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Computer game sales overtook those of videos for the first time last year, an industry report suggests.
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Shanty town church in South Korean capital's wealthiest area
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Meet the man who helped make learning Chinese simple
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Portuguese feel the growing burden of austerity
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Deaths from liver disease in England have reached record levels, rising by 25% in less than a decade, according to new NHS figures.
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Moscow's two million Muslims run out of space
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The faces and changes in Old Havana
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The amazing 100-year-old photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
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The Justice Ministry in China says lawyers are now required to swear allegiance to the ruling Communist Party, a move critics see as "inappropriate".
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Troops in Mali have attacked the presidential palace in the capital Bamako hours after staging a mutiny.
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A massive fire sweeps through one of the oldest markets in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, destroying the majority of the shops.
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Australia's most wanted man, who managed to evade a police manhunt for seven years, is finally captured and charged with murder.
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Royal Dutch Shell signs its first-ever production sharing contract for shale gas in China with China National Petroleum Corporation.
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Australia's most wanted man Malcolm Naden, who evaded police for seven years, is finally caught.
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Norwegian social services say they cannot hand over two Indian children taken into foster care to their uncle because of reports of family "conflicts".
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The longest running public inquiry in the history of the Irish Republic is expected to conclude later with the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report.
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Japan posted a surprise trade surplus for February, after a record high deficit the previous month, as external demand picks up.
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A woman kidnapped from a remote beach resort in Kenya and held hostage in Somalia for more than six months is preparing to return home to Britain.
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Portugal's young look abroad for work
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Pictures of South Africa's white extremist training camps
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A High Court judge has ordered Force India to pay more than £700,000 in unpaid fees to Italian race car design company Aerolab.
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B&Q owner Kingfisher has reported a 19% rise in annual profit, but sales in the UK and Irish Republic fell last year.
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Guerra, whose work helped define post-war Italian cinema, dies in Rimini after a short illness.
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The siege of a gunman suspected of seven killings in southern France is nearing an end, police sources say, with AFP reporting he has been killed.
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UK retail sales volumes fell by 0.8% in February compared with the previous month, official figures show, a sharper decline than expected.
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Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is held under house arrest after the death of a policeman during clashes in the capital, his party says.
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A report into corruption in the Republic's planning process finds that former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to truthfully account for a number of financial transactions.
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'Hanging out' with One Direction in the US
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China's manufacturing activity continues to slow, raising fears the global slowdown is harming its economy.
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Renegade soldiers appear on Malian state TV to announce they have seized control of the country, hours after attacking the presidential palace.
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Seven Kurdish rebels and six members of the security forces die in fighting in the far south-east of the country, sources say.
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A police siege in the French city of Toulouse has ended with a man suspected of killing seven people now dead, the French interior minister has said.
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There is outrage in India's parliament after a draft report by government auditors estimated the country lost $210bn by selling coalfields too cheaply.
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Shares in Randgold Resources plunge 13% after a coup in Mali where the company has three gold mines.
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A police siege in the French city of Toulouse has ended with a man suspected of killing seven people now dead, the French interior minister has said.
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The Republic of Ireland fell back into recession in the last three months of 2011, official figures show.
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy has appealed for unity following the dramatic end to the siege in Toulouse.
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Renegade troops in Mali call for calm and say all borders are closed after announcing that they have seized control of the country on state TV.
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UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it will invest £500m in manufacturing in the nation, including building a new factory in Ulverston, Cumbria.
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At least one person has been killed and 25 others critically wounded in a blast south of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say.
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The UN Human Rights Council adopts a resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate alleged abuses during the final phase of war with Tamil rebels.
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Stella McCartney's design for Team GB's London 2012 kit puts athletes in blue-based clothing, with a motif inspired by the union flag, and vivid red shoes.
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French accessories maker Hermes reports a record rise in profits, the latest luxury goods firm to be doing well despite the global economic gloom.
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Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate reportedly demands in a video that Germany free a woman jailed on terror charges in return for a German hostage.
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A 12-year-old boy who smashed a florist's window becomes one of the youngest to be sentenced over last summer's riots in London.
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French Muslims in Paris react to the killing of the Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah.
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Thousands of mourners attend a funeral ceremony in the Belgian town of Leuven, to bury seven more of the 22 children killed in a bus accident last week.
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Public sector workers stage a general strike in Portugal to protest against job cuts and tax rises.
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South African Branden Grace's progress at the Hassan Trophy in Morocco is hampered when he loses his ball in a bunker.
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US President Barack Obama pledges to fast-track federal approval for the southern leg of the much-disputed Keystone XL pipeline project.
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A team of Maasai cricketers in Kenya is engaged in a row with their coach over whether to play in their traditional custom at an upcoming tournament.
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Pakistan win a thrilling Asia Cup final against Bangladesh in Dhaka by two runs, to deny the hosts a first major trophy.
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Cuba intensifies its harassment of dissidents and human rights activists, according to Amnesty International.
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Anzhi Makhachkala hit back at "interference" after Lokomotiv Moscow claim an Anzhi fan - not a Lokomotiv supporter - threw a banana at Christopher Samba.
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The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate alleged abuses during the final phase of war with Tamil rebels.
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Five more bodies are found near the wreck of the Costa Concordia, more than two months after the cruise ship capsized off the Italian coast.
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A soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named by the Ministry of Defence as Capt Rupert Bowers.
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A police sniper shot and killed the gunman who carried out a spate of murders in southern France, prosecutors say, after a 32-hour siege.
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Opposition groups in Syria say at least 10 civilians have died on a bus trying to flee to Turkey, with about 60 people killed throughout the country.
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Police officers in England and Wales are to be balloted on whether they want to be given the right to strike, the Police Federation says.
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A Florida court hears two British men shot dead last year were found with their shirts off and trousers round their thighs.
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Rebel troops in Mali have looted the presidential palace after a coup and claim they are now in power.
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Irish political party Fianna Fail says it will seek to expel former leader and prime minister Bertie Ahern in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.
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Video footage has been released of a US Apache helicopter which went out of control and crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan in February.
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Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, but her chronic use of cocaine was also a factor, a coroner rules.
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The US soldier suspected of killing Afghan civilians, Robert Bales, is to be charged with 17 counts of murder, US officials tell the BBC.
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Indigenous people from Ecuador's Amazon region stage a march against mining plans, as government supporters hold their own rally in favour.
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