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BrazilA rare giant armadillo is caught on a camera trap by researchers in the wetlands of central Brazil.
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BotswanaBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff demands a greater role for emerging nations in international institutions, in a landmark address at the UN.
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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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New ZealandNew Zealand's economy slows to almost a standstill in the second quarter, sending the currency sliding.
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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 denies.
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United KingdomMike Tindall returns to the England team in one of seven changes for Saturday's Rugby World Cup Pool B match against Romania.
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United KingdomA disease that is killing greenfinches and chaffinches in the UK has spread to Europe, scientists say.
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IndiaA major fire at a textile factory in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) kills at least four people, police say.
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GermanyPope Benedict begins his first official visit to Germany, the country of his birth. He has visited the country before but this is the first time the visit is being seen as official.
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United StatesBarack Obama tells the Palestinian president he will veto a bid for UN membership, but Mahmoud Abbas says he will not drop the plans.
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PeruA free school lunch apparently contaminated with rat poison kills three Peruvian children and leaves dozens more seriously ill.
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United StatesUS shares fall after the Federal Reserve announces its $400bn scheme - dubbed Operation Twist - to help stimulate the US economy.
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JapanThe powerful typhoon that hit Japan on Wednesday makes its way across the country, bringing floods, damage and deaths.
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ChinaThere are calls in China for people to stop eating shark fin soup, which is endangering some shark species.
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United StatesA document which reveals The Beatles refused to play in front of segregated audiences in the US sells for $23,000 (£14,875).
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ItalyFilm star Richard Gere is to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Rome Film Festival, organisers have announced.
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EthiopiaA family's battle against ignorance about autism in Ethiopia
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BangladeshThousands of police officers are deployed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka to maintain calm during a dawn-to-dusk general strike called by the opposition.
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IsraelIsraeli author says Palestine is seen as an existential threat
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United KingdomWikileaks founder Julian Assange criticises a UK publisher for releasing drafts of his autobiography without his approval.
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GermanyPope Benedict's first official visit to Germany, the country of his birth, has begun.
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United StatesMembers of legendary US rock band REM have announced they are splitting up after 31 years and a string of hugely successful albums.
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IsraelIsrael's President Shimon Peres tells the BBC that peace with the Palestinians is possible.
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NamibiaSouth Africa overwhelm Pool D rivals Namibia at the World Cup
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United KingdomPaying off the "NHS mortgage" is putting so much pressure on the system in England that the future of some hospitals is at risk, ministers say.
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IndiaIndia's Supreme Court says the final vault at a temple in Kerala state should not be opened until treasure already recovered is fully documented.
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PakistanPakistan is struggling to reach those worst affected by floods, weeks after heavy monsoon rains devastated swathes of southern Sindh province, officials say.
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LibyaCan the essence of war be captured on film?
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PeruThree children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say.
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IrelandThe Irish Republic's economy grows for a second successive quarter, posting a 1.6% rise in GDP.
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LibyaLibya's interim leadership says it has captured key areas in the south but its forces have paused advances on two pro-Gaddafi strongholds.
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BurmaAn influential think-tank urges Western nations to acknowledge and support what it calls the major changes taking place in Burma.
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Georgia, United StatesTroy Davis is executed in Georgia for shooting a policeman in 1989, after a final appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court.
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LibyaLibyans in Tripoli relish their new found freedom and are optimistic about their future.
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IndiaLocal anger at Indian response to Sikkim quake
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UgandaA Ugandan author accuses police of assaulting and threatening to kill him after detaining him for writing a book about President Yoweri Museveni.
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FranceTwo French Muslim women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a new law banning it in France have been issued fines by a court.
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Pakistan, United StatesA US Senate committee votes to make aid to Pakistan conditional on action against groups such as the Haqqani network, as US disquiet grows at Pakistan's willingness to take on militants on its soil.
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IndiaFormer Indian cricketer Mansur "Tiger" Ali Khan Pataudi, the youngest ever captain of the national team, dies in the capital Delhi aged 70.
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AfghanistanOfficials at the very highest levels were deceived by the suicide bomber who killed Afghanistan's peace talks chief, President Hamid Karzai says.
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Taiwan, United States, ChinaChina hits out at a US deal to upgrade Taiwan's ageing fleet of US-built F-16 fighter planes, warning it could harm bilateral co-operation.
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United KingdomDoctors at Moorfields Eye hospital in London have been given the go-ahead to carry out Europe's first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells.
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United StatesThe US space agency (Nasa) says that its out-of-control climate satellite is expected to crash to Earth sometime on Friday evening (GMT).
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United KingdomUntransmitted video footage from August's riots in London has been handed to police by the BBC, ITN and Sky News after Scotland Yard obtained court orders against the media organisations.
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United KingdomNottinghamshire's Trent Bridge will host Ashes Tests in 2013 and 2015 after the England and Wales Cricket Board announces international venues for the next five years.
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Switzerland, United KingdomTrader Kweku Adoboli, who is accused of a £1.5bn fraud at Swiss bank UBS, tells a London court he is "sorry beyond words" as he is remanded in custody until 20 October.
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FranceFirst women fined under French ban speak out
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United StatesPalestinian writer argues the peace process needs reforming
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United KingdomThe UK has joined five other G20 countries in calling for coordinated action from the world's leading nations stimulate economic growth.
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YemenRenewed explosions and gunfire shake the Yemeni capital Sanaa as government troops battle forces opposing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, United StatesThe most senior US military officer accuses Pakistan's spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in last week's Kabul US embassy attack.
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FranceNicolas Bazire, the best man at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wedding, is charged with misuse of public funds over a 1990s election campaign.
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FranceTwo Muslim women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a law banning it in France have been fined by a court.
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PakistanWorld still to come to rescue of Pakistan flood victims
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United StatesNearly one million young adults in the US have gained health insurance in the year since the passage of President Obama's healthcare law, two surveys say.
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GermanyBenedict XVI, the Catholic Church's German leader, addresses parliament during his first official visit to his home country as Pope.
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PakistanThe chewing tobacco mixture naswar remains popular in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, despite gum cancer warnings.
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ZambiaRiots break out in two towns in Zambia's northern mining region where opposition supporters are impatient for the results of Tuesday's polls.
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UgandaA court in Uganda orders the release of one of the commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army, ending the country's first war crimes trial.
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RwandaSouth Africa's authorities have foiled another assassination attempt on a Rwandan ex-army chief, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, the BBC learns.
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IsraelWhy Obama has turned towards Israel
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Maldives, United KingdomThe Maldives - at risk from rising sea levels - complains of a spoof Daily Telegraph blog post saying it will be omitted from the Times World Atlas.
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TunisiaLibya's former Prime Minister, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, has been arrested in Tunisia and sentenced to six months in jail, officials say.
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Azerbaijan, United KingdomA BBC Newsnight investigation uncovers evidence of secret payments from an Azerbaijani to boxing organisers, which whistleblowers allege is part of a deal to secure two gold medals at London 2012.
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Niger, LibyaForces loyal to Libya's new government take control of the strategic southern town of Sabha, which straddles the main road south to Niger.
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GreeceA 24-hour public transport strike hits Greece and a mass protest takes place in Athens as anger mounts over a new raft of tough austerity measures.
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United StatesUS shares dive as warnings from the IMF and others that the global economy is in the "danger zone" spark panic among investors.
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United KingdomShare prices in London and around the world have suffered dramatic falls as markets reacted to a series of grim warnings about the state of the global economy.
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IranIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery attack on Western nations in a speech to the UN General Assembly prompts a mass walkout by diplomats.
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Pakistan, United StatesUS patience is wearing thin with its ally Pakistan
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ChileTens of thousands of Chilean students and teachers march in Santiago in the latest mass demonstration to demand reform to the public education system.
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