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Romania's former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife are reburied - nearly five months after their bodies were exhumed to confirm their identity.
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Angelique Kidjo has been labeled by Time Magazine as "Africa's premier diva". Her signature sound has won her worldwide acclaim.
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The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident is not an attempt to enforce Western values on China, organisers say.
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Attempts to repeal a ban on openly gay men and women serving in the US military receive a serious setback on Thursday as a key Senate vote fails.
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Mexican police battle drug traffickers, who have been blockading roads into the western city of Morelia with burning vehicles.
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Laos hopes hydropower will make it a regional battery
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A car containing Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall is attacked by protesters amid violence after MPs voted to raise tuition fees.
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva calls the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange an attack on freedom of expression
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African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely as whites to use the website Twitter, a survey suggests.
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Laos's new hydropower dam cost more than $1.2bn to build and relocated thousands of people but could provide new prosperity.
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North Korea may be helping Burma to build secret missile and nuclear sites in remote locations, according to US cables released by Wikileaks.
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Doonesbury's creator on 40 years of American life
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California authorities have set fire to a house filled with home-made explosives, saying the controlled blaze was the safest method of dealing with the bomb-making equipment.
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A US jury convicts three police officers and acquits two others over the killing of a man after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005.
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The latest releases by WikiLeaks add to reports suggesting Burma could be building a nuclear facility with North Korean help.
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Haiti says it will review the disputed result of its presidential election, after angry demonstrations by supporters of a losing candidate.
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Countries at the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, launch a diplomatic assault on Japan in an effort to soften its resistance to the Kyoto Protocol.
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Police in Delhi announce new safety measures to protect women who work at night, following the gang rape of a call centre worker two weeks ago.
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Iceland agrees to repay the UK and the Netherlands for money their citizens lost in the collapsed Icesave savings bank.
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The Philippine president orders criminal charges against 43 health workers, alleged by the military to be communist rebels, to be dropped.
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England drop a string of catches as Victoria hit 216-2 in the tour match before declaring, and Alastair Cook then falls cheaply.
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Egypt's 'most fraudulent poll will cost Mubarak dear'
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What lies behind the success of Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu'?
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Michael Beer is a surprise selection and Mitchell Johnson, Phillip Hughes, Steve Smith and Ben Hilfenhaus all earn recalls as Australia name a much-changed squad for the third Ashes Test.
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Questions are raised about police handling of tuition fee protests after a car with the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall inside was attacked.
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Thousands of documents, photographs and audio-visual recordings relating to the 1994 genocide go on display in Rwanda.
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Of about 50 countries invited to the Nobel ceremony, almost a third are staying away, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, many as a result of Chinese pressure.
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Serbia reverses its decision to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Oslo.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expresses concern over the frisking of India's ambassador Meera Shankar by an airport security agent.
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Germany and France inaugurate a new bridge at Strasbourg as part of an ambitious high-speed rail network to span the EU.
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A commission in the Netherlands looking into sexual and physical abuse in the Catholic Church says almost 2,000 people have complained in the last year, 100 times more than the previous average number.
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UK petrol prices have hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol, says Experian Catalist.
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World steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez is suspended from her position as vice president of the Spanish Athletics Federation after being implicated in a doping investigation.
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A group of 26 former EU leaders urges Brussels to impose sanctions on Israel for continuing to build settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.
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Exploring Wikileaks' underground nerve centre in Sweden
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A Paris auctioneer postpones a sale of paintings by Picasso that he gave to his chauffeur after a further cache of the artist's works was revealed.
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China reports much stronger than expected export growth in November, boosting its trade surplus and adding to inflation fears.
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An embattled Somali radio station, Radio Shabelle, receives an international press freedom award at a ceremony in Paris.
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A man who let a woman push ahead of him in a lottery queue in the Philippines wins a $17m accumulator prize, and feels sorry for the queue jumper.
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The man shaking up India's environment ministry
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Barcelona end their history of refusing commercial shirt sponsorship as they sign a record £125m deal with the Qatar Foundation.
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Pakistani newspapers acknowledge they were hoaxed after publishing reports based on bogus Wikileaks cables containing anti-Indian propaganda.
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The chairman of the Nobel prize committee has paid tribute to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Peace Prize.
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev is considering running for a second term in office, his economic adviser hints.
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A suicide bomber rams an explosives-laden vehicle into a hospital, killing 11 people in north-west Pakistan, say police.
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French and German leaders passionately defend the single currency at talks ahead of an EU summit on the euro crisis fund.
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The level of terrorist activity in Northern Ireland is being played down by the police and government, the Police Federation claims.
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US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer dismisses as "preposterous" reports that it hired investigators to pressure Nigeria's attorney general during a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
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The BBC has received the strongest indication yet that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is considering running for a second presidential term.
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David Cameron says lessons need to be learned from a security lapse which allowed student protesters to attack the Prince of Wales' car.
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A top executive at European planemaker Airbus is placed under formal investigation for insider trading by French authorities, reports suggest.
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The chairman of the Nobel prize committee calls for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 peace prize.
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Craig Brown is confirmed as the new manager of Aberdeen alongside assistant Archie Knox, taking over from Mark McGhee who was sacked last week.
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China describes the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as a "political farce".
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A row with India over the transit of generic drugs through the EU has been resolved, negotiators tell Reuters news agency.
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The US trade deficit narrowed sharply in November to a much lower than expected $38.7bn, thanks to a fall in imports.
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Indonesian police say they have arrested one of the country's most wanted men, accused of recruiting and helping to train Islamic militants.
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Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who is wanted in connection with a corruption investigation, has been arrested in Austria, Croatian police say.
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A Canadian man accused of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent pledges to challenge a court ruling that could see him deported to his native Algeria.
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A high-ranking Canadian pilot convicted of two murders and violent sexual assaults is formally ejected from the Canadian military.
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Mexican security forces kill a notorious drugs baron during heavy fighting in the western state of Michoacan.
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Brian David Mitchell is found guilty of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, then 14, from her Utah home in 2002 and transporting her for sex.
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The Metropolitan Police launches a "major criminal investigation" into disorder in London in recent weeks during protests over tuition fees.
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A nun from New York appears in court to deny charges that she stole $850,000 from the college where she worked.
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Glasgow struggle to contain French side Toulouse at Firhill in their Heineken Cup Pool 6 match.
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The husband of a woman murdered on honeymoon in South Africais back home in Bristol after being granted £250,000 bail by the High Court.
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Former US President Bill Clinton has urged Democrats to support the deal President Obama negotiated with Republicans on tax cuts at a White House press conference.
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The latest negotiating text at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, appears to hint at a possible compromise to break a stalemate.
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Iran's state-run Press TV has said it has filmed a new confession with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
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