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BurmaBurma gets a taste of election campaign fever
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United StatesRapping bankers and other US news
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North Korea, United StatesBarack Obama has revealed his nomination for the new head of the World Bank. He is a Korean-born American academic called Jim Yong Kim, who has a sideline in musical performance, as John McManus reports.
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Spain, 
MexicoThousands have greeted Pope Benedict XVI after he landed in Mexico on his first official visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America.
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PakistanThe quiet erosion of internet freedom in Pakistan
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GuatemalaGuatemala arrests former police chief Marlene Blanco Lapola for alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings of criminal suspects.
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United StatesUS lawmakers release $88.6m (£56m) in development aid for the Palestinians that has been frozen for more than six months.
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MexicoThousands of supporters greet Pope Benedict XVI on his first visit to Mexico, as he denounces the "evil" of drug-related violence in the country.
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SyriaAn Syrian activist has described how "at least 19" government tanks have rolled into the city of Hama and "shelled houses".
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Spain, MexicoPope Benedict XVI has arrived in Mexico, at the start of his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America.
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Sri Lanka, 
United KingdomEngland bowler Stuart Broad sits out training with an ankle strain ahead of Monday's first Test against Sri Lanka.
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MalaysiaMcLaren's Lewis Hamilton is on pole for the Malaysian GP, with Jenson Button second and Michael Schumacher third.
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AustraliaHuman hunters were responsible for the extinction of Australia's giant vertebrates about 40,000 years ago, scientists conclude.
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Malaysia, 
BermudaLewis Hamilton says taking pole position was the "easy part" of trying to win the Malaysian Grand Prix for the first time.
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UgandaA military force set up by the African Union to track down notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony is being launched in South Sudan.
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Turkey, SyriaTurkey's Syrian refugees try to keep revolution alive
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Philippines, North Korea, Australia, United StatesA senior US official says a North Korean rocket launch may affect an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, an Australian newspaper reports.
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United KingdomSinger Rihanna has been announced as the headline act at a free weekend festival in east London in June.
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Canada, 
JapanAn empty Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by the March 2011 tsunami is spotted drifting off the west coast of Canada.
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TurkeyTurkish officials say 15 Kurdish militants, all of them women, have died in fighting with security forces in south-eastern Bitlis province.
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Russia, 
Germany, United KingdomScotland Yard confirms a man who was shot several times in east London on Tuesday evening is former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov.
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United Kingdom, United StatesThe sister of a teenager Shawn Tyson on trial accused of murdering two British tourists in Florida is arrested over a Facebook message.
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EgyptNew clashes flare in Egypt's Port Said after al-Masry football club is suspended over match violence, which left dozens of people dead in February.
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FranceA brother of Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah denies helping him mount his deadly attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, a police source says.
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Syria, RussiaThe UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, arrives for talks in Moscow amid reports of 24 civilian deaths in continuing violence.
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EgyptEgypt's liberal MPs walk out of a vote to choose a panel drafting a new constitution over fears Islamists will monopolise the process.
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United KingdomThe Anglican Covenant - aimed at maintaining unity in the worldwide Anglican Communion - is rejected by Church of England dioceses.
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Guatemala, United StatesA Central American summit to discuss the possible decriminalisation of drugs opens in Guatemala with several leaders declining to attend.
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MaliThe leader of the coup in Mali denounces looting in the capital, Bamako, telling the BBC he is in "complete control" of the country.
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IrelandFormer Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern is to resign from the Fianna Fail party in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.
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ItalyWork to remove fuel from the wreck of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been completed, Italian officials announce.
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South Korea, United StatesUS President Barack Obama begins a visit to South Korea, as tensions rise in the region over a rocket launch planned by the North next month.
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