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United KingdomA female security guard is arrested near the Olympic Stadium in east London on suspicion of possessing explosives.
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SpainThe babies taken from their parents and never seen again
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Guatemala, 
United StatesUS and Guatemalan agents capture Guatemala's most-wanted drugs suspect, Juan Ortiz Lopez, in a raid in Quetzaltenango.
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Libya, United StatesUS President Barack Obama has secretly authorised covert aid to rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, US reports say.
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Japan, United StatesAmerican Airlines is reducing the number of flights to Japan as travel demand falls after the earthquake and tsunami.
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Israel, 
ArgentinaIsrael says Argentina pledged "deep commitment" to investigating two 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Buenos Aires, after media reports to the contrary.
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ThailandAt least 15 people have been killed in heavy flooding in southern Thailand after more than a week of unseasonably heavy rain.
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United StatesLegislators in the US state of Ohio pass a bill that will severely limit the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers, despite protests.
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ChinaChinese search engine Baidu has deleted 2.8m works from its online library in an attempt to settle a copyright dispute.
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Libya, United KingdomLibyan FM Moussa Koussa arrives in Britain and "is resigning", the UK Foreign Office says, as rebel fighters are pushed back by Gaddafi forces.
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IndiaAward-winning Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja is sentenced to seven years in prison for raping his maid.
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United StatesKim Clijsters says she lacked "fighting spirit" after losing to Victoria Azarenka at the Sony Ericsson Open, while Novak Djokovic maintains his winning run.
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Libya, United KingdomLibyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is in Britain and "no longer willing" to work for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the Foreign Office has said.
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France, 
GermanyA German doctor who was cleared of the manslaughter of his stepdaughter in his home country has been told he will have to stand trial for the same crime in France.
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China, United StatesThe US is increasing its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, which is becoming more "volatile", a Chinese defence white paper says.
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ChinaIndustrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank by market value, reports better-than-expected results for 2010.
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ChinaGoogle says reports of its pulling back from China have been 'greatly exaggerated', as a deadline looms for its mapping service to continue in the country.
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Iraq, 
UgandaThe Ugandan women 'exported' to Iraq - and their daring escape
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SwitzerlandTwo women have been hurt in an explosion at offices belonging to lobby group Swissnuclear in the northern Swiss city of Olten.
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YemenOne of Yemen's most influential politicians, Hamid al-Ahmar, says President Saleh must leave the country, not just step down from power.
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Tunisia, United Kingdom, LibyaUK officials say they want other senior Libyan officials to abandon Col Gaddafi after his foreign minister flees to Britain and resigns.
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Pakistan, IndiaIndia and Pakistan's PMs pledge to repair relations between the countries, as they watched India beat Pakistan in their World Cup cricket clash.
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Cuba, United StatesFormer American president Jimmy Carter says US policy towards Cuba, including the trade embargo and travel ban, is a mistake
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ArubaAustralian band Men At Work lose an appeal against a court ruling that their hit Down Under was partially copied from a folk song.
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South AfricaA former South African rugby star appears in court for allegedly hacking three men to death with an axe.
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YemenOne of Yemen's most influential political figures, Hamid al-Ahmar, has told the BBC, that the country's president Ali Abdullah Saleh must not only stand down, but leave the country as well.
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United StatesJennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and singer Alicia Keys are to direct short films about breast cancer, due to be aired on US cable network Lifetime.
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Germany, ChinaPolice in Germany arrest six people - four of them ethnic Chinese - over alleged forgery of euro coins worth about 6m euros (£5.3m).
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India, United KingdomUK mobile giant Vodafone is to pay local partner Essar Group $5bn to buy out its share in their Indian joint venture.
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United KingdomLiverpool manager Kenny Dalglish says Andy Carroll is focused on football, despite England boss Fabio Capello's concerns.
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SyriaSyria's president directs a committee to look into lifting unpopular emergency laws in place for nearly half a century, the state news agency reports.
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JapanRoland Buerk reports from Oirase, where a sea wall proved decisive in protecting citizens from the tsunami that devastated Japan's north east coast.
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JapanThe UN's nuclear watchdog advises Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima reactors.
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LibyaColonel Gaddafi's forces have continued to clash with rebels along the Libyan coastline, managing to push the opposition further back towards Ajdabiya.
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PakistanAt least 10 people are killed in Pakistan after a suicide bomber hits the convoy of hardline Islamist leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, police say.
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United StatesBBC's Louis Theroux returns to visit US’s most hated family
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SpainRepsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa will race in Sunday's Spanish MotoGP despite discovering he is suffering from damaged nerves in his arm.
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South AfricaIvorian President Laurent Gbagbo's army chief seeks refuge with the South African ambassador in Abidjan as troops loyal to the rival president "arrive at city's gates".
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Sri LankaPolice in Sri Lanka arrest the editor of a news website critical of the government.
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France, ChinaLeaders at the G20 meeting in Nanjing move towards agreeing that China's currency should have a wider role in global finance.
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Austria, 
GreeceAustrian judo medallist Claudia Heill, who won silver at the Athens Olympics, dies after falling from a sixth-floor window in Vienna.
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United KingdomJustice Secretary Ken Clarke says the military is on standby if prison officers strike over the first privatisation of a UK public sector prison.
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Brazil, United Kingdom, 
BotswanaScottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan writes to the Brazilian FA to request an apology for Neymar's accusation of racism from Scotland fans.
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TaiwanTaiwan hopes its medical services will impress
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NorwayUK government ministers say they will not reverse the Budget decision to raise taxes on North Sea oil profits.
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Ukraine, IsraelA Gaza engineer, who was allegedly abducted by Israeli agents in Ukraine, has appeared in court in Israel.
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France, JapanThe French president calls for clear international standards on nuclear safety as the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant continues.
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Libya, United KingdomThe UK says it has not offered immunity from prosecution to Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, who reportedly defected when he flew to Britain on Wednesday.
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United KingdomA youth thought to have been targeted by the gang who shot a five-year-old girl and another man in south London contacts police.
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LibyaAfter making gains at the weekend the rebels have been pushed back, retreating from the oil port of Brega towards Ajdabiya.
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IrelandThe Republic of Ireland's banks need an extra 24bn euros (£21.2bn) to survive the financial crisis.
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United StatesThe World Trade Organization rules that Boeing received at least $5.3bn (£3.3bn) in unfair subsidies from Washington.
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United StatesTug boats free a freighter that ran aground in the St Lawrence Seaway, which runs along the US-Canada border, blocking passage for 10 hours.
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Libya, United KingdomThe Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the apparent defection to Britain of one of Colonel Gaddafi's most senior ministers shows the Libyan regime is crumbling from within.
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PortugalThe Portuguese governments admits it overshot its 2010 budget deficit target, sending its cost of borrowing to yet new highs.
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United StatesUS congressional leaders labour on a deal that could cut a record $33bn (£20.6bn) from the government budget by October.
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IrelandThe Republic of Ireland's banks need an extra 24bn euros (£21.2bn) to survive the financial crisis, the central bank announces.
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EgyptA venomous Egyptian cobra which went missing from the Bronx Zoo in New York has been found after six days, zoo officials say.
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GermanyGerman police say they have detained a 25-year-old man after three suspected explosive devices were found outside Borussia Dortmund's stadium.
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MexicoMexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez resigns, after 18 months marked by the battle against violent drugs cartels.
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United KingdomA 19-year-old man is held on suspicion of the attempted murder of a five-year-old girl shot in a shop in south London.
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LibyaOil prices rise to their highest close in two-and-a-half years as Libya's conflict and Middle East unrest spark fresh worries.
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Austria, United StatesAustria police have arrested a man suspected of robbing banks while wearing a mask of US President Barack Obama.
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Libya, United StatesCol Muammar Gaddafi's forces are not at breaking point yet, US military chiefs warn, saying allied air strikes have wiped out up to 25% of their strength.
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United KingdomEngland is now the only part of the UK still charging for prescriptions as Scotland joins Wales and Northern Ireland in abolishing the fees.
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United KingdomAsafa Powell and Tyson Gay will go head-to-head twice in the UK this summer in London and Birmingham ahead of London 2012.
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United StatesThe millions of tonnes of chicken feathers discarded each year could be used in plastics, researchers say in a report to the American Chemical Society meeting.
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