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Robert Kubica's F1 career is under threat after his right hand was partially severed in a high-speed rally crash in Italy on Sunday.
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Egypt's opposition - including the banned Muslim Brotherhood - says government offers on ending the political crisis do not go far enough.
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Youth unemployment affects the UK as well as north Africa
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One of Japan's biggest Sumo wrestling tournaments has been called off over allegations of match-fixing.
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Egypt's opposition groups have said government proposals on how to end the political crisis are not enough.
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The Formula 1 career of Polish driver Robert Kubica is under threat after a high-speed rally crash in Italy.
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From Bangalore Howard Johnson investigates the fate of Anglo-Indian cooking, a fusion style developed by Indian cooks during the period of British colonial rule.
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Chilean police end the occupation of a hotel by a group of indigenous Rapa Nui, who say the land on which it was built was stolen from their ancestors.
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Japan and Australia will resume talks in Tokyo on Monday, aimed at securing Japan's first free-trade agreement with a major agricultural exporter.
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The top diplomats of India and Pakistan meet in Bhutan's capital, Thimphu, in the first high-level meeting between the two countries since July.
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Cambodia and Thailand exchange fire across their border for a fourth day in a disputed area around an 11th-Century temple.
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The widow of a Pakistani man killed in Lahore by US official Raymond Davis dies a day after taking poison.
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Bushfires raging on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia have destroyed at least 59 homes.
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The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is due to begin his legal battle against extradition from the UK to Sweden.
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Indonesia's economy grew at its fastest rate in six years, boosted by a better-than-expected final three months of 2010, and driven by domestic demand.
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The Indonesian government condemns an attack against supporters of a minority Muslim sect that left three people dead and at least five seriously injured.
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Parents living in a Canadian resort town have created their own independent school on top of a ski mountain after the nearest school to their town closed.
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French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, facing calls to resign, admits she was wrong to fly on a Tunisian businessman's plane.
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The government should consider cutting its ties with the European Court of Human Rights, says a report by the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange.
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Merlin Diamond bewitched by Olympic magic on first UK visit
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Low-budget thriller The Roommate tops the North America box office over a weekend in which takings are hit by the Super Bowl.
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Online activist group Anonymous hacks an American security firm that claimed to know the identities of the group's leaders.
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Kuwait's interior minister steps down over torture allegations, amid rising political tensions that include calls for the first major Gulf street protests.
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President Obama insists the time for change in Egypt is now. Dr Kamal El-Helbawy of the Muslim Brotherhood explains how they could play a role in the country.
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Cambodia's prime minister calls for a UN buffer zone in a disputed area on its border with Thailand following further skirmishes.
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What do Iraqis make of the events in Cairo unfolding on their television screens?
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Four Roma children, aged between four and 11, die in a fire in their hut in a makeshift camp on the edge of the Italian capital Rome.
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Police in Europe are searching for six-year-old twin girls whose father committed suicide after taking the girls from their home in Switzerland a week ago
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Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders returns to court in Amsterdam to face trial for inciting hatred, before a new set of judges.
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Japanese vehicle manufacturer Suzuki reports a quadrupling of profits in the last quarter, driven by strong sales across Asia.
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After floods and cyclone, Australia now hit by bushfires
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Inside the school built on top of a Canadian ski mountain
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Christina Aguilera fluffed a line of the Star-Spangled banner as she belted out a version of the US national anthem to open Sunday's Super Bowl in Texas.
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The Netherlands recalls its Tehran ambassador and formally protests over the "sudden burial" of executed Dutch-Iranian Sahra Bahrami.
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Attempts to return Egypt to normality after two weeks of deadly anti-government protests have suffered a number of setbacks.
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Renault driver Robert Kubica regains consciousness as he begins his recovery after crashing during a rally in Italy.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board have backed the ICC anti-corruption tribunal which has banned three Pakistan cricketers for spot fixing.
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South Korea intercepts a North Korean fishing boat carrying 31 workers, a few kilometres south of the disputed sea border.
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Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed for a fourth consecutive day over a disputed border area between the two countries
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Japan's annual snow festival has begun in the northern city of Sapporo, featuring over 250 ice sculptures.
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The government is "destroying" the UK's volunteer army and undermining its "big society" vision with its cuts programme, says a voluntary sector expert.
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Japan and Russia exchange heated comments over the disputed southern Kuril islands in the Pacific Ocean, which both claim.
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Three suspected rhino poachers are killed by rangers in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
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Disgraced Nigerian sports administrator Amos Adamu says he is taking his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport because he is desperate to prove his innocence.
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German customs officers seize a record haul of performance-enhancing drugs designed for illegal doping in sport.
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A volcano in Russia has begun erupting, spurting ash up to four kilometres into the sky.
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Eight foreigners - from the US, France and Nigeria - are arrested on allegations of gold smuggling in eastern DR Congo, officials say.
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Former England coach Steve McClaren is sacked by German side Wolfsburg.
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An international police search is continuing for two Swiss six-year-old twin girls, missing since their father threw himself under a train on Friday.
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US internet firm AOL agrees to a buyout of the Huffington Post online paper, creating a media group with 270 million users.
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Attempts to return Egypt to normality after two weeks of deadly anti-government protests suffer a number of setbacks as protesters stand firm.
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There is a risk of "flagrant denial of justice" if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is tried for rape in Sweden, his lawyer tells a UK extradition hearing.
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Panorama reporter Jane Corbin encounters anger and suspicion of foreign journalists in Egypt when she goes to meet the family of one of the victim's of Cairo's uprising.
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The BBC's John Simpson has been to see the impact of the protests on traders near the Pyramids and the Sphinx and saw a very different side to the Egyptian unrest.
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US rail operator Amtrak announces plans for a $13.5bn rail project to connect New York City and New Jersey.
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Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal and American skiing Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn win the top honours at this year's Laureus Sport Awards.
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Bushfires on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia destroy more than 60 homes, with the area declared a natural disaster zone.
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There is a risk of "denial of justice" if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is tried for rape in Sweden, his lawyer has told a UK extradition hearing.
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Hungary agrees to make its controversial media law "more precise", after talks with European Union experts.
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Turkmenistan's president issues a decree ordering annual beauty contests for the ancient Akhal-Teke breed of horses.
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US President Barack Obama says he believes there was progress in Egypt, one day after Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman met with oppositions groups in the country.
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Colin Firth's run of success during awards season takes a knock as he beaten to a best acting prize at the London Evening Standard film awards.
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Southern Sudanese celebrate independence result
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US President Barack Obama says that despite disagreements the White House and American business leaders "can and must work together".
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Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly for independence in a recent referendum, election officials say, dividing Africa's biggest country after years of conflict.
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A fire blazes in the Samba City carnival district of Rio de Janeiro, destroying warehouses and damaging a museum.
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Two US spacecraft have moved either side of the Sun to establish observing positions that should return remarkable new information about our star.
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Egypt increases public-sector pay and pensions by 15% as protesters defy attempts to return the country to normality.
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Gary Ridgway, one of the most prolific serial killers in US history, is charged with a 49th murder, of a woman who went missing in 1982.
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Investigators in Italy are to examine claims that the mafia dominates the distribution of Sicily's famed Pachino tomatoes.
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The previous UK government did "all it could" to help facilitate the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, an official report says.
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A British journalist who reported on Wikileaks cables containing criticism of Russia's leadership says he has been expelled from the country.
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