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United StatesHow small-town US baseball has embraced Far East's young stars
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United StatesA fatal grizzly bear attack in Yellowstone park in July may have been provoked by a couple's screaming and running, an investigation finds.
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United StatesA former lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission had a conflict of interest in the Madoff fraud case and should be investigated, a report says.
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United KingdomA preacher who claimed he could make infertile women pregnant is to be sent to his homeland of Kenya from the UK to face child abduction charges.
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United StatesMuffins costing $16 (£10) and $10 biscuits were among the "extravagant and wasteful" conference spending by the US justice department, an audit finds.
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JapanJapan's exports rise less than expected as slowing growth abroad and the strength of the yen begin to weigh on the country's economic recovery.
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IsraelRepublican White House hopefuls hit out at President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, as Palestinians prepare a bid this week for UN membership.
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LibyaDuring the fighting in Libya, there was concern over the fate of the countries historical treasures.
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IndiaHalf a dollar a day is "adequate" for an Indian villager to spend on food, education and health, the country's main planning body says.
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Sri Lanka, United KingdomBritish graves recall lost era in Sri Lanka
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Australia, United StatesAustralia name Will Genia as captain for Friday's match against the United States with open-side flanker David Pocock still absent after suffering a back injury.
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IndiaFormer boxing champion Mike Tyson is approached to join the Indian version of Big Brother, the BBC learns.
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GermanyGerman police are still trying to figure out the identity of a teenager who walked into Berlin City Hall on September 5, claiming to have lived in a forest for five years.
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West BankAs the Palestinian president brings his bid for statehood to be recognised at the UN, the BBC's Jon Donnison has been assessing the mood in the West Bank.
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United KingdomThe Scottish government is urged to drop its plan to freeze council tax for five years, amid claims the policy is unaffordable.
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PakistanA court in Pakistan passes the death penalty to seven people caught on camera beating two teenaged brothers to death last year.
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United Kingdom, JapanInsurance market Lloyd's of London says catastrophes such as the Japanese tsunami made the first half of 2011 the most expensive on record.
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PakistanThe sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi says it was behind Tuesday's gun attacks in western Pakistan in which 29 people died.
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MexicoGunmen abandon two trucks with 35 bodies inside on a busy road in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz, authorities say.
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LibyaThe last suspect in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher will be prosecuted in Libya if caught, a member of the country's new government says.
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United KingdomJonny Wilkinson is motivated as much by the fear of repeating England's early exit from the 1999 World Cup as the glory of their 2003 win.
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LiberiaPhotos of Liberia's jails 'without water and stinking of sewage'
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FranceThe Paris prosecutor asks for illegal party funding charges against former French President Jacques Chirac and nine others to be dropped.
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ChinaSouth Korea's nuclear envoy holds talks with his North Korean counterpart in Beijing, amid some signs efforts to restart stalled talks are under way.
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United StatesActors Dominic West and Clarke Peters, best known for starring in US drama The Wire, start their stage run in Shakespeare's Othello at The Crucible in Sheffield.
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United StatesCharlie Sheen's screen funeral on sitcom Two and a Half Men was watched by 28.7m in the US - the highest ratings for the show since it began in 2003.
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FranceA military-style assault on a safe deposit centre near Paris leaves one guard dead and two injured, with the attackers shooting at police as they escape.
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United KingdomPublic sector net borrowing in the UK increased in August, but data for previous months was revised down, latest figures show.
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Aruba, AustraliaBrewing giant SABMiller agrees to buy Foster's in a deal that values Australia's largest brewer at 9.9bn Australian dollars.
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United KingdomFriend's 27-year search for justice for murdered UK policewoman
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United StatesThe president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, announces measures to combat corruption, following local and foreign pressure to tackle the problem.
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AfghanistanHundreds of Afghans have gathered in Kabul to mourn High Peace Council chief Burhanuddin Rabbani and protest at his killing by a suicide bomber on Tuesday.
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ItalyGian Piero Gasperini is sacked by Inter Milan after only three months in charge of the Italian club.
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South Africa, United Kingdom, United StatesFormer gold miners in South Africa are suing industry giant Anglo American for millions of dollars in the London High Court for allegedly damaging their health, their lawyers say.
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BangladeshBangladeshi officials order the country's coast guard not to allow a suspected toxic ship, the MV Asia Union, into its waters.
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ChinaRescuers in China free two people trapped 15 meters above ground in a rollercoaster.
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EgyptThe case collapses against a Zimbabwean man accused of subversion because of an alleged Facebook post on the prime minister's page praising Egypt's uprising.
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Georgia, United StatesThe US state of Georgia has rejected a final clemency appeal for Troy Davis on the eve of his execution by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of an off-duty policeman.
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Pakistan, ChinaChina has executed Zahid Husain Shah, a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, despite last-ditch appeals for clemency, family says.
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IndiaIndian soldiers reach a hydroelectric plant in the state of Sikkim where at least 17 people were killed in a series of landslides.
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JapanImages from Japan as Typhoon Roke makes landfall
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SomaliaA Kenyan driver for an organisation providing famine aid is kidnapped in a refugee camp near the Somali border, prompting his employer to scale back its aid effort.
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JapanA powerful typhoon strikes disaster-ravaged Japan and heads towards the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, where clean-up work has been suspended.
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GreeceThe Greek cabinet is meeting to discuss accelerating austerity measures in order to secure further bailout funds.
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TunisiaItalian riot police clash with hundreds of Tunisian migrants during a protest against conditions at a reception centre on the island of Lampedusa.
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Russia, GermanyGerman conductor Kurt Sanderling, who fled Nazi Germany for Moscow in 1936 before returning in 1960, dies in Berlin at the age of 98.
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YemenAt least three people are killed as fresh clashes erupt in the Yemeni capital Sanaa despite a ceasefire agreed on Tuesday aiming to end days of violence.
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Germany, United KingdomGermany's Tony Martin dominates the World Road Cycling time trial as Britain's Bradley Wiggins pips Fabian Cancellara to silver.
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SloveniaSlovenia's government falls after losing a confidence vote but seeks to assure partners that the EU bailout fund will be ratified by MPs next week.
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ItalyDozens of migrants leap from a balcony to escape police clashes on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily.
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Sri LankaOne of the world's largest refugee camps - Menik Farm in northern Sri Lanka - is to close amid concerns about the future of its inhabitants.
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GermanyGermany bans its biggest neo-Nazi association, the HNG, which supports far-right prisoners in German jails and their families.
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United KingdomThe Bank of England moves closer to re-starting quantitative easing because the UK economy is deteriorating, minutes show.
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United StatesDefence lawyers attempt last-minute appeals for Troy Davis, a US death row inmate set to be executed for a crime he maintains he did not commit.
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AfghanistanAfghans gather in Kabul to mourn High Peace Council chief Burhanuddin Rabbani and protest at his killing by a suicide bomber.
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BotswanaAbout a thousand Brazilians take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the wake of government corruption scandals.
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Chile, United StatesThe day Chile's assassins struck in the US capital
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United KingdomBritain faces a "long, hard road" to economic recovery, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warns in his big speech to the Lib Dem conference.
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South Africa, United Kingdom, United StatesFormer gold miners in South Africa are suing industry giant Anglo American in the London High Court for allegedly damaging their health.
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OmanA court in Oman sentences two editors to jail and suspends their newspaper after finding them guilty of insulting the justice minister.
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GermanyThe German fashion firm Hugo Boss apologises for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazi regime with uniforms.
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Burkina FasoScientists are to expand a clinical trial of a new malaria vaccine after promising results in a preliminary study in Burkina Faso.
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United StatesA spaceport where spacecraft carrying tourists will be assembled and tested is unveiled in the Mojave desert in the US.
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ItalyBBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, is suing an Italian TV network owned by Silvio Berlusconi over claims it copied Strictly Come Dancing.
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SyriaSyrian forces have killed at least five people near Homs, in the latest assault on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, activists say.
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TurkeyA local town council in central Turkey builds a morgue with a warning system in case dead bodies come back to life.
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United KingdomLiverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Everton, Southampton and Cardiff reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup, while in the Scottish Communities League Cup Rangers crash to Falkirk.
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Kenya, United KingdomA second man has appeared in a Kenyan court over the murder of a British tourist and abduction of his wife.
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FranceFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested the Palestinians should be given observer status at the UN rather than the full membership they are set to request.
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United Kingdom, BotswanaBrazilian rescuers have found a British couple whose vehicle crashed into a ravine in the Amazon jungle.
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United StatesLegendary US rock band REM has announced they are splitting up after 31 years and a string of hugely successful albums.
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Taiwan, United States, ChinaThe US confirms it plans to upgrade Taiwan's ageing fleet of F-16 fighters planes, a regular source of tensions with China.
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ThailandThai authorities are using vessels' propellers to push out flood water in the capital.
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Iran, United StatesTwo US men given an eight-year jail term by Iran for spying have been released and emotionally reunited with their loved ones.
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United StatesThe Federal Reserve announces its long-awaited $400bn Operation Twist scheme to help stimulate the flagging US economy.
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FranceAll Blacks captain Richie McCaw will win his 100th cap while Dan Carte also returns to the side to France in Auckland on Saturday.
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United StatesTrusted weapon to confront Horn of Africa terrorism and piracy
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GreeceThe Greek government announces tougher austerity measures in a move to persuade international lenders to give it more bailout money.
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United StatesBarack Obama tells the UN General Assembly a Palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with Israel, as thousands rally across the West Bank in favour of the statehood bid.
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MexicoMexican prosecutors drop terrorism charges against two people accused of using Twitter and Facebook to spread false rumours about gang violence.
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United StatesWill the US Federal Reserve hit the right note?
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SwitzerlandThe Landquart paper mill in Switzerland makes the paper for Swiss francs and euros as well as bank notes for many other countries. Production manager Marco Zeithen gave the BBC a tour.
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SwitzerlandBanknotes are a Swiss paper mill's business
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Iran, United StatesA pair of Americans convicted as spies and jailed in Iran for two years are released and emotionally reunited with their loved ones.
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United StatesA commercial telecommunications satellite hosts a US Air Force experimental missile-detection sensor in what is set to become a major trend this decade.
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ChinaCampaigns in China aim to stop trade in shark fin soup
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