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Cui Jian still wows Chinese fans after 25 years on top
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Colombian police investigate the killings of three youths whose names had appeared on hitlists published on a social networking site.
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Canada will set up a research station at Cambridge Bay in the Arctic, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says.
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Already grappling with one of the highest crime rates in the world, South Africa has a new set of intruders to deal with: baboons.
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The American general in charge of US marines has said President Obama's plan to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan next July is encouraging Taliban insurgents.
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Former US presidential candidate John McCain is projected to win the Republican senate nomination in Arizona after a closely-watched primary race.
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The flight recorder of the plane that crashed in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, killing 42 people, is found.
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Pakistan's national cricketers donate $54,000 of bonuses to help the floods relief effort in the devastated country.
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The planned extradition to the United States of a suspected arms dealer, Viktor Bout, has been hit by delays, Thai officials say.
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NBA star Luol Deng made his return to his home country of Sudan, and found it a humbling and emotional experience.
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Is 'Ground Zero mosque' debate stirring US intolerance?
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The flight recorder from a plane that crashed in northwest China has been found, the state news agency Xinhua has said.
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There were almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections in 2009, with young people most likely to be affected, figures show
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French engineers are set to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below.
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Manchester City forward Robinho turns down a move to Fenerbahce because he would prefer to join a club in Italy or Spain.
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Manchester City forward Robinho turns down a move to Fenerbahce because he would prefer to join a club in Italy or Spain.
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Basketball millionaire retraces refugee roots in Kenya camps
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Continuing heavy monsoon rains are causing major flooding across northern India.
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The Irish Republic has its credit rating cut, reflecting fears that the rising cost of propping up banks will further weaken its finances.
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Dutch brewing company Heineken has reported a rise in profits for the last six months, despite falling beer sales.
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Mexican troops discover 72 bodies on a northern ranch following a shoot-out with suspected drug cartel gunmen.
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Recent floods have brought a fresh round of problems for Niger, a country already struggling to grown crops because of severe drought.
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Lawyers for Michael Douglas and his ex-wife clash in court over her demand for half of his earnings from the new Wall Street film.
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Pakistan's government is "seriously concerned" about potential epidemics of water-borne diseases like cholera and diarrhoea.
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A ruling by Haiti's electoral council barring hip-hop star Wyclef Jean from standing in presidential elections cannot be appealed, council lawyer says.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter has arrived in North Korea in an apparent bid to negotiate the release of a US man jailed there.
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Manxman Mark Cavendish is chosen as one of HTC-Columbia's nine riders for the Vuleta a Espana.
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Manxman Mark Cavendish is chosen as one of HTC-Columbia's nine riders for the Vuleta a Espana.
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The US soldiers struggling to stop killing after Iraq
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At least eight children are killed and four injured in a collision between a school bus and a train in South Africa, local reports say.
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Swiss campaigners who won clearance to seek a referendum on reintroducing the death penalty withdraw their application only a day later.
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Chile's President Sebastian Pinera tells the 33 miners trapped hundreds of metres underground that every effort is being made to free them.
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German business confidence shows an unexpected rise in August to its highest level since June 2007.
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A 'fire tornado' has been caught on camera in the Brazilian municipality of Aracatuba, caused by strong, dry winds that fanned wildfires.
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An Afghan police recruit shoots dead two Spanish police officers and their interpreter in north-western Afghanistan, officials say.
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Dozens of people are killed in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq, as a deadline approaches for the formal end of US combat operations.
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India's lower house of parliament approves a controversial law that opens its nuclear power market to private investment.
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Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks publishes a CIA memo examining the implications of the US being perceived as an "exporter of terrorism".
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Former US President Jimmy Carter is visiting North Korea in an effort to negotiate the release of a US man jailed there, Aijalon Mahli Gomes.
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Mexican officials investigating the death of 72 people found murdered in the north of the country say they were migrants trying to reach the US.
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The 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground have been told their rescue could take several months, officials say.
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A senior UN official says peacekeepers could not have stopped a mass rape in DR Congo because they were not told it was happening.
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