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Mexican media organisations agree common guidelines on how to report the country's drug-related violence.
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Brazilian prosecutors arrest five police officers after a video showed some of them apparently shooting a 14-year-old boy.
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McLaren's Jenson Button sets the fastest time in practice ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton in second practice at Albert Park.
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A Gurkha who single-handedly fought off an attack by at least a dozen Taliban insurgents is among 136 UK service personnel honoured for bravery.
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Guatemala's First Lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, confirmed that she is divorcing president Alvaro Colom so she can stand for election to succeed him.
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Macau gambling billionaire Stanley Ho gives up almost all his share in the casino empire he built up over five decades.
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BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, says it will expand its Australian iron ore and coal mining projects.
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Nato is to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya, but other aspects of the military operation will remain in coalition hands.
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Supporters of Jordan's government clash with protesters setting up a camp in the capital Amman to demand political reforms.
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The IMF says the cost of recovery from the earthquake and tsunami can be borne by Japan but power shortages are worrying.
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The licences of 14 pilots are revoked by India's aviation authorities for allegedly faking their documents, the latest in a series of scandals involving Indian airline pilots.
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Syria's government announces a series of reforms, aimed at quelling rising unrest in the country's south.
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South Africa collapse dramatically as New Zealand win by 49 runs to reach the World Cup semi-finals.
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The death toll from Japan's 11 March earthquake and tsunami passes 10,000, with more than 17,000 still missing, police say.
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The retrial of American Nancy Kissel in Hong Kong finds her guilty of murdering her husband in 2003 by lacing his milkshake with a sedative and beating him to death.
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A book advising dentists on how to run their practices Mongolian warlord style wins the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.
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Australia launches an investigation into racist videos and comments allegedly posted on social networking site Facebook by troops serving in Afghanistan.
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Chinese veteran democracy activist Liu Xianbin is sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power.
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The three main opposition candidates pull out of TV debates with Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of next month's poll.
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp denies claim that Gareth Bale was injured before joining the Wales squad for Saturday's match with England.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the UN-mandated military operation was proving effective in protecting civilians, telling the BBC that he believed it would prevail over Col Gaddafi's forces.
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McLaren's Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton head Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in second practice at the Australian Grand Prix.
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South Korea is to discipline 10 current and ex-diplomats at its consulate in Shanghai, in connection with a sex scandal involving a Chinese woman.
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European leaders agree a restructuring of a financial bail-out fund, but concerns about Portugal intensify.
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Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, best known for such plays as Burn This and Fifth of July, dies aged 73.
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Brazil's Embraer, one of the world's largest plane makers, reports a fall in 2010 profits and forecasts that deliveries may fall this year.
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At least eight people are dead and 15 kidnapped in north-west Pakistan after gunmen attacked a convoy of Shia Muslims who recently struck a peace deal with the local Taliban.
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An investigation is under way in Japan to establish the source of the radiation leak at the quake-hit nuclear plant, which left two workers in hospital.
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Syria's government announces a series of reforms, aimed at quelling rising unrest in the country's south.
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At least 75 people are known to have died in Burma after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck near the country's borders with Laos and Thailand.
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Nato says it will take command of the no-fly zone over Libya, and may assume broader control of the international military operation in the coming days.
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A political activist is killed along with three others as targeted killings continue across Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
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The devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan two weeks ago have left the town of Otsuchi in north east of the country devastated.
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Michelle Jana Chan travels to Bandhavgarh National Park to try to get up close and personal with an Indian tiger.
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The daily morning business round-up: Eurozone leaders agree terms for a new bail-out fund but fears continue over Portugal's financial health.
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Tens of thousands of people gather in Yemen's capital Sanaa for rival rallies, a week after some 50 people were shot dead at a protest.
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US economy grows faster than first thought in the final months of 2010, according to the Commerce Department.
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The European Union should offer Japan a free trade deal to help it recover from the tsunami, UK Prime Minister David Cameron says.
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US states hope online gambling will cure their budget blues
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One of the ministers in charge of Zimbabwe's police tells the BBC she is in hiding for fear she would be arrested as part of a Zanu-PF plot against the MDC.
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Night Stalker rapist Delroy Grant, who carried out a series of sex attacks on elderly people, is jailed for 27 years.
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England coast to a comfortable win against Wales as their campaign to reach Euro 2012 stays on course at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
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The BBC Chinese Service makes its final radio broadcast in Mandarin after nearly 70 years - a casualty of the BBC World Service spending cuts.
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Nato will be in complete charge of operations over Libya in the next few days according to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague.
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England boss Fabio Capello admits he made mistakes over the captaincy issue and that he has still not spoken to former skipper Rio Ferdinand.
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Uganda will freeze Libyan assets worth $375m (£230m), mainly in the telecommunications, hotel, banking and oil sectors, the government says.
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Muttiah Muralitharan tells the BBC that he will be fit to play against England in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final in Colombo.
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Russian shareholders of oil joint venture TNK-BP succeed in blocking BP's Arctic exploration deal with state-owned Rosneft.
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The Canadian parliament begins debate on a no-confidence motion expected to topple the Conservative government and trigger a May election.
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The chairman of Russian energy giant Rosneft says he wants to push ahead with his company's alliance with BP.
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New Zealand beat South Africa by 49 runs to reach the World Cup semi-finals following a dramatic collapse from the Proteas.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague says Nato will be able to take control of the entire military operation in Libya "within days".
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Britain's Jason Kenny wins silver in the men's sprint, while Victoria Pendleton reaches the semi-finals of the women's sprint on day three in Apeldoorn.
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Colonel Gaddafi's forces have claimed many civilians have been killed by the coalition forces imposing a no-fly zone over the skies of Libya.
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India's prime minister invites Pakistan's leaders to join him for the cricket World Cup clash between the South Asian rivals to be hosted in India next week.
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A man dies after Jordanian security forces use batons and spray water to disperse a clash between pro-monarchy and pro-reform demonstrators in Amman.
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Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is reportedly arming volunteers to fight the uprising against his rule, a US official says.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative minority government falls after a no-confidence vote passes in the parliament.
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Britain's Jason Kenny wins silver in the men's sprint as Frenchman Gregory Bauge successfully defends his world title.
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An order of US Catholic priests agrees to pay $166.1m (£103.3m) to hundreds of Native Americans sexually abused by priests at its schools.
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Syrians stage anti-goverment rallies in the capital, Damascus, and other towns and cities, amid reports that protesters have been killed.
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In Yemen tens of thousands of people have taken part in rival demonstrations in the capital Sanaa.
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Protests have been staged in towns and cities across Syria, including the capital Damascus, a day after the government announced limited changes.
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Countries involved in the military coalition over Libya have been finessing a deal to transfer political control of their campaign to Nato, trying to move all military operations, from the US-led campaign.
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A Texas beauty contest winner who claimed she was stripped of her crown because she gained weight wins her courtroom fight to regain the title.
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Spanish airport workers call off strikes planned for the busy tourist season after concerns over job security and conditions are satisfied.
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French and British planes bomb Colonel Gaddafi's forces on the outskirts of the town of Ajdabiya, as rebels fight to take control of the town.
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Spain announces new economic measures in order to reassure markets that the country's deficit is under control
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The turmoil in the Middle East has spread to Syria which has seen unprecedented challenges to the ten year rule of President Assad.
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Anti-nuclear protests take place in Tokyo as an investigation is under way to establish the source of a radiation leak, two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.
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