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GermanyIs it a parent's right to choose circumcision for a baby?
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FranceWhy does the Tour de France leader wear yellow?
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KenyaMaking money from a Kenyan riding school
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IsraelArab talent show win casts spotlight on Israel's cultural divide
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Burma, 
United StatesUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet President Thein Sein at a business forum, after the easing of restrictions on US firms investing in Burma.
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ChinaChina police says a second investigation into the death of leading dissident Li Wangyang, found dead in June, shows he committed suicide.
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United KingdomMost people think the Olympic Games will mainly benefit London and not the rest of the country, a BBC poll has found.
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MexicoThe runner-up in Mexico's presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, files a legal challenge to the result of the 1 July vote.
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IndiaA village in India's Uttar Pradesh state bans love marriages amid a series of restrictions on women, reports say.
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Syria, 
Yemen, United StatesThe United States has suggested that what it calls the "Yemen scenario" could be the solution to stopping bloodshed in Syria.
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France, United KingdomTributes are paid to three Britons, including one of the UK's most respected climbers, killed in an avalanche near the French ski resort of Chamonix.
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United StatesLG Display is to pay $380m (£246m) to settle an LCD price-fixing case in the US, the most paid by any of the 10 companies that have settled.
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United KingdomThe M4 motorway between central London and Heathrow Airport reopens in both directions, after emergency repairs to fix a crack.
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United KingdomBlur are to play a live show for BBC radio, ahead of their comeback gigs in London's Hyde Park.
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United KingdomBarclays extends its sponsorship of the Premier League in England until 2016 in a three-year deal worth £40m a year from 2013.
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ThailandThailand's constitutional court is set to rule on whether politicians can draft a new constitution, in a controversial vote that could spark protests.
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AustraliaAustralia fast bowler Brett Lee retires from all forms of international cricket with 380 one-day wickets to his name.
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South AfricaAt least 19 people are killed after a train hits a truck carrying farm workers at a railway crossing in north-eastern South Africa, officials say.
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ThailandA court in Thailand rejects petitions against proposed constitutional changes by the ruling Pheu Thai party.
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United StatesAerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has announced he is quitting American Idol's judging panel to concentrate on his band.
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United KingdomCriminals could be dealt with in days or hours under government proposals for "swift and sure justice" and flexible court hours in England and Wales.
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ItalyCredit rating agency Moody's cuts Italy's standing and warns the country is likely to see a sharp rise in borrowing costs.
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SpainGermany plans to help Spain launch German-style youth apprenticeships, in an effort to tackle record unemployment.
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MadagascarA new assessment of Madagascar's lemurs shows they are far more threatened than previously thought.
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JordanJordan's Muslim Brotherhood has said its political party will boycott this year's early parliamentary polls because of a lack of electoral reforms.
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SyriaSome 200 people are reported killed in the central Syrian village of Tremseh, in what would be the bloodiest single incident in the unrest.
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United StatesThe big growth in oil extracted from shale rock will mean the US will not need to import any crude within two decades, the former boss of BP has said.
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IndiaAt least four people are arrested after a group of men indecently assaulted a teenage girl on a busy road in India's Assam state.
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RussiaRussian MPs adopt a controversial bill to force foreign-funded political NGOs to register as "foreign agents".
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United KingdomChancellor George Osborne defends the cross-party group of MPs chosen to investigate the banking scandal amid claims it will be a "whitewash".
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EthiopiaA prominent Ethiopian journalist and blogger is jailed for 18 years for violating Ethiopia's controversial anti-terrorism legislation.
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ChinaThe Association of Southest Asian Nations fails to reach an agreement on how to deal with China's claims on disputed territory in the South China Sea.
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ChinaChina, the second largest economy in the world, is experiencing its worst slowdown for 3 years. Growth in the second quarter of this year was 7.6 per cent --- down from 8.1 per cent in the previous 3 months.
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AfghanistanA prominent female Afghan politician and advocate of women's rights is killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
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ItalyMotoGP championship leader Jorge Lorenzo dominates both practice sessions for the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello.
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NigeriaDual engine failure caused a plane to crash in the Nigeria city of Lagos last month, killing more than 150 people, investigators say.
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United KingdomThe RAF will shoot down a plane as a "last resort" if the Olympics are threatened by an aircraft, the Games air security commander says.
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Equatorial Guinea, FranceA French judge issues an arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's leader on money-laundering charges, after he refuses to be interviewed by magistrates, reports say.
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GermanyGermany's leader backs Jewish and Muslim communities' rights to circumcision, after a court ruled it was illegal.
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Hong KongTwo billionaire property developers and a former senior official in Hong Kong face corruption charges in one of the territory's most high-profile cases.
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Sri LankaFormer Tamil Tiger snipers have been selected to represent Sri Lanka in shooting sports at national level, an official says.
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BrazilInmates in a prison in Brazil are being offered the chance of reduced sentences - in return for generating electricity by pedalling on exercise bicycles.
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FranceDavid Millar wins stage 12 of the Tour de France as fellow Briton Bradley Wiggins retains the race lead.
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Canada, United KingdomRescue crews resume work after a landslide tore through a remote town in British Columbia on Thursday, leaving four people missing.
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United KingdomRangers chief executive Charles Green says he will not challenge the vote to place his new club in Division Three.
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JapanThe Meteorological Agency has issued heavy rain and landslide warnings across large parts of southern Japan.
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United KingdomChelsea and England footballer John Terry is cleared of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand.
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United KingdomAn investigation has been launched after the BBC found sponsors' London Olympics tickets had been sold to the public for 20% more than their face value.
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United KingdomThe Kazakh Olympic team is hoping to boost its chances of success at London 2012 with horsemeat sausages, but could be blocked by import controls.
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United Kingdom, United StatesBank of England head Sir Mervyn King and then US bank official Timothy Geithner discussed concerns about Libor as early as 2008, documents show.
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United StatesAn autistic man from the US state of Colorado is recovering in hospital after surviving for three weeks in a remote Utah desert.
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CubaA ship carrying humanitarian aid from Miami to Cuba arrives in Havana for the first time in 50 years.
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United KingdomPerri Shakes-Drayton destroys the field at the London Grand Prix to emerge as a real Olympic medal contender in the 400m hurdles.
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SyriaKofi Annan decries "appalling" reports of mass killings in the Syrian village of Tremseh, but the army says no civilians died in the incident.
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France, United KingdomTwo friends from a North Yorkshire village are named as among the three Britons who died in Thursday's avalanche in the French Alps.
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NigeriaA suicide bomber kills five people at a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri and narrowly misses a prominent Muslim leader, officials say.
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United KingdomAlex Noren produces a second successive round of 66 to move into a share of the lead at the Scottish Open with Francesco Molinari.
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United StatesUS bank JPMorgan Chase raises its estimated losses in a recent trading error to $5.8bn, but still reports a big profit, sending shares higher.
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United KingdomThe Scottish FA will consider what, if any, punishments to impose on Rangers before granting membership to the new company.
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United StatesEx US president Bill Clinton calls on governments to convince voters of the need to tackle climate change and resource scarcity.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoThe International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo for allegedly carrying out war crimes.
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SyriaWorld leaders condemn a Syrian army attack on opposition fighters in the village of Tremseh which reportedly left up to 200 people dead.
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FranceBradley Wiggins will only be denied a Tour de France win by a crash or miraculous ride from a rival, says Sky coach Shane Sutton.
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South AfricaA train has hit a truck carrying farm workers at a railway crossing in South Africa, killing up to 26 people.
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United StatesUS Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney hits back on attacks about his record as CEO of Bain Capital in interviews for US broadcasters.
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LibyaLibyan expats living in the UAE say they went o use their experience to help re-build their country.
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