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Brazilian prosecutors say they will bring charges against 17 executives from the US oil firm Chevron and a drilling contractor after a new leak.
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Five-time Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe fails to qualify for London 2012 after finishing 21st in the trials for the 100m freestyle.
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Scotland's public health minister writes to the UK health secretary urging support for a pre-watershed ban on junk food adverts.
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Dancing at dawn in the streets of the Cambodian capital
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Why I'm risking my life to treat Syrian protesters
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Several police officers are arrested in Venezuela after the teenage daughter of a Chilean diplomat was shot dead in the western city of Maracaibo.
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Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen builds support
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Ten Colombian soldiers and an officer are killed in an ambush by suspected Farc rebels in the south-east near the border with Venezuela.
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Security forces clashed with opposition protesters in Guinea when over 1,000 demonstrators rallied in the capital, Conakry.
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A tropical cyclone batters communities along Western Australia's north-west coast with torrential rain and damaging winds.
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More than 50 immigrants have been rescued from a stranded boat off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Police in one of Brazil's most crime-ridden areas have called in "Batman" to help in the fight against Drug trafficking.
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McLaren's Jenson Button dominates the Australian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton finishes third behind Sebastian Vettel.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta trails in third place and faces elimination in the first round of elections, with more than 50% of votes counted.
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Tehran has blocked a UK Foreign Office website in Iran as part of its "ever-tightening stranglehold of censorship", the foreign secretary says.
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Bolton's Fabrice Muamba remains in a critical condition in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital.
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Tens of thousands of Egypt's Coptic Christians hold an overnight vigil and attend a Mass for Pope Shenouda III, who died on Saturday aged 88.
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Indian Maoists kidnap two Italians in eastern Orissa state, the first time Westerners have been abducted there, and demand the release of leaders.
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Rosie O'Donnell's daily US talk show is axed from Oprah Winfrey's TV channel after five months for failing to attract high ratings.
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Lutheran pastor Joachim Gauck takes on German presidency
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Joachim Gauck - an outspoken anti-communist pastor from the East - is elected Germany's new president by lawmakers.
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An American teacher, deputy director of a Swedish language centre, is shot dead by gunmen in Yemen's second city of Taiz, officials say.
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Libya asks Mauritania to hand over Col Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi, also sought by the International Criminal Court and France.
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Russian police arrest dozens of people picketing Moscow's TV tower over footage that accused the opposition of paying anti-government protesters.
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The government in Bolivia has sent troops to the streets of the country's main cities to fight rising crime.
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A former Lutheran pastor and civil rights activist has been elected as Germany's new president, replacing Christian Wulff who resigned last month.
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Two male nurses are arrested in Uruguay over dozens of suspected induced deaths at two hospitals in the capital Montevideo, police say.
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Kilmarnock win the Scottish Communities League Cup for the first time in their history and end Celtic's domestic treble hopes.
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A car bomb has exploded in the Syrian city of Aleppo, with reports of dead and injured, a day after two blasts in the capital Damascus.
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King George Tupou V of the South Pacific nation of Tonga dies in Hong Kong at the age of 63, media reports say.
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Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos claims victory in the centre-left Pasok party's leadership vote, ahead of a general election.
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Two British journalists detained in Libya after being accused of entering the country illegally are being released.
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Crowds of Canadian youngsters battle with police and set fire to a van in Ontario, after St Patrick's Day parties spill on to the streets.
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Crowds of Egyptian Coptic Christians are holding a second all-night vigil to mourn the death of their spiritual leader Pope Shenouda III.
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A motorcycle taxi driver has found celebrity after tweeting scoops on the city's news events.
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Votes are being counted in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau following an election to choose a new president.
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