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Dense wing bones help a tiny South American bird to sing make its unique “wing violin musicâ€, say scientists.
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How one Polish village ignores its Jewish history
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Swedish court struggles with cartoon images of child porn
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Campaigning in Greece ends ahead of a crucial election on Sunday which could ultimately decide its future in the eurozone.
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At least 16 people die in eastern Paraguay as evictions of landless farmers turn violent, triggering senior resignations.
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Japan is to restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since plants were shut down after the last year's Fukushima crisis.
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US President Barack Obama has announced plans to end the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the US as children.
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Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since all the country's plants were closed following last year's Fukushima crisis.
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The head of the UN team of observers in Syria says that escalating violence is limiting the mission's ability to operate.
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Tiger Woods maintains his challenge to join fellow Americans Jim Furyk and David Toms in the halfway lead of the 112th US Open at the Olympic Club.
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Mexico has seen an explosion of violence in recent years as gangs fight over trafficking routes and territories.
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Manager Roy Hodgson says the impact of substitute Theo Walcott was "enormous" in his side's 3-2 victory over Sweden.
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Coach Laurent Blanc feared that the weather could have scuppered France's game plan in their 2-0 win over Ukraine.
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A British dental charity is about to start work in Rwanda, a country that has only 11 qualified dentists.
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Dan Carter's last-minute drop-goal gives New Zealand a narrow win over Ireland in the second Test in Christchurch.
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China sends its first woman into space as 33-year-old fighter pilot Liu Yang is one of three astronauts travelling to the orbiting Tiangong space lab.
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A car bomb near a marketplace in the north-western Pakistani town of Landi Kotal leaves at least 22 dead, officials say.
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Rupert Murdoch called Tony Blair urging him not to delay the invasion of Iraq, former Number 10 communications chief Alastair Campbell claims in his diaries.
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Mike Harris's dramatic last-gasp penalty in the second Test denies Wales a first win over Australia in Australia for 43 years.
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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 1991 had given her hope Burma had not been forgotten.
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Uefa opens disciplinary proceedings against the Croatian Football Federation following racist chanting during the Italy game.
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The boxer who turned down millions to stay in Cuba
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Two separate car bomb attacks targeting Shia Muslim pilgrims in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 32 people, officials say.
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Spaniard Alvaro Bautista takes pole position at the British MotoGP as Cal Crutchlow misses the session through injury.
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A suicide bomber in Somalia attacks a government base in Afgoye, which was captured by pro-government forces last month, causing some casualties.
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South Africa withstand a brave second-half fightback from England to clinch a series victory in a thrilling encounter in Johannesburg.
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Ian Bell answers his doubters with a superb hundred as England crush West Indies in the first one-day international at the Rose Bowl.
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Can serious diplomacy revive the failing plan for Syria?
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Comedian Russell Brand comperes for the Dalai Lama at the Manchester Arena, as part of the Tibetan spiritual leader's 10-day tour of Britain.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has died, the royal court says, eight months after he became next-in-line to the throne.
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UN observers in Syria suspend their activities because of the escalating violence, the head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Syria says.
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England batsman Ian Bell says he hopes his match-winning century against West Indies would mark a turning point in his one-day career.
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Hours before Greeks go to the polls, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges voters to elect leaders who will stick to austerity measures.
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Petr Jiracek scores the only goal to break Polish hearts and send Czech Republic into the quarter-finals as group winners.
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At least one person dies after a stage collapses in Toronto, Canada, ahead of a Radiohead concert, according to local media.
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Giorgos Karagounis scores as Greece produce one of the shocks of Euro 2012 to knock Russia out of the tournament.
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Nine landless farmers in Paraguay are charged with murder after a deadly clash between the landless and police trying to evict them from a private property.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounces the dissolution of parliament as a coup against democracy, as the country votes for a new president.
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The International Olympic Committee begins an investigation into claims that Olympics officials and agents breached rules on London 2012 ticket sales.
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A policeman in Slovakia kills three people and wounds two more, thought to be members of a Roma family, reports say.
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Paris exhibition explores France's war in Algeria
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