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Irish police release a man held over an explosives find, after Slovak authorities admit planting them in his luggage.
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US security agencies had sufficient intelligence about a plot to blow up a plane but failed to act, President Obama says.
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A BBC investigation casts doubt on key evidence linking Libyan bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi to the 1988 Lockerbie attack.
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Australia plays down a travel advisory issued by India warning of a risk of violence against Indian students in Melbourne.
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A US software company lawsuit accuses China of stealing its code for a program used to block certain internet sites.
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A top US intelligence official promises action after sharp criticism from President Obama over the failed plane bomb plot.
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The UK and France have reopened their embassies in Yemen which closed in response to a possible al-Qaeda threat.
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Work is set to resume at the world's second biggest copper mine in Chile after workers voted to end a strike over pay.
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China says the time is not right for more UN sanctions against Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium.
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Nathan Hauritz takes five wickets as Australia dismiss Pakistan for 139 to seal a stunning victory in the second Test against Pakistan.
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Kenyans who fight for - and against - Somali Islamists
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England lose both openers in quick succession chasing an improbable 466 to beat South Africa in the third Test on day four.
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The mathematical constant pi is calculated to a record 2.7 trillion digits using a desktop computer, a French researcher claims.
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Yemeni forces have arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who were wounded in a raid on Monday, reports say.
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Yemeni forces have arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who were wounded in a raid on Monday, reports say.
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The only person officially recognised as having survived both atomic bombings in Japan dies, aged 93.
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Thousands of schools are closed and the transport network is disrupted as heavy snow hits much of the UK.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama says he does not want his experienced finance minister, Hirohisa Fujii, to resign.
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Nigeria asks the US to remove it from a list of countries whose citizens face tougher airport security checks.
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Pakistani police say that a bomb blast on a Shia procession last month was caused by an improvised explosive device.
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Anti-whaling activists accuse a Japanese whaling ship of a ramming attack on one of their boats in Antarctic waters.
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Farc rebels in Colombia say they were behind the kidnap and murder of a regional governor last month.
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Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore maintains his innocent of any wrongdoing after the overturning of his lifetime ban from Formula 1.
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An Iranian diplomat in Oslo resigns in protest at his government's crackdown on opposition supporters, Norwegian TV says.
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A year after China's tainted milk scandal, three dairy executives face trial for allegedly selling contaminated milk.
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An American tourist and her infant daughter have been trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya, officials say.
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Japan's PM Yukio Hatoyama is forced to replace his experienced finance minister, who has resigned over ill health.
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Turkmenistan has opened a second gas pipeline to Iran, further eroding Russia's historical domination of its energy sector.
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A close examination of Mona Lisa's eyes suggests she could have had too much cholesterol in her diet, according to one Italian doctor.
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England face a huge fight to save the third Test after ending the fourth day 132-3 needing 466 to beat South Africa.
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A suicide bomber in Russia's restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan kills six policemen and wounded 14, officials say.
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France's opposition Socialists come out against a law banning the burka - even though they oppose the garment.
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The US inclusion of Nigeria on a list of countries facing stiffer security checks threatens relations with Abuja, officials say.
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Palestinian Christian groups boycott celebrations of Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem, accusing their Church of selling land to Israel.
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Militants kill at least three Pakistani soldiers and an Indian policeman in separate attacks in disputed Kashmir.
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Two suspected US drone strikes kill at least 12 people in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan, Pakistani security officials say.
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A tribal king plunges South Africa into a constitutional row after he threatens to secede - and take 60% of the country with him.
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An Indian court grants bail to three footballers arrested in Mumbai for allegedly harassing an air stewardess.
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Argentina's central bank governor rejects a call from the country's president to resign in a dispute over debt.
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Iceland's parliament is to meet on Friday to plan a referendum on the controversial Icesave bill, scheduled for 20 February.
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The top UN official in Afghanistan says "negative trends" threaten to make the country's situation unmanageable.
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Why are some Democrats bowing out in US?
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An Egyptian soldier dies and eight Palestinians are injured in clashes at the Gaza border, after aid trucks are refused entry.
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UK PM Gordon Brown faces a major challenge from within his own party, only a few months before a general election.
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South Africa's AB de Villiers says an official complaint should have been made about alleged ball-tampering by England in the third Test in Cape Town.
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A US man accused of murdering a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum dies in a prison hospital, aged 89, officials say.
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The head of Guinea's junta will need time to recover after last month's assassination bid, the country's interim leader says.
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Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is being treated in hospital abroad, has recently spoken on the phone to key officials, a minister says.
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A US grand jury indicts Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on six counts over an alleged plot to bomb a plane on Christmas Day.
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