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ZambiaWhy China is interested in Zambia's presidential race
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United KingdomA senior Conservative MP calls on Prime Minister David Cameron to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.
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FranceThe French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn has given his first interview since he was accused of attempting to rape a maid at a hotel in New York.
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PhilippinesA simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country's poorest people.
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AustraliaIndian infrastructure giant GVK says it will pay $1.26bn (£802m) to buy a majority stake in coal assets owned by Australia's Hancock Group.
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South KoreaFinancial regulators in South Korea suspend seven local savings banks citing the weak state of their finances.
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AfghanistanA steep increase in the number of night raids carried out by foreign forces in Afghanistan has provoked a backlash, researchers say.
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Nepal, United KingdomDozens of people have been killed after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shakes north-eastern India, Nepal and Tibet.
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FranceFashion retailer French Connection reports higher profits and says it sees "great opportunities" for the business.
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United StatesAustralian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd does some fast talking to get a suspicious liquid - a jar of Vegemite - onto a US-bound plane.
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YemenAt least 26 demonstrators are killed by Yemeni security forces during a march in Sanaa, as protest leaders vow to continue.
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MexicoMexican officials confirm that two bodies found with bullet wounds are federal congressman Moises Villanueva and his driver, missing for two weeks.
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United KingdomITV1 drama Downton Abbey wins four prizes and actress Kate Winslet takes the best actress in mini-series honour in a night of British success at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
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GreeceProtests have been continuing in Greece at the country's planned austerity programme, which is meant to ensure Greece will secure its next bailout loan.
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South KoreaSouth Korea's president pledges $89m to revive the country's reputation as a world leader in stem cell research, five years after a damaging scandal.
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AustraliaAustralia's opposition rejects the government's proposed immigration law changes, as PM Julia Gillard scrambles to salvage a controversial asylum plan.
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Greenland, United KingdomLeading UK polar scientists say the Times Atlas of the World was wrong to assert that it has had to re-draw its map of Greenland due to climate change.
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ChinaChina closes a solar panel factory in the east of the country after violent protests by local residents over pollution fears, state media report.
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PakistanAt least eight people were killed when a car packed with explosives was blown up outside the house of a senior police officer in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
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FranceFrench newspapers react to Strauss-Kahn's first TV interview
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RussiaThe navigator of a plane that crashed in Russia in June killing 47 people had been drinking, one of several factors in the crash, a report says.
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ChinaChinese regulators order a TV station to stop broadcasting popular singing show Super Girl, saying it is too long.
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PakistanAt least eight people are killed when a car packed with explosives is blown up outside the house of a senior police officer in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
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LebanonA comedy set in war-torn Lebanon scoops the People's Choice award - won last year by The King's Speech - at Toronto International Film Festival.
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Sri LankaLingerie marks Sri Lankan designer's arrival
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New ZealandLeicester's Thomas Waldrom is to fly out to New Zealand as World Cup cover for England number eight Nick Easter.
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IndiaRescue efforts are under way across isolated Himalayan regions in India, Nepal and Tibet after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck on Sunday.
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SudanSudan and South Sudan agree to set up 10 border crossings in a bid to reduce tension following the South's independence in July.
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United StatesThe US singer has picked up nominations in six categories ahead of the ceremony in Belfast in November.
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United Arab EmiratesEmirati illusionist Moein Al Bastaki wants to be the Gulf's answer to David Copperfield and has plans to open the UAE's first school of magic.
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Hong KongHong Kong police have seized more than half a tonne of cocaine in a warehouse raid.
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NorwayAnders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in July, will remain in custody for two more months, half the term in solitary confinement, a court rules.
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Kenya, United KingdomA Kenyan man appears in court and pleads not guilty to two charges following the murder of a British tourist and the abduction of his wife.
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United KingdomBailiffs arrive at the UK's largest illegal traveller site at Dale Farm in Essex and urge campaigners to stop obstructing the process of evicting families who live there.
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United KingdomBusiness Secretary Vince Cable tells the Liberal Democrat conference that the economic challenges facing the UK are the "equivalent of war".
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United KingdomMore than a million tickets for the London Olympics, held back from sale earlier this year while seating plans were finalised, will not be available until next Spring, the BBC has learned.
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IranIran arrests film-makers it accuses of working for the BBC Persian service a day after it showed a film about Ayatollah Khamenei, but the BBC denies employing anyone inside Iran.
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IndiaA senior judge and ombudsman in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has resigned following allegations he has breached land ownership laws.
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United StatesUS firm Netflix has announced that it will split its DVD-by-post business from its movie streaming service.
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SyriaSyrian security forces reportedly kill five people in raids against dissidents in Homs province, as a crackdown that the UN says has left 2,700 dead continues.
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CyprusCyprus says it has begun exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean in defiance of Turkish anger at the plans.
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United KingdomBritish tennis player Andy Murray insists there is a very real threat of strike action over a packed tennis calendar.
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BurundiAt least 36 people are killed after unidentified gunmen open fire at a crowded bar near the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, officials say.
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BoliviaTwo 17th Century paintings stolen from a church in Bolivia 13 years ago have been recovered, following a lead from a Washington art dealer.
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CanadaCanadian documentary maker Rob Spence, who lost his right eye six years ago, has developed a simple camera eye which fits into his eye socket.
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United StatesPresident Obama outlines plans to cut the US deficit by $3tn, but Republicans object to his proposal to raise taxes on high earners.
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Sri LankaSri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa clarifies earlier reports about the fate of a Muslim shrine destroyed by a crowd of Buddhist monks.
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YemenSecurity forces in Yemen kill more than 50 people in two days of violence, activists say, in the bloodiest clashes for months.
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BangladeshPolice in Bangladesh fire rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a protest by supporters of an Islamist party in the capital Dhaka.
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ZambiaThousands of policemen have been deployed in Zambia to prevent violence in Tuesday's fiercely contested elections, the police chief says.
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DenmarkA necklace that belonged to a passenger on the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic has been stolen from a temporary exhibition in Copenhagen.
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LibyaAnti-Gaddafi forces have captured two key positions close to the southern city of Sabha, says a spokesman for Libya's transitional authorities.
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PakistanEight people have been killed in a bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Karachi aimed at a top security official.
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MexicoPrisoners in three jails in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz stage an almost simultaneous prison break, during which 32 inmates escape.
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GreeceWorld share markets fall, and oil and the euro are also down, on fresh worries about a Greek debt default.
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GreeceGreece says talks with its debt inspectors due to resume on Tuesday were 'productive and substantive', as the IMF ups pressure on Athens.
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United StatesA 17-year sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla was too lenient, a US appeal court rules.
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LibyaEuropean countries have "shamefully failed" to help thousands of refugees stranded near Libya's borders, Amnesty International says.
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United StatesUS death row inmate Troy Davis - whose case has won the support of the Pope and former President Jimmy Carter - makes an 11th-hour appeal for clemency.
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