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Researchers in Germany discovered a previously unknown copy of a rare 16th century map credited with being the first to name America.
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How things went horribly wrong for an Indian spy
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The impact of building a dam on Laos' Mekong river
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It's England vs Germany as football chiefs prepare to vote
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Is it time the US ditched the penny?
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How a hospital in Ecuador blends folk and modern treatments
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How many Russian drug-crime prisoners are innocent?
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Indonesia and Australia have pledged increased co-operation on people smuggling, following the sinking of two asylum-seeker boats last month.
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Japanese electronics maker Toshiba gets $87m (£55m) fine for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels in the US.
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Some 1.26m storm-struck households in the eastern US are without electricity for a fourth day amid high temperatures and 24 heat-related deaths.
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Japan's All Nippon Airways says it plans to raise as much as $2.6bn (£1.6bn) by selling new shares to fund its expansion plans.
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Pakistan agrees to reopen supply routes to Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, after the US apologises for killing 24 of its soldiers in an air strike.
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A home HIV test is expected to go on sale in the US within months, after winning regulator approval.
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Sales of Japanese carmakers Toyota and Honda surge in the US in June as they continue to recover from last year's quake and tsunami.
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Calls for compromise after disputed presidential election
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Senior Indian and Pakistani diplomats are holding talks in Delhi to bolster a fragile peace process.
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The runner-up in Mexico's presidential vote, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, demands a recount after coming second to Enrique Pena Nieto.
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Israel's Border Police force launches an investigation after a video emerges showing one of its officers kicking a nine-year-old Palestinian boy.
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Australian vessels go to the aid of a boat in distress off Indonesia, a day after the two countries pledged better co-operation on people-smuggling.
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Summer camp is often associated with school children going away for fun and activities, but an organisation in the Czech Republic has begun offering the country's first of its kind for the over 65s.
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider claim the discovery of a particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson.
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South African women fight to decriminalise prostitution
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Japan's biggest supermarket operator, Aeon, says profits more than doubled to 13.1bn yen ($164m; £104m) in the three months to the end of May.
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Plans to build a copper alloy plant in Shifang city, Sichuan province, are scrapped following violent protests by residents, a Chinese official says.
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Peru's government declares a local state of emergency after protests against a gold mining project leave at least three people dead.
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Luiz Pérez one of the founders of the latin group Los Lobos on how they broke through in America.
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England rise two places to fourth in the Fifa world rankings despite their quarter-final exit from Euro 2012.
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An individual in Afghan army uniform opens fire on Nato soldiers in eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, wounding five.
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Two chimpanzees which attacked a US student in South Africa will not be put down because they were defending their territory, an investigator says.
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Two founders of a restaurant chain have been asked to carry out a review of school food in England.
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Muslim leaders in Kenya agree to form self-defence groups to protect churches following a deadly attack on Christian worshippers.
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Cuba's Raul Castro is in China for a four-day visit, his first since taking over the leadership from his brother, Fidel, in 2008.
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David Millar is named in Team GB's five-man Olympic road cycling team which also includes Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins.
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Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela, is appointed ambassador to Argentina, the South American nation has said.
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French President Francois Hollande announces plans to raise taxes on business and wealthiest households by 7.2bn euros.
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At least eight people have been killed in a car bombing in central Iraq, officials say, a day after a series of attacks left 40 people dead.
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Police in Ukraine's capital Kiev fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters angry over a new language law that boosts the status of Russian.
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Danny Boyle, artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, apologises to volunteers over "spoilers" appearing in the press.
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Bob Diamond is due to be grilled by MPs, a day after the Bank of England and Whitehall officials were implicated in the inter-bank interest rate-fixing scandal.
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Daniel Sturridge is being treated for viral meningitis but is "optimistic" about playing for Team GB at London 2012.
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Bangladesh should stop "unfair" mass trials of border guards charged with mutiny over the 2009 killings of 74 people, Human Rights Watch has said.
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Burmese authorities confirm during the new parliamentary session that Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo, known as a hardliner, has resigned.
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The iPhone maker pays a $95.6m (£61.1m) bond bringing into effect a US sales ban of one of Samsung's leading smartphones.
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Paula Radcliffe says an injury scare has left her in "panic", but she is confident of being fit for the London Olympics.
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The Afghan government has made arrests after a wave of suspected poisoning at girls schools
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Ten out of 12 chairmen vote to reject the application from Rangers newco to join the Scottish Premier League.
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The bodies of the crew members of a Turkish jet shot down by Syria last month are found.
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The US singer admits his first love was a man on microblogging site Tumblr, saying he wants to "address rumours" about his sexuality.
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Oscar Pistorius could be the first amputee runner at the Olympics after being picked by South Africa for the 400m.
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Rain delays the start of the third one-dayer between England and Australia at Edgbaston, with a third inspection at 16:00 BST.
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Italy's budget deficit widened in the first three months of the year, official figures show.
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Five climbers who died falling from a Swiss mountain were German, and two were teenagers, police confirm.
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Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato is one of 33 current and former officials at Spanish lender Bankia who will become the focus of a fraud inquiry.
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Eric Sykes, one of Britain's best-loved TV comedy actors and writers, has died at the age of 89 after a short illness, his manager says.
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The whiff of corruption still dogs French politics
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An angry mob has taken a man accused of blasphemy from a police station and burnt him to death in Pakistan's Punjab province, police say.
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Romania's President Traian Basescu faces a referendum on his impeachment after the governing coalition called for him to be suspended.
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Afghan schoolgirls are falling sick, but is it sabotage or hysteria?
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Three well-known Kenyan musicians are charged with inciting ethnic violence through their songs by a commission set up in the wake of deadly post-poll violence.
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Mark Cavendish is denied his second stage win of the Tour de France when he falls in a crash late during the fourth stage.
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The theft of peaches in China sets scientists' work back at least a year, according to a peach-growing team.
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A High Court judge rules against Apple's claim that the Taiwanese firm infringed four of its patents, including its swipe-to-unlock feature.
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A gunman and four hostages have died after a siege in the German city of Karlsruhe, according to police.
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Kenya cancels plans to import crude oil from Iran following threats of sanctions, an official at the Kenyan energy ministry says.
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Syrian opposition groups agree on a general plan for the way forward in the country at a meeting in Cairo that exposes their deep divisions.
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A man shot dead four people including his partner before killing himself in a siege in the German city of Karlsruhe, police say.
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Britain's Andy Murray overcomes David Ferrer in four sets to seal a Wimbledon semi-final against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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South Korea proposes resuming whaling as part scientific research programmes similar to Japan's, in a move widely criticised at the IWC.
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Mexico's national election authority says they will recount 54.5% of the votes cast in Sunday's presidential election after discovering "inconsistencies" in some of the ballots.
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Police in Montreal confirm a human head found in a park on Sunday is that of a Chinese student allegedly killed by a former porn actor.
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An elite Brazilian police unit is sent deep into the Amazon jungle to restore order after members of an indigenous group burned down a police station.
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Nearly one million Americans mark 4 July without power as utility firms scramble to restore service five days after severe storms in the east.
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Britain's Andy Murray targets a first Wimbledon final as he prepares to face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Friday's semi-final.
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A lifeguard who left his section of a Florida beach to help rescue a man from drowning is given the sack for breaking company rules.
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As the United States celebrates July 4, Americans are struggling to keep cool with extremely hot temperatures gripping parts of the country.
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Former chief executive of France Telecom Didier Lombard is placed under formal investigation over a spate of suicides among staff at the company.
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Why does Russia lock up so many businessmen?
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A business journalist with rockstar status in get-rich-quick China
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