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United StatesA woman from the US state of Montana has fought off a 200lb (90kg) black bear with a courgette from her garden.
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United KingdomA bomb disposal expert who neutralised 42 bombs in 72 hours is among 131 UK service personnel to be honoured for gallantry.
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CanadaA black bear cub receives a 12-hour free ride to Winnipeg, Canada, from the town of Foxwarren, after getting stuck on the bottom of a train car.
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KenyaEurope's fashion for beads boosts Kenyan women
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United StatesA woman who conspired to murder her husband and stepson is executed in the US, the first female to be put to death there for five years.
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Japan, 
ChinaChina is investigating four Japanese who allegedly entered and filmed a Chinese military area, Chinese state media report.
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SomaliaThe African Union appeals for funds to increase its force in Somalia amid a crisis summit in New York.
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United StatesUS singer Eddie Fisher, who sold millions of records in the 50s and was married to Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, dies at 82.
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SudanIn just over three months the southern Sudanese will vote on splitting away from Sudan, a consequence of a peace deal that ended a long north-south civil war.
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United KingdomOne of Northern Ireland's smallest World War II heroes is to be honoured on Friday.
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FranceLocal authorities on the outskirts of Paris have built temporary homes for some of the Roma community, in an attempt to integrate them into French society.
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ChileThe 33 miners trapped in a collapsed copper mine in Chile are spending their 50th day below ground.
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Iran, United StatesThe US and other Western delegations at the UN walk out in protest as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questions events of 9/11.
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RussiaResearch physicist Bair Shaibonov talks about his work on the neutrino telescope at the bottom of Russia's Lake Baikal.
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JapanJapan's central bank is thought to have intervened for the second time in a week to combat the rising yen.
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ChileChile mine saga brings surge of patriotism
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BotswanaBrazilian state oil company Petrobras raises $70bn in the world's largest public share offering in order to fund exploration plans.
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CanadaA small Muslim community in Canada has taken delivery of a new pre-built mosque that has been transported more than 2,000 miles by land and water.
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United StatesUS actress Portia de Rossi has officially taken the last name of wife Ellen Degeneres.
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ArubaIndia should not have been allowed to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games says Australian Olympic committee president John Coates.
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United KingdomA revaluation of council tax bands in England, which could have seen some bills rise by hundreds of pounds, will not happen during the current Parliament, the government pledges.
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North KoreaKorean firm KNOC says it has taken control of 64% of Dana Petroleum, despite opposition to its bid from Dana's management.
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ItalyGoogle's Street View programme, which takes photographs of public roads and puts them online as a navigation tool, has an ambitious new project - to capture the archaeological sites of Rome.
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GermanyShares in German drugs group Merck fall 8% after European authorities refuse approval for a new multiple sclerosis treatment.
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RussiaThree crew return to the International Space Station after the Russian spacecraft due to take them home fails to undock.
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LiberiaFormer Liberian warlord Prince Johnson defends his decision to run in presidential elections, saying military leaders have become leaders in other countries.
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United KingdomTourists who visited the theatre last year helped boost the UK's economy by £2.8 billion, Visit Britain says.
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RussiaContestants from around the world have been taking part in the Karaoke World Championship, which is being held in Moscow.
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SingaporeFriday's second practice session nears its conclusion ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix.
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PeruThieves attempt to blackmail a Peruvian mayor into not standing for re-election by claiming to have stolen his father's skull.
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South AfricaWorld football governing body Fifa hails the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as a great success.
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Sri LankaSri Lanka's president calls for a rethink on international rules governing the conduct of war, in an address to the UN.
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SingaporeMark Webber is fastest in first practice for the Singapore Grand Prix after a session in drying conditions.
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RussiaAn oil refinery catches fire near the city of Ufa in the Urals but Russian officials deny reports of an explosion.
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Sri LankaA Sri Lankan court releases four suspects arrested on charges of conspiring with former army chief Sarath Fonseka to overthrow the government.
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BurmaBurma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is on a voters' list for the first general election in 20 years, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.
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United StatesPolice in the US state of Ohio rescued a man from a rubbish truck just as it was about to crush him.
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Israel, 
Gaza StripDoctors in the Gaza Strip say a fisherman has been shot and killed by the Israeli navy off the northern coast of the territory.
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Malaysia, SingaporeA man suspected of masterminding a plot to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore airport is back in custody there after being returned by Malaysia.
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Kenya, Somalia, 
SpainSeven Somali pirates are sentenced to five years each in prison by a court in Kenya for attacking a Spanish ship in 2009.
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United StatesThe number of new homes sold in the US in August remains at a near-record low as unemployment continues to bite.
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SingaporeSebastian Vettel confirms Red Bull is the team to beat in this Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix after topping the time sheets during second practice.
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IsraelThe members of the UN's nuclear agency narrowly reject an Arab-backed resolution calling on Israel to join a global treaty limiting nuclear arms.
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DenmarkAbba stars Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus criticise far-right Danish People's Party for using Mamma Mia at their political events.
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South AfricaSouth Africa's Jacob Zuma fends off his ANC critics
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Pakistan, United StatesPakistanis protest after a US court jails Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui for 86 years for attempting to kill US agents in Afghanistan in 2009.
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New ZealandA number of whales that became stranded on a beach in New Zealand have been rescued by teams that used trucks to move them to calmer waters.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoA senior UN official says the systematic rapes of some 300 people over four days in DR Congo "defy belief", as a preliminary UN report is released.
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BelgiumA Belgian court tries a woman for murdering her love rival by sabotaging her parachute on a sky dive four years ago.
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Dominican Republic, 
DominicaFive teenagers in the Dominican Republic have been sentenced to three to five years in prison for murdering seven taxi drivers and seriously injuring two others
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ColombiaWhy rebel's death may not be end of Colombia's Farc
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Kenya, 
UgandaKenyan authorities leak information linking recently arrested suspects to the Uganda bomb attack, amid criticism over renditions.
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Japan, ChinaJapan frees a Chinese fishing boat captain whose arrest in disputed waters two weeks ago sparked the worst row with Beijing in years.
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United StatesThree robbers abduct a bank worker, fix a suspected bomb to his chest and use him to help rob a bank near the US city of Miami.
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United KingdomEngland warn "more and swift action is required" at the Commonwealth Games' village before a second wave of their team arrive in Delhi on Sunday.
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United StatesSatirist Stephen Colbert makes a controversial appearance before a US congressional committee discussing immigrant farm workers.
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CubaCuban officials publish plans to widen the communist country's private sector less than two weeks after they said they would lay off 1m state employees.
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Pakistan, United KingdomThe England and Wales Cricket Board has told BBC Sport that batsman Jonathan Trott's scuffle with Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz is a "closed matter".
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IndiaPolice in India are investigating claims that a Dalit woman has been ordered to pay compensation to the high-caste owners of a dog she fed.
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IndiaAustralia's Olympic Committee president says the Commonwealth Games should not have been awarded to Delhi, as another athlete pulls out.
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MexicoGunmen shoot dead the mayor of a town in northern Mexico, the fourth to be killed over the past month.
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Pakistan, United KingdomPolice in Pakistan are searching for a British man who may have been kidnapped for ransom in the country's southern Sindh province.
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NigeriaTwo million Nigerians have been displaced after dam floodgates were opened, an official says.
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ItalyRecent sharp rises in food prices do not point to a repeat of the food price spike in 2007-8, a UN conference is told.
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United KingdomHSBC's chief executive is to be replaced by the current head of the group's investment bank, it is confirmed.
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United States, ChinaA US Congress committee passes a bill that would place retaliatory trade sanctions on China, leading to a vote next week.
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United StatesWhat was satirist Stephen Colbert doing in the US House?
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VenezuelaVenezuela opposition attempts to recapture parliament
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IrelandThe threat level to Britain from Irish-related terrorism is raised from moderate to substantial, as it is published for the first time.
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CanadaA Canadian student inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's sketches says he has made the first sustained flight in a human-powered, wing-flapping aircraft.
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GeorgiaGeorgian leader sees tourism potential in beauty spot
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