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CanadaCanada's minority government loses a bid to end a rifle and shotgun registry which police say helps to trace guns used in crimes.
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IsraelIsrael's military broke international law and showed "unacceptable" brutality in a raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a UN human rights team says.
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United StatesAs Teresa Lewis is set to become the first woman to be executed in the US for five years, Briton Linda Carty continues to await the same fate for killing a young mother in Texas.
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ItalyPolice in Italy have seized a shipment of high explosive, which they say was probably being smuggled on behalf of a terrorist group.
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United StatesA Florida court overturns the state's ban on gay adoption, the only one of its kind in the US, and the state's governor says he will no longer enforce it.
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GuineaThe election commission in Guinea proposes 10 October as the revised date for the presidential election run-off.
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United StatesBentley, the luxury car maker, is recalling almost 600 vehicles in the United States because of a fault with the iconic 'Flying B' bonnet ornament.
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CambodiaCambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy is sentenced to 10 years in jail in his absence, after being found guilty of altering public documents and disinformation.
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United StatesWhy is a woman being executed in the US such big news?
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FranceFrench trade unions have launched their second 24-hour strike in a month to try to halt President Sarkozy's attempt to increase the official retirement age from 60 to 62.
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama has warned the world will miss ambitious anti-poverty goals if it does not change its approach to aid and development.
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PeruA fifth child dies in the remote Amazon region of Peru, in an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats, say health officials.
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IndiaThe full extent of the poor conditions at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village in India has been exposed in photographs seen by BBC Sport.
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United StatesJennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are to be the new judges on American Idol after Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres left the show, it is announced.
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North KoreaNorth Korea promotes three senior diplomats in a reshuffle days before its biggest political meeting in decades.
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IraqIt may not be the first place you think of when planning a holiday, but Iraq is trying to lure back the tourists.
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IraqCan eco-tourism flourish in northern Iraq?
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NigeriaNigeria's former corruption fighter Nuhu Ribadu tells the BBC no-one will be safe from prosecution if he is elected president next year.
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United StatesDavid Beckham is taking legal action against a US magazine that published allegations about his private life, his representatives announce.
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BrazilThe French embassy in Bolivia expresses concern for a French couple who went missing more than three weeks ago in a Bolivian village on the border with Brazil.
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ChinaMEPs have alleged that many goods imported into the EU from China may have been made in forced labour camps.
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ChinaAt least 54 people are now known to have died and 42 are missing after Typhoon Fanapi struck southern China, state media report.
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United StatesDVD and games rental company Blockbuster files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US business in a New York court.
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Niger, FranceFrance wants to contact the al-Qaeda group which abducted five of its citizens in Niger, its defence minister says.
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IranOne of the most sophisticated pieces of malware detected probably targeted "high value" infrastructure in Iran, experts tell the BBC.
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New ZealandAn animal cruelty group says it plans to talk to a school in New Zealand that held a possum-tossing contest.
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PhilippinesResidents of a slum in Manila have clashed with police and demolition workers as their homes, deemed illegal, were torn down.
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IndiaHuman pyramids that climb 50 feet into the air are the centre piece of one of India's most spectacular religious festivals, Dahi Handi.
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IndiaSeven elephants are killed and one injured after being hit by a goods train in India as they attempted to rescue two young ones from the track.
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ChinaAn anti-terrorism drill has been held in China to show how the armed forces could deal with a hostage taking situation.
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RussiaRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rejects talk of an impending battle for control of the Arctic's mineral resources.
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IrelandThe Irish Republic's economy shrank by 1.2% in the second quarter of this year, surprising analysts who had expected it to grow.
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United KingdomThe widow of an exiled Pakistani politician murdered outside his north London home makes an appeal for information to help find his killers.
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AustraliaMonty Panesar and Chris Tremlett win much-coveted places in the Ashes squad to tour Australia this winter.
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IranIran says it is ready to resume talks on its nuclear programme if they are "fair", as major powers call for constructive dialogue.
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India, New ZealandNew Zealand is the latest country to delay its arrival for the Commonwealth Games in India, where PM Manmohan Singh has called a crisis meeting.
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SomaliaSomali journalists refuse to obey the editorial orders of an Islamist group which seized their radio station, amid heavy fighting in the capital, Mogadishu.
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GermanyPolice in Lower Saxony seize documents from the centre-right CDU party as part of an inquiry into election funding.
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United StatesSales of previously-owned homes in the US rose 7.6% in August, but activity in the housing market remains at low levels.
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United StatesUS House Republicans vow to cut taxes and government spending and repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law if the party wins power.
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BurmaBurmese soldiers in many areas are refusing to carry out routine tasks to protest against short rations and no access to part of their pay.
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FranceFrench unions report turnout of nearly three million people at rallies against pension reform but police figures are much lower.
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BurundiAt least six people die after a cassiterite mine collapsed in Burundi, 120km (75 miles) north of the capital.
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PakistanThe England cricket team demands a "full and unreserved apology" from Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt over match-fixing allegations.
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Russia, FranceRussia launches a rail service from Moscow to Nice, in an echo of the days when its nobility holidayed on the French Riviera.
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ColombiaOne of the top leaders of Colombia's Farc rebels, best known as Mono Jojoy, has been killed in combat, military sources say.
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United KingdomPublic sector union Unison has won the right to seek a judicial review on the consultation over plans for changes to the NHS in England, it says.
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United States, ChinaChinese premier Wen Jiabao says the yuan's exchange rate has no relation to the US trade deficit and should not be politicised.
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United StatesThe largest airlift of horses ever undertaken has begun ahead of this weekend's World Equestrian Games in the United States
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IndiaIndian ministers hold urgent talks over Delhi's beleaguered Commonwealth Games, a day before the first overseas competitors arrive.
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ParaguayDNA tests show that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is not the father of a child whose mother is suing him in a paternity case.
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Pakistan, United StatesAafia Siddiqui, the female Pakistani scientist convicted of attempting to kill US military personnel, is sentenced to 86 years in prison.
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Iran, United Kingdom, United StatesUS and EU delegates have walked out of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN General Assembly address. The Iranian president's remarks about a US-backed conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks triggered the protest.
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United StatesThe US broadcasting regulator announces it will make unused television airwaves available for new "super wi-fi" technology.
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Israel, United StatesUS President Barack Obama urges world leaders at the UN General Assembly to support Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations currently under way.
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SpainPicture restorers reveal a previously unknown painting by 16th Century master Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Prado museum says.
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NicaraguaA Nicaraguan diplomat is found dead with knife wounds to his neck in his New York City apartment.
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ItalyThe UN FAO is to stage an emergency meeting in Rome on Friday over fears of a looming food crisis.
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SwitzerlandSwiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz was discussing a parliamentary bill about meat imports when he was overcome by the need to laugh, apparently at the language he was using.
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