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United KingdomThe Palestinian Olympians looking forward to the London Games
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NigeriaWill militant attacks worsen Nigeria's religious tensions?
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United KingdomThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Scotland for a week of events to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
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JapanHundreds of protesters gather as Japan restarts the first nuclear reactor since the crisis at Fukushima last year.
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BrazilHave Spain's Euro heroes eclipsed the Brazil legends?
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JamaicaUsain Bolt is beaten by Yohan Blake in the 200m final at the Jamaican Olympic trials two days after finishing second in the 100m.
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SpainSpain have won the Euro 2012 football championship, much to the delight of thousands of supporters who had gathered in central Madrid to watch the game.
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JapanJapanese manufacturers are less pessimistic about business conditions, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) Tankan survey shows.
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AustraliaPrime Minister Julia Gillard works to rally support for Australia's carbon tax, a day after the law came into force.
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South AfricaIn an interview with the BBC, President Jacob Zuma has said the nationalisation of South Africa's mines has not been introduced as a new policy.
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United KingdomNine people are charged with violent disorder following a fatal stabbing at Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London.
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United StatesA new search is being launched off the coast of Hawaii to find out what happened to the US pilot Amelia Earhart, whose plane disappeared on 2 July 1937.
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ChinaChina's manufacturing activity grows at its slowest pace in seven months adding to fears about a slowdown in its economy.
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IndiaThe UN's cultural agency, Unesco, votes to add the Western Ghats of India to the list of World Heritage Sites.
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United KingdomOfficers on the front lines of last summer's riots in England were left woefully outnumbered and in fear of their lives, a study reveals.
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ChinaApple has agreed to pay $60m (£38m) to Chinese firm Proview to settle a dispute involving rights to the "iPad" name, a court in China says.
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SomaliaAl-Qaeda chief's recommended reading and advice on governing
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IndiaIndia is launching a $75m (£48m) scheme using computer models to understand the south-west monsoon and forecast the rains more accurately.
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United StatesAn expedition to find out what happened to celebrated US woman pilot Amelia Earhart sets out from Hawaii later, 75 years after her last flight.
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United StatesFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's debut feature film, about a talking teddy bear called Ted, opens top of the US box office, beating stripping Magic Mike.
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ItalyItaly's right-wing Northern League elects ex-Interior Minister Roberto Maroni as its new leader, replacing the scandal-hit Umberto Bossi.
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South KoreaSouth Korea has inaugurated a "mini capital" designed to act as a new government hub south of the main capital, Seoul.
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JapanIchiro Ozawa and his faction resign from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, amid a bitter row over the sales tax rise.
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United KingdomThe BBC unveils its London Olympics title sequence, which is based on a "Stadium UK" concept with a music track by Elbow.
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LibyaProtesters in Benghazi have ransacked the region's electoral authority headquarters in a protest against the proposed division of power.
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United KingdomFormer Defence Secretary Liam Fox recommends that the UK should leave the European Union unless there is a rebalancing of their relationship.
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SpainHistoric football win gives struggling Spain a lift
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UkraineVitali Klitschko's meeting with Manuel Charr could be the final fight of his career as he seeks election to the Ukrainian parliament.
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BermudaSebastian Vettel ranks Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton as the best F1 drivers of their generation.
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TanzaniaThe president of Tanzania dismisses reports that the government was behind the alleged kidnap and torture of the leader of a group of striking doctors.
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United KingdomChildren's bookshops are bucking a UK-wide decline, according to a new report by the Booksellers Association.
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United KingdomGalleries and museums across the UK are shutting down or limiting access to the public because of ongoing budget cuts, according to a survey.
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MexicoEnrique Pena Nieto is ahead in Mexico's election, first results show, signalling a return of the old ruling party, the PRI, to the presidency.
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GermanyThe head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, Heinz Fromm, resigns after a series of blunders in an investigation into a neo-Nazi cell.
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United StatesNearly three million people remain without power in the eastern US after storms that have been blamed for 17 deaths since Friday.
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PakistanThe bodies of nine Taliban fighters, killed after they attacked a Nato convoy in Afghanistan, are brought to the North Waziristan area of Pakistan for burial, sources say.
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MaliIslamist militants in Mali attack one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.
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NigeriaBoko Haram wants Islamic law imposed across Nigeria and is attempting to exploit existing divisions in the country.
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Kenya, SomaliaFour aid workers seized from a refugee camp near Kenya's Somali border are freed after a joint operation by Kenyan and Somali forces.
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GermanyTop seed Maria Sharapova and Kim Clijsters are both knocked out of Wimbledon in the fourth round.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomThree British soldiers have been killed by a policeman in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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FinlandFinland says it rejects part of the EU summit deal to use eurozone bailout funds more flexibly.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoThe okapi is only found in Democratic Republic of Congo and it is under threat.
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IndiaA gang which used a novel trick to make cash machines think no money had been taken is arrested in India.
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United StatesDell will buy the US software firm Quest for $2.4bn (£1.53bn) as it expands its software business to offset falling demand for personal computers.
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LibyaRival tribes in Libya clash before national polls
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Bahrain, United KingdomBritain has sent a team of forensic detectives to Bahrain to help investigate a huge find of advanced bomb-making materials last month.
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United StatesEuropean plane manufacturer Airbus has confirmed plans to build a $600m (£483m) factory in Alabama, marking its first facility on US soil
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United KingdomStuart Pearce says his decision to leave David Beckham out of his London 2012 squad was made for football reasons.
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United KingdomLast month was the wettest June in the UK since records began in 1910, provisional figures from the Met Office show.
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MexicoMexico's Enrique Pena Nieto thanks voters for giving his PRI party another chance at the polls but the second place candidate has not conceded victory.
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United StatesDrug giant GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history in a case concerning three drugs.
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FranceMark Cavendish powers to victory in second stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish in Tournai.
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AfghanistanAt least seven people are killed and many more wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.
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Canada, ChinaPolice in Montreal say a suspected human head found in a park may be from a Chinese student allegedly killed by a former porn actor.
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United StatesResearchers have moved a step closer to creating a synthetic liver, after a US team printed a 3D model of a network blood vessels could grow into.
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United StatesHints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US "atom smasher" have become even stronger after further analysis, scientists say.
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ChinaTwo men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China's restive Xinjiang region die, according to state media.
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IndiaIndian officials say floods and landslides in the north eastern state of Assam have killed at least 77 people.
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United StatesMichael Phelps will only be aiming for seven Olympic swimming gold medals at London 2012 after opting out of the 200m freestyle.
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LibyaFour staff members from the International Criminal Court held in Libya for four weeks over accusations of spying are released.
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SpainSpain's football team is greeted by tens of thousands on the streets of the capital Madrid after their triumph in the Euro 2012 tournament.
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ArubaAustralian minister Craig Emerson breaks into song during a live TV interview to get a point across about a proposed carbon tax
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Atlantic OceanA proposal to declare almost all of the southern Atlantic Ocean a whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting.
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SyriaUN human rights chief Navi Pillay says "further militarisation" of the crisis in Syria by other countries must be avoided "at all costs".
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United StatesA US court rules that Twitter must hand over tweets posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester facing trial for disorderly conduct.
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SpainThe Spanish national football team has toured Madrid in an open top bus to celebrate its victory in the Euro 2012 championship.
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IndiaIndian superstar on how talk show can change the world
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Angola, ChinaWhy no-one lives in Angola's Chinese-built 'ghost towns'
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LibyaFour staff members from the International Criminal Court held in Libya on accusations of spying fly out after four weeks' detention.
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