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Plans to expand the eurozone's debt rescue fund to about 1tn euros look unlikely to be achieved, but the extra bailout money will still be "substantial".
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The dogs that patrol Greenland's icy riches
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Brazilian producers aim to win over football fans in 2014
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A US businessman is released after being held on a Caribbean island since August over the disappearance of a US woman he says was swept away snorkelling.
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China at the heart of closely-fought Taiwan race
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Three US wealth managers who picked up a $254m lottery jackpot deny claims they only collected the cheque for the real winner, a client of theirs.
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The secretary general of the Arab League tells the BBC that its approval of unprecedented sanctions against Syria has sent a serious political message.
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Votes are being counted in Egypt after the second day of voting in the first elections since former President Mubarak was overthrown.
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China increases the level at which people in rural areas are considered poor to $1 a day, a move that should see millions more get state benefits.
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A cross-party parliamentary group is urging the Tanzanian government to prosecute those guilty of corruption or bribery over the sale of a BAE Systems air traffic control package.
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Profits at Italian fashion house Prada soar in the third quarter boosted by increased sales in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Hillary Clinton begins a ground breaking visit to Burma in the first such trip by an American Secretary of State for 50 years.
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Samsung wins a major battle in its tussle with Apple after an Australian court overturns a ban on the sale of its Galaxy tab.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron warns Iran of "serious consequences" after protesters stormed the British embassy and a UK compound in Tehran.
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North Korea says it is "progressing apace" with the building of a nuclear reactor, in a dramatic snub to the US and South Korea.
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Amnesty International calls on the US to stop jailing minors for life without parole, and ratify a UN convention on the issue.
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Britons staying in Iran are being warned to stay indoors and to keep a low profile after hundreds of protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran.
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Exiles and refugees watch Burma change with a wary eye
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The US company Newmont which plans to build a huge open-cast gold mine in northern Peru says it is halting construction after days of protests.
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The Indian economy grows at its slowest pace in two-years, as the manufacturing and mining industry suffer.
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India's PM Manmohan Singh defends the decision to open the retail market to global chains, but parliament again adjourns in uproar.
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Russian officials say Andrei Lugovoi, the man accused by the UK of killing ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, was himself a victim of polonium poisoning.
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Britain withdraws some diplomatic staff from Iran after protesters ransack its embassy, amid worsening relations over Iran's nuclear programme.
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Police in Hong Kong investigate possible arson following a fire in Mongkok that killed nine people and injured dozens more.
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Hillary Clinton expresses cautious hope for reform in Burma, as she begins a landmark visit to the diplomatically isolated South East Asian nation.
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Steve Rosenberg met a pensioner from the town, Galina Lavrukhina. A retired doctor, she receives pension of around £150 a month and by the time she has paid her utility bills and done her shopping, there is nothing left.
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An armed man who shot and wounded two people is killed at Topkapi Palace in the Turkish city, Istanbul.
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The US leads calls for Pakistan to reconsider its boycott of next week's Bonn Conference on Afghanistan's future.
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Congress in Honduras votes to allow Honduran troops to carry out police duties in a bid to curb the high level of crime and violence.
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A US judge orders social media sites and search engines to remove firms selling counterfeit goods from their pages.
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Police in Hong Kong have launched an investigation into a fire in a Kowloon street-market which killed nine people and injured more than 30 others.
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China says it will cut the limit on the amount of cash the country's banks have to hold in reserve, a move designed to encourage more lending.
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The National Theatre's production of Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors, starring Lenny Henry, opens to positive reviews in London, while the production's programme contains its own mistake.
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Workers flee in panic after a disgruntled snake charmer lets loose dozens of snakes in a revenue office in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state.
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US police find one of the most sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnels to date on the border with Mexico, complete with lighting and transport carts.
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Scotland Yard is training more officers to use baton rounds - also known as plastic bullets - according to a police report into the August riots.
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The German Intelligence Service (BND) destroyed files of 250 staff who were once in the Nazi police, historians discover.
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African observers say the Democratic Republic of Congo has held "successful" elections, despite opposition calls for the polls to be annulled because of alleged fraud.
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A new national survey in Afghanistan suggests a decline in maternal mortality figures as standards in antenatal care improve.
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Results from Guyana's general election on Monday continue to come in, amid indications of a strong challenge to the ruling party.
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The London School of Economics is criticised for a "chapter of failures" in its links with the Gaddafi regime in Libya.
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Israel says it will release tens of millions of dollars of tax money that it has withheld from the Palestinian Authority over the past month.
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A satellite image captures apparently extensive damage from an explosion at a military base near Tehran earlier this month.
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Tens of thousands attend rallies around the UK as a public sector strike over pensions disrupts schools, hospitals and other services.
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EU finance ministers meet in Brussels after amid warnings that the region has days to take decisive action to resolve the crisis.
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Oscar Wilde's restored tomb is unveiled in Paris, complete with a glass barrier to make it 'kiss-proof'.
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A German court rules that a Muslim student does not have the right to pray at school if that act might cause conflict.
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The supreme court in Belarus sentences two men to death for a metro bombing in Minsk in April which killed 15 people.
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Why Turkey is treading cautiously in exerting pressure on Syria
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Canada's GDP third quarter growth exceeds expectations and grows by 3.5%, fuelled by exports and leaving doubts over whether it can be sustained.
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UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran by protesters, Foreign Secretary William Hague announces.
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Burma reform put to test on Clinton landmark visit
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England will appoint an interim coach for the Six Nations with the aim of appointing a permanent boss for the summer tour of South Africa.
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A gang in north Afghanistan reportedly indignant at a father's refusal to give his daughter up for marriage spray the family of five with acid.
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Ginger White, who says she and Herman Cain had a 13-year affair, tells US TV the former pizza mogul would not make a good president.
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The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome explains an embarrassing blunder surrounding the naming of a new member of Italy's new technocratic government.
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US police raid Occupy Wall Street camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting 200 protesters and tearing up their tent cities.
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A Chinese farmer has become a local celebrity as he bears a striking resemblance to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Turkey's foreign minister announces sanctions on Syria over its crackdown on protests, saying Syrian leaders have reached "the end of the road".
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A French court jails five Somali men for between four and eight years for hijacking a yacht and taking a French couple hostage.
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The UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran by protesters, Foreign Secretary William Hague announces.
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Oscar Wilde's restored tomb is unveiled in Paris, complete with a glass barrier to make it "kiss-proof".
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US President Barack Obama warns of a "massive blow" to the economy if Republicans oppose his calls to extend a payroll tax cut.
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Three alleged members of a rebel group are arrested in Colombia on suspicion of kidnapping 10-year-old Nohora Valentina Munoz last September.
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Reverend Billy Graham, the US evangelical preacher, has been admitted to a North Carolina hospital for possible pneumonia, his spokesman says.
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