Kenya of secretly sending four terrorism suspects to Uganda after the World Cup bomb blasts in Kampala.
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British number one Andy Murray takes on Latvia's Ernests Gulbis in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters.
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Aston Villa draw with Rapid Vienna before Liverpool host Trabzonspor and Manchester City travel to FC Timisoara on a busy night of Europa League play-off action.
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Canadian economic growth slowed in July amid a decline in the housing market while manufacturing edged up, an economic index shows.
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South Africa's army is called in to protect hospitals from striking public sector workers on an indefinite strike for higher wages.
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Motherwell take on Danish side Odense, Celtic face the Dutch side Utrecht and Dundee United host AEK Athens in Europa League qualifiers.
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A US egg company extends a nationwide food recall to 380 million eggs, after outbreaks of salmonella poisoning in a number of states.
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Guinea-Bissau's president says his citizens are ashamed of being considered incapable of solving the problems of the coup-ridden nation.
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Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali's unbeaten 92 on day two at The Oval leaves England in danger of losing their first Test this summer.
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The last American combat brigade in Iraq leaves the country, two weeks ahead of a deadline for an end to the US combat mission.
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An Australian Olympic swimming legend is criticised for suggesting Delhi's Commonwealth Games could end in a repeat of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
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The last US combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, seven years after the US-led invasion.
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England trail Pakistan by 69 runs after losing Andrew Strauss before stumps on an intriguing day two of the third Test at The Oval.
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Dozens of Roma (Gypsies) are flown back to Romania from France, in the first of a wave of repatriations condemned by rights groups.
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The operation to completely seal off the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is pushed back to September, US officials say.
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The US pledges its full support for flood-hit Pakistan, as a UN session intended to boost the international response gets under way in New York.
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A father is injured while saving his three-year-old daughter from a bear's enclosure in a German zoo.
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Pakistan's flooding crisis is a "slow-motion tsunami", the UN secretary general tells an emergency fund-raising session in New York.
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A new law comes into effect in Mexico City giving the authorities the power to fine shops which give away free plastic bags.
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Energy giant BP is accused of withholding key data needed to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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The Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past at Whitehall.
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The compensation scheme for people affected by the proposed High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham is launched.
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Former Sri Lankan armed forces chief Sarath Fonseka says he expects a jail sentence from a military court trying him on charges of corruption.
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Authorities stop an American Airlines flight before takeoff at San Francisco International Airport after there was a threat to the plane.
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The British government has announced it will double the amount of aid it is giving to flood-hit Pakistan to £60m.
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