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First post-Gaddafi win for Libya's national football team
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Serena Williams lives up to her billing as US Open favourite with victory over Victoria Azarenka to reach the last 16.
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All 21 people on board a Chilean air force plane must have died instantly when it crashed on Friday in the Pacific, the defence minister says.
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US and UK spy agencies built close ties with the Gaddafi regime from 2002 and the CIA co-operated on secret renditions, papers found in Tripoli suggest.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn has left the United States almost two weeks after a New York court dismissed charges of sexual assault against him.
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The Libyan football team has won an African Cup of Nations qualifying game, its first major fixture since anti-government forces seized Tripoli.
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World number one Novak Djokovic remains on track for a first US Open title after seeing off Nikolay Davydenko to reach the last 16.
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A flight carrying 90 tonnes of US aid has arrived in North Korea, which has been struggling to cope with flood damage after several heavy storms.
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Rescuers in Chile have recovered four bodies from the ocean following the plane crash on Friday in which 21 people are thought to have died.
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The rising cost of living has brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets to protest in cities across Israel.
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An emperor penguin known as Happy Feet is released into the ocean south of New Zealand after being found washed up on a beach in June.
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Fabio Capello warns Frank Lampard and England's senior players they are not guaranteed a place in his side.
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Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives back in France from the US, after sex assault charges against him were dropped.
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Fighting in two Sudanese states has forced thousands from their homes along the border with South Sudan
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Legal advisers to Australia's government warn its plans for the off-shore processing of asylum-seekers may be illegal.
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Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr has begun supplying energy to the country's national grid, state news reports.
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Mo Farah wins gold for Britain in the 5,000m, Phillips Idowu takes silver in the men's triple jump, South African Caster Semenya fails to defend her 800m crown, and Jamaica win the men's 4x100m relay in world record time.
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Senior health officials discussed handing the management of up to 20 NHS hospitals in England to overseas companies, emails released by the government indicate.
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Tropical storm warnings are in effect from Texas to Mississippi as a weather system threatens flash floods across a swathe of the US coast.
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Eritrea, one of the most secretive countries, denies a food crisis, but evidence suggests severe hunger and malnutrition as drought intensifies
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Britain's Mo Farah wins the 5,000m at the World Championships, while Phillips Idowu takes silver in the triple jump.
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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has arrived back in France from the US, where he was greeted by crowds of press waiting at Charles de Gaulle airport.
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Great Britain's men's lightweight double and men's four storm to gold to top the medal table at the World Rowing Championships in Slovenia.
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Darren Bent and Micah Richards are ruled out of England's Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales on Tuesday through injury.
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The frontrunner for leader of the Scottish Conservatives says he will create a new centre-right party if he wins the leadership election.
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London and Doha will go head to head for the right to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships after Barcelona withdrew its bid.
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Forces loyal to Libya's interim government close in on one of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's few remaining strongholds - the desert town of Bani Walid.
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Six Syrian soldiers and three civilians die as gunmen ambush a bus in central Syria, state media reports, while the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protests continues.
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At least 19 people are killed and more than 50 are missing after powerful Typhoon Talas brings high winds and heavy rain to western Japan.
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Iranian police arrest about 60 protesters calling for the government to save a shrinking saltwater lake in the north-west of the country.
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Britain's Andy Murray takes on 25th seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain for a place in the last 16 of the US Open.
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Former Chancellor Alistair Darling felt Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King did not fully grasp the UK's financial crisis, the MP writes in his memoirs.
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Injecting modified bacteria - related to those which cause tuberculosis - has the potential to protect against the lung disease, say US scientists.
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Libyan interim government forces surrounding the Gaddafi-held desert town of Bani Walid say talks loyalists there have failed.
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Defending US Open champion Rafael Nadal seals his place in the fourth round by defeating Argentine David Nalbandian in straight sets.
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French question putting ailing ex-president on trial
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Three historic monuments are attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome, as officials struggle to protect the city's ancient treasures.
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Chancellor George Osborne defends government plans to change the planning system in England, saying they are "key to our economic recovery".
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Sudan says it no longer recognises the existence of major opposition party SPLM-North, following fighting in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile.
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The commander of anti-government forces in Tripoli has told the BBC he wants an apology from Britain and America for the way he was transferred to a prison in Libya in 2004.
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In the chaos of Tripoli, style is still crucial
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Are things beginning to change in Burma?
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