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PakistanAt least 16 people have been killed and scores injured in a bombing near police headquarters in the north-western Pakistani town of Kohat.
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MalaysiaMalaysia opens 'baby hatch' to save unwanted newborns
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SomaliaTrying to survive as fighting in Mogadishu spikes
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Democratic Republic of the CongoA senior UN official says its peacekeepers failed the victims of mass rape in DR Congo, with the numbers affected double the previous estimate.
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New ZealandA powerful aftershock near the New Zealand city of Christchurch causes further damage and sends residents running into the streets, reports say.
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ChileThe miners trapped underground in Chile were able to watch a football match after rescue workers provided a mini TV screen.
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United StatesRafael Nadal beats Feliciano Lopez in straight sets to reach the US Open quarter-finals.
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JapanThe Japanese finance minister says there could be market intervention as the yen hits a new 15-year high.
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Japan, 
ChinaA diplomatic row between China and Japan intensifies after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.
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HondurasMen armed with automatic weapons burst into a shoe factory in northern Honduras, killing 18 people in a suspected gang attack.
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MexicoThe authorities in Mexico say they believe they have found the bodies of two officials investigating the killing of 72 foreign migrants last month.
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MexicoAt least 400,000 people have been affected by flooding in Mexico following torrential rains.
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United StatesSir Paul McCartney is to be presented with a Kennedy Center honour at the White House in Washington in December.
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New Zealand, 
AustraliaAustralia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, United StatesSix people have died in a US missile strike targeting militants in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border, security officials say.
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PhilippinesThe first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.
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North KoreaDana Petroleum tells shareholders independent valuers found Korean oil's bid is too low and should be rejected.
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Ireland, 
United KingdomHorror movie The Last Exorcism debuts at the top of the UK and Ireland box office, taking £1.1m in its opening weekend.
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United StatesThe US church threatening to burn Korans on 9/11
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AustriaNatascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped and held in a cellar for more than eight years as a child, launches her autobiography in Vienna.
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IndiaAn Indian court tells Vodafone it has to pay $2.6bn in tax for its takeover of Hutchison Telecom's Indian phone assets.
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United KingdomA fungus that 'eats' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history.
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United StatesA small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
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ChinaAt least 30 workers are rescued and at least two are missing after a storm causes an oil rig off China's north-east coast to list dangerously.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomThe UK's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office says.
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MexicoHundreds of thousands of people in eastern and southern Mexico see floodwaters inundate their homes.
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PakistanAngelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.
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ChinaChinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to team up with Speed director Jan de Bont to make an English-language version of the Chinese legend Mulan.
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NigeriaAbout 700 prisoners escape after members of an Islamist sect storm a jail in northern Nigeria, where many of its followers were held.
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ChinaVodafone pockets $6.5bn in cash following the sale of its 3.2% stake in China's biggest wireless operator, China Mobile.
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MexicoA scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired
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India, 
GermanyA man appears in court in Mumbai in connection with a bomb blast at a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune six months ago.
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CanadaCanada now has interest rates of 1%, after raising its key lending benchmark for the third time this year.
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IrelandThe Irish government says it will break up the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank as part of the failed lender's resolution.
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RussiaA Russian passenger plane makes a safe landing in the Siberian taiga after a power failure at more than 10,000 metres.
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GermanyGerman gambling restrictions breach European Union law, the EU's highest court rules
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RwandaThe UN's secretary general urges Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide.
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United States, MexicoA BP report says "a series of failures" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Sri LankaSri Lankan MPs overwhelmingly approve proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms.
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NigeriaNigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed new military and police chiefs ahead of planned January presidential election.
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PhilippinesA powerful family accused of being behind the worst political massacre in the Philippines plotted the killings over dinner, a court has heard.
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SwedenPremises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown
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United StatesUnited States Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin refuses to rule out pairing world numbers one and two Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at Celtic Manor.
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FranceDavid Cameron's father Ian dies in hospital in France shortly after the Prime Minister joined other members of his family at his bedside.
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West BankWest Bank crackdown pushes Hamas militia deeper underground
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United StatesMore semi-final places at the US Open are up for grabs with Vera Zvonareva, Novak Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Robin Soderling and Roger Federer all in action.
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United KingdomJohn Higgins is cleared of all match-fixing allegations but admits bringing snooker into disrepute, resulting in a £75,000 fine and a ban until November.
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FranceFerrari have avoided further punishment for using banned team orders, a Formula 1 disciplinary hearing in Paris has ruled.
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SenegalSeven Koranic teachers in Senegal are given suspended jail sentences for forcing their students to beg.
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United StatesA small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
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Germany, United StatesGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has described as "abhorrent" a US pastor's plan to burn the Koran.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoUN peacekeepers "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said.
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GreeceThe debt-laden Greek economy shrank by a surprise 1.8% in the second quarter as households slashed spending.
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Georgia, United StatesResidents of a small street called Lustful Court in the US state of Georgia are told to raise a petition if they want a less provocative street name.
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NigeriaAt least 700 prisoners have escaped during an attack on a jail in northern Nigeria, including members of a militant Islamist sect.
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South AfricaSouth African artist Emile Jansen has embraced the challenge of reaching out to the youth with the help of hip hop.
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United Kingdom, United StatesFormer newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.
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MexicoContractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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