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Campaigners and human rights groups welcome a UN-backed special court's guilty verdict against the former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
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Colombia's army engineers battle to repair defences
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A bill allowing access to private web data on suspicion of a cyber threat passes the US House of Representatives, despite a White House veto threat.
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Pakistan has deported the wives and children of Osama Bin laden.
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West African leaders agree to send troops to Mali and Guinea-Bissau to monitor transitions to civilian rule following their coups.
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The US Secret Service is looking into allegations its employees paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador ahead of a presidential visit.
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Lady Gaga has had her Seoul concert re-rated as only suitable for over 18s, by South Korea's Media Rating Board.
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The United States agrees to move thousands of Marines based in Okinawa out of Japan to Hawaii, Guam and other locations in Asia.
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Greece should not have joined the euro, a former head of the Bundesbank who was closely involved in eurozone policymaking tells the BBC.
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Ghana is the first country in Africa to protect children against two of the deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations.
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A man wanted by police in Italy on suspicion of murdering a police officer in 1982 is arrested after being seen in a post office queue in London.
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The Bank of Japan increases its stimulus programme for the second time in just over two months in a bid boost economic growth.
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The BBC's Mukul Devichand visits the city of Chongqing to find out what caused the downfall of the senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai.
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US coffee giant Starbucks reports a sharp rise in profits despite weak sales in Europe.
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China decides "in principle" to build a supply dock on one of the islands it disputes with Vietnam in the South China Sea.
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A movie about Cuban boat people, whose stars have gone missing, wins three prizes at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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German car and truck maker Daimler reports a sharp rise in profits thanks in part to record sales at its Mercedes-Benz division.
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A retired UK businessman extradited to the US on charges of plotting to sell weapons parts to Iran says he will vigorously contest the claim.
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The two candidates in France's presidential run-off, Socialist Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy have appeared on TV, 10 days before the vote.
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French oil firm Total reports a fall in profits due in part to weak demand and high raw material costs at its European petrochemicals business.
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The family of an Australian girl left severely brain damaged after eating a KFC chicken meal is awarded $8.3m (£5.1m) in damages.
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One of China's best known dissidents, Chen Guangcheng, escapes house arrest and releases a video addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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An Australian ex-firefighter is jailed for 17 years and nine months for starting what became known as a "Black Saturday" blaze that killed 10 in 2009.
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A judge in the Netherlands upholds a new ban on foreign tourists entering Dutch cannabis cafes, in a bid to cut cross-border crime.
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Spanish unemployment hits a new record high of 5.64 million, official figures show, hours after the country's debt rating was downgraded.
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More than half of Europe's development aid budget is going to "relatively rich" countries like Turkey and Serbia, MPs warn.
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Prominent dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest in China and posts a video on the internet appealing directly to Premier Wen Jiabao
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Two valuable paintings in the offices of the Ukrainian government have been mysteriously swapped for replicas, it is claimed.
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An alcohol-ravaged Native American tribe fights back
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US carmaker Ford reports lower quarterly profits following weak sales in Europe and higher tax charges.
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Experts cast doubt on North Korea's latest weapons display
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Four explosions rock the city of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine, injuring at least 27 people.
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India and Russia boycott a major international trade fair in Zimbabwe in protest against the country's policy of taking control of foreign companies.
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Malawi's new leader Joyce Banda sacks her foreign minister, Peter Mutharika, the brother of the late president who had been anointed as his successor.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani challenges the opposition to unseat him after being found guilty of contempt of court.
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Three men arrested in Copenhagen are suspected of plotting to carry out an "act of terror", intelligence officials say.
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At least 27 people have been injured by four explosions in the city of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine, officials say.
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US pop star Lady Gaga kicks off her Born This Way Ball tour with a concert in Seoul that fans under the age of 18 had been forbidden to attend.
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Activists in China have saved more than 500 dogs from being killed for food.
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A man is arrested after buildings around London's Tottenham Court Road were evacuated amid reports of a bomb threat.
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Kurt Masur, the former principal conductor of the London Philharmonic, is recovering in hospital after falling off the stage during a concert in Paris.
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Villagers in Santiago Xalitzintla are trying to continue with their lives despite ash and smoke spewing from the nearby Popocatepetl volcano.
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Australia wrap up a 75-run victory over West Indies on day five of the third and final Test in Dominica to win the series 2-0.
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The nephew of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is reported to have agreed to stand down as head of the Presidential Guard.
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Syrian state TV says a suicide bomber has struck in the capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others.
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Pictures are published apparently showing bruises on former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who claims to have been beaten in prison.
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A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards serving in Afghanistan dies from a gunshot wound, the Ministry of Defence says.
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A court in India finds Bangaru Laxman, former chief of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, guilty in a bribery case.
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A favourite haunt of writer Ernest Hemingway, Cuban restaurant La Bodeguita del Medio, is celebrating its 70th birthday.
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Romania's government is unseated in a no-confidence vote, just two months after taking office.
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US economic growth slowed to an annualised pace of 2.2% in the first quarter of the year, from 3% in the final three months of last year.
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One of China's best-known dissidents, Chen Guangcheng, escapes house arrest and releases a video addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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The Eritrean government denies persistent rumours that President Isaias Afewerki is dead, telling the BBC he is in 'robust health'.
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At least 27 people, nine of them children, have been injured by four explosions within an hour in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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China dissident Chen Guangcheng has fled to the US embassy in Beijing after a dramatic escape from house arrest, says fellow activist Hu Jia.
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Troops in Guinea-Bissau free former PM Carlos Gomes Junior and interim President Raimundo Pereira, seized in a coup earlier this month.
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The authorities in Colombia say left-wing Farc rebels have killed eight people including a baby in two separate attacks in the south of the country.
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Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan says opponents planned his downfall from a sex scandal to stop his French presidential bid, days before the run-off.
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A US jury convicts a Somali man of piracy for serving as a hostage negotiator in the hijacking of a US yacht where all four on board were killed.
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How slow-paced Danish drama became a global hit
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