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BurmaHow do Burmese punk bands get around censors?
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United StatesAuthorities are looking for a suspect after two members of the US Coast Guard in Alaska were found dead in what appears to be a double murder.
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NorwayDid commandos stuck in traffic cost lives in Norway massacre?
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North KoreaNorth Korea confirms its controversial rocket launch failed, as observers report it broke up and crashed into the sea shortly after blast-off.
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ChinaChina reports weaker-than-expected growth figures for the first three months of the year, hit by a slowdown in foreign sales.
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India, United StatesIndia takes the US to the World Trade Organization over import duties levied by Washington on Indian steel products.
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NorwayOn Monday the trial begins in Norway of Anders Breivik, the man who admits to killing 77 people in a series of attacks in the country last summer.
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United StatesA policeman has been shot dead and four others injured in a gun battle in the US.
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United KingdomPeter Crouch is worthy of another chance as an England player, according to his Stoke team-mate Thomas Sorensen.
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SpainAn elderly Spanish nun has become the first person to appear in court in connection with the alleged theft of newborn babies, mostly during the Franco era.
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GermanyThree people are killed and another 13 injured as a German regional train collides with a works engine near Offenbach.
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Bermuda, ChinaMercedes driver Michael Schumacher beats McLaren's Lewis Hamilton to set the fastest time in practice at the Chinese Grand Prix.
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IndiaIs the Indian Premier League suffering from fan fatigue?
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United StatesLeonard Cohen's former manager is found guilty of harassing the singer by a court in Los Angeles.
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Guinea-Bissau, 
GuineaGuinea-Bissau soldiers stage what appears to be an attempted coup after gunfire is heard at the home of the main presidential challenger, whose whereabouts are unknown.
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North KoreaA giant statue of Kim Jong Il has been unveiled in front of a crowd of thousands in Pyonyang.
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France, 
JapanFrance's President Nicolas Sarkozy concedes he did not visit Fukushima on a visit to Japan, correcting an earlier claim.
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United KingdomSome 750 cinemas across the UK will be running a short film to challenge attitudes to facial disfigurement.
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MongoliaMongolia's former president, Nambar Enkhbayar, is detained in a police raid linked to a corruption investigation, reports say.
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JapanA Japanese woman who murdered her three former lovers in 2009 is sentenced to death.
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BahrainThe Bahrain Grand Prix is to go ahead on 22 April as planned, the motorsport's governing body the FIA says.
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IranWill Iran's latest nuclear talks get anywhere?
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ItalyBBC World's David Eades describes the Sicilian volcano's third eruption in a month. Italian authorities are yet to issue any warning of danger to houses and people in the area.
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United StatesA man shoots dead a police chief days from retirement and injures four other officers in a drugs raid at a house in a small New Hampshire town.
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DenmarkFour men deny planning to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as they go on trial in Denmark.
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United KingdomPreview followed by live coverage of Saturday's semi-final between Aberdeen and Hibernian in the Scottish Cup.
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North KoreaWill the hawks or doves take wing in North Korea?
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SyriaThe UN hopes to send observers to Syria within the next few days to monitor a fragile ceasefire, as Syrians stage protests after Friday prayers.
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South Korea, North KoreaNorth Korea confirms its controversial rocket launch failed, as observers report it broke up and crashed into the sea shortly after blast-off.
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SyriaThere is almost universal scepticism in the press in the Middle East as well as further afield about the fragile UN-Arab League-brokered ceasefire in Syria.
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United StatesUS consumer prices edged higher in March due mainly to increases in the cost of fuel, figures show.
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JapanTwo of Japan's nuclear reactors are declared safe to be restarted, to combat threatened power shortages, the government says.
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India, United StatesIndia reacts angrily to the detention of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan by US authorities for 90 minutes at White Plains airport.
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PortugalThe Portuguese parliament ratifies a key pact on EU budget discipline, the first country in the EU to do so.
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CanadaAir Canada cancels dozens of flights, blaming "illegal activity" by pilots calling in sick, in an apparent protest over a bitter labour row.
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BahrainThe people in charge of Formula 1 say the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead as planned next week, despite concerns over staging the race whilst there is continuing political unrest.
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ItalyTax police in Italy say EU funds to develop tourism were instead spent on villas and lavish weddings.
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EgyptTens of thousands protest in Cairo against the presidential bid of Omar Suleiman, the former spy chief of Hosni Mubarak.
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MacedoniaFive men have been shot dead at a lake near Macedonia's capital Skopje, police say.
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Burma, United KingdomDavid Cameron says economic sanctions against Burma should be suspended in recognition of the changes taking place in the country.
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SyriaThe war photographer Paul Conroy who was severely injured in Syria has warned that material from citizen journalists and activists involved directly in the conflict cannot be relied upon
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United StatesA New Jersey mayor, Cory Booker, plays down suggestions he is a hero after he rushed into a burning house to save a woman.
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SomaliaPoor rainfall forecast for Somalia threatens its recovery from last year's devastating famine, aid agencies say.
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Pakistan, IndiaTrade between India and Pakistan is expected to rise substantially with the opening of a new checkpost at the Wagah border crossing, amid a series of peace moves.
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MexicoA video which shows children acting like kidnappers, corrupt police officers and drug traffickers is causing controversy in Mexico.
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United KingdomA computer hacker who broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider has been jailed for two years and eight months.
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BahrainBahrain Grand Prix ruling glosses over political unrest
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North KoreaThe UN Security Council deplores the launch by North Korea of a rocket and satellite which broke up shortly after take-off.
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SudanSudan is arming civilians in South Kordofan as fighting against rebels in the state that borders South Sudan intensifies, the BBC finds.
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RussiaA documentary looks at a town which has renamed itself after Yuri Gagarin, Russia's most famous spaceman.
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North KoreaNorth Koreans focused on celebration as rocket fails
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama releases his tax return for 2011, as he seeks to make taxation a key election issue with Republican foes.
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United StatesAs Newsnight's Paul Mason reports, in the US the issue of abortion has become charged in a way almost unimaginable in Europe.
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SudanThe Sudanese government says its forces are advancing towards the disputed border oil town of Heglig, held by South Sudan.
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United States, SpainShares fall in the US and Europe, led by banks, as worries about the Spanish economy's borrowing needs re-emerge in financial markets.
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United StatesAnthony Mancinelli is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest working barber in the world.
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United StatesJP Morgan, the first major US bank to announce its results, reports a rebound in revenues in the first three months of 2012.
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ColombiaColombia's Jose Antonio Ocampo pulls out of the race to be the next World Bank president, calling the selection process a "political exercise".
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Guinea-Bissau, GuineaThere is confusion over the whereabouts of Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Junior, after soldiers launched an apparent coup.
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SyriaSeveral people have been shot dead during protests in Syria, activists say, as the UN considers deploying monitors to oversee a peace plan.
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United StatesAbortion debate looms large in US election campaign
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United StatesSummit shows changing US-Latin America ties
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NorwayOslo readies itself for Breivik court drama
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Austria, 
SloveniaA row breaks out between Slovenia and Austria over the name of a sausage - and it is a matter for the EU.
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Venezuela, 
CubaVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is going to Cuba on Saturday for more cancer treatment, casting doubt on a trip to the Americas summit.
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