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Senior Fifa executive Jerome Valcke apologises to Brazil for his criticism of the country's World Cup 2014 preparations.
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From old cars to condoms
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US Senator John McCain has called for America to lead an international force to protect key population centres in Syria through air strikes on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
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The US lays out for the first time when it will use "lethal force" to target Americans who are plotting attacks against the country.
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Newsnight's Tim Whewell reports from Russia, where police have made 550 arrests after protests against Vladimir Putin's election as president.
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The US Senate votes to uphold Washington's ability to impose duties on subsidised goods from China and Vietnam.
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Argentina is to open a museum honouring its soldiers who died during the Falklands conflict with the UK in 1982, President Cristina Fernandez says.
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Election results from five Indian states including the largest state of Uttar Pradesh are to be announced on Tuesday.
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Almost 9,000 people are ordered to leave their homes in the town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales as floods continue to threaten southeast Australia.
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The housewives overturning India's food scene
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The fringes of Antarctica are being invaded by alien plants and tiny animals, scientists have found, with the average visitor carrying 9.5 seeds.
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Singapore's government announces that maids working in the country must get a weekly rest day from next year.
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The area where ammunitions stockpiles exploded in Congo's capital, Brazzaville, is still too unsafe to enter according to rescue workers.
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Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his country's right to defend itself against an Iranian nuclear threat.
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A young Tibetan teenager burns himself to death in China, rights groups say, becoming the third such reported case this week.
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US investment bank Goldman Sachs posts a loss in Asia, the first since 2008, following declines in the Chinese stock market
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells US President Barack Obama that Israel must always remain "master of its fate", as they meet for key talks on Iran.
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A three-year-old McDonald's McNugget resembling US President George Washington is auctioned on eBay for $8,100.
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A Briton extradited to the United States over allegations of arms dealing is denied bail.
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India's Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar asks Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lift a ban on cotton exports announced on Monday.
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Papua New Guinea's chief justice is charged with obstructing a police investigation into his management of the court.
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Bangkok's Don Muang airport reopens to traffic four months after it was inundated in Thailand's devastating floods.
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Shareholders in Tokyo Electric Power Company sue the firm's directors over their role in Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
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US TV network Fox cancels Steven Spielberg drama Terra Nova after just one series.
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UK house prices fell by 0.5% in February compared with the previous month, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.
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Growth figures out today could show Brazil's economy overtaking the UK to become the world's sixth largest.
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Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have launched more than 400 cases alleging human rights abuses against security personnel in recent years, officials say.
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Eurostar services between London and Paris suffer serious delays due to an overhead cable fault, with many passengers stranded on trains.
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Comedy drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel knocks The Woman in Black off the top of the UK box office chart.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells a pro-Israel US lobby time is running out to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon.
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Are rising drug costs curbing US executions?
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For the first time since a ban was imposed in 2007, Israel has permitted the export of goods from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
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Iran says it is prepared under certain conditions to give UN nuclear inspectors access to a key military site at Parchin.
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Several thousand people march in Peru's eastern Amazon against tough new sanctions for illegal gold mining.
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US engineers working on battlefield improvements have built a four-legged robot which is able to run as fast as 18mph (29km/h) on a treadmill.
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Russian police release about 250 opposition activists after an anti-Putin rally, amid reports of major election fraud.
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BT and Talk Talk have lost an appeal against government plans to curb the spread of illegal file-sharing.
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Can Russia's president-elect show a new face?
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Turkish Airlines begins a twice-weekly service to Somalia's capital, the first major carrier from outside the East Africa to land in Mogadishu in more than 20 years.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan fires a century as Sri Lanka beat Australia to level the best-of-three one-day international tri-series.
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A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria's south-east coast goes out after 46 days, US oil and gas firm Chevron says.
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The Israeli press detects some common ground with the United States on the Iranian nuclear issue; Iranian newspapers play down Obama's comments as "propaganda"
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Passenger Eden Victoria Erlandsson, who was on an Air France flight forced to make an emergency landing, decribes how people were crying and screaming in panic.
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Skiers at a resort in the Savoie region of France escaped injury when an avalanche plunged down the St Francois Longchamp mountain, at the weekend.
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Syrian state TV has broadcast what it says is footage of trucks and diggers 'cleaning up' debris in the embattled district of Baba Amr.
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Thousands of Syrian refugees have recently crossed into Lebanon, the UN says, amid reports that security forces are committing atrocities in Homs.
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Two retired Church of England priests are arrested in the Eastbourne area on suspicion of sexually abusing children and young men.
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Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt is pressed to clarify a report that his government is helping Saudi Arabia plan an advanced arms factory.
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Carmaker Nissan is to build a new model at its Sunderland factory, with investment of £125m, which it says will create 2,000 jobs.
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Newsnight's Mark Urban reports from the Libyan city of Sirte, which still lies in ruins months after Colonel Gaddafi's death.
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Robert B Sherman, who penned songs for Disney classics including Mary Poppins and Winnie the Pooh with his brother Richard M, dies in London aged 86.
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Congolese city picks up pieces after deadly arms depot blasts
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A Saudi Arabian official has been shot dead in an upmarket district of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, police say.
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India's ruling Congress party suffers a blow as it fails to build on its low standing in assembly elections in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Switzerland moves closer towards enforcing a higher rate of income tax on the country's 5,000 wealthiest foreign residents.
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Ethiopian rebels say they have released two German tourists who were taken captive in January, but there is no official confirmation.
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A clothing label popular among neo-Nazis angers German officials by naming a shop "Brevik" - similar to the Norwegian mass killer's name "Breivik".
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An investigation into potentially fraudulent robocalls in advance of the 2011 Canadian election reaches internet commerce company Paypal.
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A UN team has arrived in Australia to investigate possible damage to the Great Barrier Reef by the mining industry.
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Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, overtaking the UK, the country's finance minister says.
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Compulsory chemical castration is introduced for paedophiles in Moldova, after a vote in the country's parliament.
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Afghanistan's government is facing criticism after welcoming guidance from Muslim clerics that women should not mix with men at school, at work or in other aspects of daily life.
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At least 42 people have been killed by an avalanche in Afghanistan's remote north-eastern Badakhshan province, officials say.
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Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, the country's finance minister has said.
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US law authorities charge hackers in the UK, US and Ireland. The men are accused of being involved in cyber attacks by Lulzsec and Antisec.
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Six major world powers and Iran are to hold fresh talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, the EU says, a year after the last round failed.
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Security forces have been shelling rebel-held towns in Syria, activists say, as President Bashar al-Assad vows to continue fighting "terrorism".
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Britain's Ambassador to Syria, Simon Collis, has told the BBC that the Assad regime has so much 'blood on its hands' that the Syrian people know it is doomed.
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Vince Cable says he would like to see Royal Bank of Scotland turned into a new bank for British businesses, a leaked letter shows.
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The owners of the mine in Chile where 33 men were trapped for 69 days agree to pay $5m (£3.2m) towards their rescue.
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Muslim and Jewish groups react with dismay after French PM Francois Fillon suggests the religious slaughter of animals is out of date.
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Prince Harry takes part in a "race" with Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt during his visit to Jamaica as part of a tour to mark his grandmother's Diamond Jubilee.
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Stock markets decline sharply on concerns ahead of a key deadline to secure Greece's future in the euro.
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Lehman Brothers, the US investment bank that collapsed in 2008, exits bankruptcy protection to sell its remaining assets.
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US President Barack Obama said the situation in Syria was heartbreaking but that there was no simple solution.
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The FBI offers a $1m (£636,000) reward for the safe return of former agent Robert Levinson, last seen in Iran five years ago while working as a private investigator.
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Civic leaders in eastern Libya declare semi-autonomy for the oil-rich region, saying the area has been neglected for decades.
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The German central bank is reasserting its authority
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