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Hubble bubble - What got Romanian witches reaching for their spell books?
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Why African leaders may fear south Sudan split
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The Dominican Republic launches its first major operation against illegal Haitian immigrants since it stopped deporting them after last year's earthquake.
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England win the final Ashes Test against Australia in Sydney by an innings and 83 runs to wrap up the series 3-1 for their first win down under in 24 years.
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A British-owned cruise ship has sailed into the Cuban capital, Havana - the first in years to dock in the Communist-run island.
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England beat Australia by an innings and 83 runs to seal the Ashes series 3-1 and secure their first series win down under in 24 years.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates announces a $78bn (£50.3bn) military budget cut, to be achieved in part by scrapping weapons systems
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Why Czech doctors are quitting en masse
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Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas Eve amid tight security after a bomb attack on a church in Egypt in which 23 people died
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's embattled coalition ally Guido Westerwelle has defended the record of his Free Democrats (FDP) in a defiant speech.
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Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo is expelling the British and Canadian ambassadors, a statement on state television says.
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A strike in favour of a new state shuts schools and colleges in the Telangana region of southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Eggs from German farms where animal feed has been contaminated by dioxins have been sent to the UK and the Netherlands.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates announces a $78bn (£50.3bn) military budget cut, to be achieved in part by scrapping weapons systems.
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Two Indonesian policemen are jailed for 10 years for selling arms to Islamic militants at a training camp in Aceh.
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Gunmen kill eight people - four of them children - as they open fire on a minibus in central Honduras, police say.
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Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas amid tight security after a bomb attack on a church in Egypt in which 23 people died.
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A UK-based Hong Kong businessman offers £5m for the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, which is being auctioned.
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A US judge delays the fraud trial of Texan billionaire Allen Stanford after hearing psychiatric evidence that he is suffering from depression.
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Captain Andrew Strauss says England's Ashes-winning heroes have yet to reach their peak after the 3-1 series victory in Australia.
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Officials shut 4,700 farms in Germany amid a scandal over animal feed contaminated with the poisonous chemical dioxin.
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Oscar-winning actor Sir Michael Caine receives France's highest cultural honour in Paris.
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The Greek population of Istanbul, once thriving in numbers, has fallen to such a low level that one Greek school in the city has only one pupil left.
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Four people die in a US drone strike in north-west Pakistan.
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Tim Southee and Kane Williamson lead a New Zealand fightback as they reach 260-7 on day one of the first Test against Pakistan in Hamilton.
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter expects the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be held in January because of the country's intensely hot summers.
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A US judge has dismissed legal action accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of copying the work of another author.
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Israeli troops shoot dead a 67-year-old Palestinian man by mistake in an operation to arrest members of the Islamist militant organisation, Hamas.
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Roy Hodgson looks set to remain as Liverpool manager this weekend after the club's American owners take no decision over his future.
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Turkey's small Greek community struggles to keep traditions alive
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Former world number one Ana Ivanovic hopes to have recovered from a stomach injury in time to play at the Australian Open.
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The US and the IMF criticise the Pakistani government's decision to reverse a recent fuel price rise.
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A man who helped Malian police arrest a Tunisian national as he attacked the French embassy in the capital, Bamako, is hailed as a hero for his bravery.
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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev rejects the idea of scrapping elections and holding a referendum to extend his term in office until 2020.
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Southern Sudan gears up for independence vote
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The EU plans to reject Tehran's invitation for an EU ambassador to tour Iran's controversial nuclear sites.
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Ghana's president says force will not solve the deadlock in Ivory Coast, casting doubt on West Africa's threat to send troops to oust Laurent Gbagbo.
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Some 400 high-tech South African traffic lights are out of action after thieves in Johannesburg stole the mobile phone Sim cards they contained - racking up huge bills.
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French police seal off an office building opposite the Elysee Palace as squatters taunt President Nicolas Sarkozy over housing.
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German officials investigate possible "illegal activity" after a company allegedly supplied 25 animal feed makers with 3,000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids, triggering a health scare.
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The terrorist threat level specific to major UK transport hubs has been raised from substantial to severe.
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India tries to persuade Pakistan to resume the export of onions overland as prices soar, putting pressure on the Indian government.
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A Haitian journalist on his country's year of woes
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Zambian village shows how the continent sees its internet future
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Aretha Franklin tells a US magazine she is "feeling great" after surgery for an undisclosed illness, saying "the problem has been resolved".
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The Sri Lankan army begins buying and selling low-cost vegetables to help people deal with rising food costs in the country.
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The United Nations says it is increasingly concerned that Israel is about to tighten access restrictions to the occupied West Bank.
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At least 17 people die and many are injured in a blast at a public bath house in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
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Eggs from German farms where animal feed has been contaminated by dioxins have been used in some British cakes and quiches, the BBC has learned.
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The Netherlands is to send a 545-strong police training force to Afghanistan, months after withdrawing combat troops.
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Sudanese singer Mary Boyoi has been campaigning hard for secession
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Hundreds of protesters in Kabul accuse Iran of blocking fuel tankers from crossing the border into Afghanistan.
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Rediscovered documents show Nazi Germany was so angry by a Finnish dog which gave Hitler salutes it launched a campaign against its owner.
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There has been further rioting in parts of the Algerian capital by hundreds of youths angry over increasing food prices.
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Pakistan's prime minister yanks his government back from the brink as a key ally decides to rejoin the coalition, amid mounting turmoil in the country.
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Final rallies are held in south Sudan's capital, Juba, ahead of Sunday's vote on independence for the south of the country from the north.
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Premier League managers come out against the idea of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar being played in January.
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Vang Pao, the former general and Hmong leader whom a CIA chief called "the biggest hero of the Vietnam War", dies in exile aged 81.
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An explosion at the Horizon Oil Sands facility in Canada injures at least three workers and forces the site to suspend operations.
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Police in Brazil have arrested a reporter who they say was working as an informant for a drug gang in exchange for tip-offs on the gang's crimes.
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The French president asks the country's intelligence service to investigate suspected industrial spying at carmaker Renault.
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Tests on a contaminated German animal feed ingredient suggest it contained more than 77 times the approved amount of the toxic chemical dioxin.
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Men and women are banned from shaking hands or chatting in public in a district of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab.
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The US unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% in December from 9.8% in November, the biggest one-month drop since April 1998, figures show.
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The US is showing signs of "self-sustaining recovery", but is growing too slowly to create jobs, the Fed's Ben Bernanke says.
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Two imprisoned sisters whose sentences were dropped on the condition that one donate her kidney to the other are released from US jail.
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Fresh rioting breaks out in the Algerian capital and several other cities, after days of unrest over food price increases and unemployment.
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Beatriz Elena Henao, accused of trafficking large quantities of amphetamines, is extradited from Colombia to the US to face trial.
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Weeks of heavy rain in Brazil have left tens of thousands homeless and so far killed 35 people.
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Russian Nikolay Davydenko beats ill top seed Rafael Nadal to set up a Qatar Open final date with Roger Federer.
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Manchester City complete the £27m signing of Bosnian international striker Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg.
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An explosion in the south of Afghanistan has killed at least 17 people and wounded many others
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Hungary at pains not to let media furore cloud its EU leadership
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The US state department summons Tunisia's ambassador to Washington to express concerns about protests in the North African country.
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Somalia, a footballer for Brazilian club Botafogo, will be charged for falsely reporting he had been kidnapped when he was late for training, police say.
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Two of the US's biggest mortgage lenders have had two mortgage foreclosures cancelled in a case that could affect others.
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Hungary's prime minister has said he wants to defuse political tensions over his country's contentious new media law which is seen by critics as an attack on press freedom.
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Millions of people are preparing to vote in a referendum that could split one of Africa's poorest nations into two countries. The ballot in Sudan is likely to see the south break away from the north.
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Israel says a friendly fire incident killed one soldier and wounded four on the Gaza border.
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President Obama signs a law effectively barring him from using taxpayer dollars to empty the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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