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Niger is being hit by a "second emergency" as recent floods compound an existing food crisis, UK aid agency Oxfam warns.
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South African President Jacob Zuma flies into China for a trade-boosting trip to his country's largest trading partner.
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped nine months ago by al-Qaeda's North African offshoot arrive home after being freed.
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Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in an IRA bombing in 1972.
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A humpback whale has put on a spectacular show in what is believed to be a way of attracting female attention
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Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who arrived in Canada aboard a cargo ship 11 days ago are kept in jail.
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Officials from Pakistan hold talks with the International Monetary Fund to discuss its $11bn loan package in the wake of the devastating floods.
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Hong Kong warns against travel to the Philippines and China demands a full investigation after eight tourists were shot and killed in a bus hijack.
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British driver Lewis Hamilton is fined A$500 (£288) for performing car stunts for fans outside Melbourne's motor racing circuit.
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Food crisis as Niger battles floods
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Carmen Roberts learns how to make fire and poisonous darts in one of the world's oldest rainforests, the Taman Negara National Park in Malaysia.
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Fulham sign Benfica's Algerian international defender Rafik Halliche for an undisclosed fee.
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The US military says the number of its troops in Iraq is already below the 31 August target of 50,000, when US combat operations are due to end.
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Emergency teams are working frantically to protect a city in southern Pakistan from flood waters which have already devastated neighbouring areas.
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Israeli police recommend that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand trial on corruption charges over his alleged role in the Holyland real estate scandal.
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India refuses permission for the mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa amid concerns for local tribes.
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Ecuador's oldest mountaineer aims to pass on his love of nature
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The Chilean miners who've been discovered alive after 18 days trapped below ground have been singing their national anthem in delight at being discovered.
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The Philippines is to send a top delegation to Hong Kong amid increasing public anger there over the death of eight citizens in a bus hijack in Manila.
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Six steps to survival for trapped miners in Chile
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The execution of four men in Equatorial Guinea for an attempted presidential assassination is condemned by rights activists.
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Pakistan drop former captain Shoaib Malik for September's Twenty20 and one-day internationals against England.
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Teenagers score another record year for GCSEs with almost seven out of 10 entries being awarded a C grade or above.
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The Philippine government is to send a high-level delegation to Hong Kong amid increasing public anger there over the deaths of eight citizens in the hijacking of a tourist bus in Manila.
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A third baby dies at a university hospital in Germany, after being fed by a drip infected with bacteria.
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Gas has been discovered off the coast of Greenland after the first drilling for a decade, a sign of a possible oil discovery.
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Hundreds of specially trained dogs have been recruited to rescue swimmers who get into trouble on Italian beaches.
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The authorities in Israel are introducing a new scheme to make Arabic-language classes compulsory in state schools.
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Gibson Sibanda, co-founder of Zimbabwe's former opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, dies aged 66.
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The head of an international police mission due to deploy in violence-hit southern Kyrgyzstan holds talks in Bishkek, amid mounting opposition to the move.
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Rescue workers in Chile send supplies to 33 miners trapped underground for 17 days and facing weeks to be freed.
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Ten things the Manila bus siege police got wrong
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The former chief minister of the north-east Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is arrested on corruption charges.
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Private defence company Blackwater, now known as XE Services, is fined $42m for violating US export and arms traffic laws.
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The police, the Catholic Church and the government conspired to cover up a priest's suspected role in one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles, an investigation has found.
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Kenyan authorities have seized nearly two tonnes of ivory and five rhinoceros horns at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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Kosovan government has been trying to build a secular state since independence from Serbia in 2008 and in this cause they have attempted to ban the Islamic headscarf in public schools.
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The mayor of a Japanese seaside village made famous in an Oscar-winning documentary for its dolphin hunt has said he is determined to continue the ancient local tradition.
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The passengers of a small plane that ditched into the sea off the Bahamas waited for rescue by sitting on top of the sinking plane.
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Officials in the Indian city of Bangalore investigate dozens of unexplained deaths at a government-run camp for beggars.
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Pakistan is in danger from epidemic diseases, PM Yousuf Raza Gilani warns, as 17 million people struggle to cope with flood devastation.
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Moldovan police have seized 1.8kg of uranium-238 in the capital, Chisinau, interior ministry officials say.
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A Polish man living in Germany spends five years with a bullet in his head after forgetting he was shot because he was drunk.
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A cave-in at a mine in Venezuela has killed seven miners and left a number of others trapped, emergency workers say.
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Islamist gunmen have stormed a hotel close to Somalia's presidential palace and killed at least 32 people, including six MPs.
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At least 42 people have been killed after a passenger plane crashes in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, state media report.
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Pop star Bono meets Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ahead of U2's first Russia gig.
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Islamist gunmen storm a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace and kill at least 32 people, including six MPs in a suicide attack.
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At least 42 people have been killed after a passenger plane crash-landed in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, state media report.
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Sales of existing homes in the US plunged 27% in July to their lowest level in more than 10 years, figures suggest.
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A tourist plane crashes into hills outside Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, killing all 14 people on board.
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South Sudan's government prepares to repatriate some 1.5 million people from the north and Egypt ahead of the 2011 referendum on independence.
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Niger has been hit by a double disaster as recent floods compound an existing food crisis, a UK aid agency warned.
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Philippine police admit incompetence in their handling of Monday's bus hijacking in which eight Hong Kong tourists were shot dead.
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Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is to have an operation on a groin injury next week that will keep him out of England's Euro 2012 qualifiers in September.
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Claims that rebel fighters raped more that 150 women and baby boys in DR Congo are to be investigated, the UN says.
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Who's promoting Hosni Mubarak's son as Egypt's next leader?
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A senior US general warns that President Barack Obama's deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban.
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Swiss death penalty campaigners can begin collecting signatures to force a referendum on its return, the government says.
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Two men are killed in clashes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, between supporters of the Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and a rival Sunni faction.
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The US Justice Department will appeal after a US district court ruled against Obama's stem cell research plans.
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