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South Africa, 
BrazilBrazil and South Africa boost their global image as a BBC poll on national views shows growing credibility for "middle powers".
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ChinaWhy being 'urban' or 'rural' matters in China
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United KingdomForms are being posted to households around the UK, ahead of the 2011 Census being carried out on Sunday 27 March.
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United States, 
MexicoMexico asks the US for detailed information on a law enforcement operation that allegedly allowed guns to be smuggled across the border.
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ChinaChina will keep developing its high-speed rail network despite corruption allegations, the state Xinhua news agency reports.
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IndiaA rare glimpse of life in India's Maoist jungle camps
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EgyptKnife-wielding men attack Egyptian pro-democracy activists in Cairo for the first time since President Hosni Mubarak resigned, reports say.
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United KingdomThe largest flood defence exercise ever held in the UK is due to get under way - and will last all week, involving about 10,000 people.
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BrazilThousands enjoy carnival time across Brazil
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LibyaA day of fierce fighting in Libya has seen rebels trying to hold back an intensified counter-offensive by forces loyal to Col Gaddafi.
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United StatesDemonstrators take to New York's streets to protest against Congressional hearings which they say single out the Muslim community.
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United KingdomThe world's most expensive painting ever sold at auction - a work by Pablo Picasso - is going on show in the UK, a year after it was bought for £65.5m.
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EgyptProtesters have stormed ministry and secret police offices in Cairo to obtain documents they say show evidence of repression under former President Hosni Mubarak.
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IsraelNewsbeat is in Gaza to see what life is like for people on both sides of the Israeli border.
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FranceFormer French president Jacques Chirac's corruption trial is to begin in Paris.
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GermanyWBA heavyweight champion David Haye says he will knock out IBF and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko when the pair fight in Germany in the summer.
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EstoniaEstonians appear to have endorsed the centre-right coalition led by Andrus Ansip.
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GermanyDespite Angela Merkel occupying the top job in Germany, women are under represented in corporate Germany.
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New ZealandNew Zealand Prime Minister John Key says 10,000 homes in Christchurch cannot be rebuilt after the 22 February earthquake.
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TaiwanPolice in Taiwan detain the owner of a nightclub, where a fire killed nine people and injured 12 at the weekend.
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South Korea, 
North KoreaNorth Korea calls for a meeting with South Korea to try to resolve a row over 31 North Koreans whose boat crossed the maritime border in thick fog last month.
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BangladeshBangladesh's High Court resumes a hearing into the legality of the removal of Grameen Bank head Muhammad Yunus.
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ItalyLVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company, announces a takeover deal for Italian jeweller Bulgari.
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LibyaThe UN appoints a new envoy on Libya and is to send a humanitarian team as the battle between forces loyal to Col Gaddafi and rebels intensifies.
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LibyaAn opposition spokesman in Misrata, Mohammed Benrasali, says dozens of people have died in battles in the Libyan town.
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United StatesAnimated cowboy comedy Rango shoots to the top of the North American box office taking $38m (£23.4m) in its first weekend.
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JapanJapan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan brushes off calls for his resignation, after the foreign minister stepped down over a funding scandal at the weekend.
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VietnamA Vietnamese tour company is suspended and fined over the sinking of one of its boats last month, in which 12 people including 11 foreign tourists died.
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LibyaKate Adie, the BBC's former chief news correspondent, describes the character of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whom she met many times in the 1980s.
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IndiaIndia's Supreme Court rejects a plea to end the life of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973, but opens the door for future cases of euthanasia.
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United KingdomDowning Street sources have made it clear Prince Andrew may not survive as a UK trade envoy if there are more damaging revelations about him.
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IndiaThe BBC has been granted rare access to see what daily life is like for these rebel Maoist fighters in India..
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SpainSpanish drivers ordered to slow down to save energy
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Libya, United StatesThe daily Morning Business Round-up: Libya continues to rattle markets, while investors await US consumer credit data.
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Fiji, 
Australia, 
ArubaFormer Fijian government minister Samisoni Tikoinasau says he will seek asylum in Australia after being arrested and beaten in Fiji, an Australian newspaper reports.
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ItalyAbout 1,000 North African migrants on a dozen boats reach the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight amid turmoil in North Africa.
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Libya, United KingdomThe foreign secretary says more British diplomats may be sent to Libya despite an SAS-escorted team being captured then released over the weekend.
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United KingdomKevin Pietersen is ruled out of the rest of England's World Cup campaign because of a hernia problem, and will be replaced by Eoin Morgan.
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FranceFormer French President Jacques Chirac goes on trial on charges he misused public funds while he was mayor of Paris.
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GermanyA German radio station runs a controversial epitaph competition - and the winner gets a cheque for his or her own funeral costs.
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United KingdomUK band Squeeze will play an exclusive set of instruments designed by Damien Hirst when they headline a charity concert later this month.
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ItalyItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has undergone face surgery to restore his jaw after an attack by a man in 2009, officials say.
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JapanThe upheaval wrought by the 22 February earthquake in Christchurch, NZ, is illustrated in new radar imagery from the Japanese satellite Alos.
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GreeceRating agency Moody's downgrades Greece's debt to "highly speculative" prompting an angry response from the finance ministry.
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LibyaLibyan government forces are advancing towards the oil port of Ras Lanuf, checking the rebels' westward progress.
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EgyptAfter the fall of Hosni Mubarak, pro-democracy activists in Egypt have focused their attention on the institutions seen as enforcers of the old president
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FranceThe French finance ministry confirms it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the Paris G20 summit.
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Somalia, LibyaLibyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's son has warned that his country could become the "Somalia of north Africa".
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United KingdomBarclays chief executive Bob Diamond will receive a bonus of £6.5m for 2010, the UK bank says.
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GermanyBayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal set to leave the German club by mutual consent at the end of the season, one year before his contract was due to expire.
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IranA landmark film about the Holocaust, Shoah, is to be shown for the first time on a satellite TV channel which broadcasts into Iran.
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Sri LankaIt has emerged that a new military headquarters in northern Sri Lanka has been built on the site of a Tamil Tiger graveyard earlier flattened by the army.
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Afghanistan, United StatesThe US is "well-positioned" to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says during a visit to Kabul.
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United KingdomThe prime minister backs Prince Andrew in his role as a trade envoy, hours after No 10 sources questioned his future amid a row over his private life.
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TunisiaThe interim government in Tunisia dissolves the country's secret police service, blamed for human rights abuses during President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's rule.
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Libya, United StatesUS President Barack Obama says Nato allies are still weighing a range of options including military action in response to the conflict in Libya.
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LibyaLibyan government forces are advancing towards the oil port of Ras Lanuf, checking the rebels' westward progress.
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EgyptThirty-eight Zimbabweans arrested last month for discussing an Egypt-style uprising are freed but eight remain in custody, their lawyer says.
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TurkeyA Turkish court charges a writer and six journalists with involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the government.
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LibyaUS crude oil price hits a two-and-a-half year high while Asian stocks fall amid concern Libya could be facing a civil war.
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Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has freed a Shia cleric whose arrest provoked protests and sparked calls for a "day of rage" on Friday, human rights activists say.
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LibyaLabour accuses ministers of "serial bungling" over Libya, after the foreign secretary admits a "serious misunderstanding" wrecked an SAS mission.
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United States, MexicoPolice chief Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, hailed as Mexico's bravest woman, has lost her job after reportedly fleeing to the US to escape death threats.
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GreeceWarnings for severe gales have been issued for parts of Greece and its surrounding areas, raising fears for coastal flooding.
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EgyptMembers of Egypt's new cabinet are sworn into office at a ceremony in the captial, Cairo, almost a month after popular protests ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
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TurkeyA Bengal tiger has killed a lion at Ankara Zoo after finding a gap in the fence separating their cages, zoo officials in the Turkish capital say.
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Libya, Australia, United StatesAustralia and the US stand "shoulder to shoulder" in condemning the violence in Libya, President Barack Obama has said.
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LibyaPro-Gaddafi forces launch several air strikes on Libya's rebel-held oil port of Ras Lanuf, checking the rebels' westward progress.
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FranceThe French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held in Paris in February.
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United KingdomDundee United move into the Scottish Premier League's top six as they convincingly end Aberdeen's unbeaten run.
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama is lifting the two-year freeze on new military trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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United States, ChinaUS toy manufacturer Mattel shuts its flagship, six-storey Barbie concept store in Shanghai after two years.
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United KingdomSearch engine operator Google buys UK financial products price comparison site beatthatquote.com for £37.7m.
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Hong KongThe world's biggest aircraft manufacturers gather for the Hong Kong airshow as they try to tap into the growing Asian market.
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United StatesWarner Bros Television fires actor Charlie Sheen from the popular US sitcom Two and a Half Men, amid controversy over his behaviour.
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GuatemalaAmnesty International urges Guatemala to do more to stop high numbers of women being killed in the country, in an appeal timed to coincide with the 100th International Women's Day.
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