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How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack?
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The UN Security Council and Germany have agreed to resume talks with Tehran on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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The Afghan who acts as undertaker to the Taliban
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A strike by lorry drivers supplying Sao Paulo with fuel is creating shortages at fuel stations throughout the Brazilian city.
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President Barack Obama says the violence in Syria is heartbreaking but that unilateral US military intervention there would be a mistake.
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Artificial limbs from ancient Egypt to the present day
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US envoys are meeting North Korean officials in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal aimed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists across South Africa are expected to march against new toll roads between Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria.
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State election results come as a big blow to the ruling Congress party, Indian media says.
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Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are in a knife-edge battle for the state of Ohio, Super Tuesday's most coveted prize.
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New focus for British assistance to India
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The arrival of more than 250,000 bats in a small town in northern Australia prompts warnings of a potentially fatal disease.
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Australia's economy expands by less than expected in the fourth quarter of 2011, sending the dollar to a six-week low.
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy says there are too many foreigners in France, and defends his plan to halve new arrivals if he is re-elected.
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The US drags India to the World Trade Organization challenging Delhi's ban on imports of American poultry goods.
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Tribal leaders and militia commanders in the Libyan city of Benghazi have declared their region to be semi-autonomous.
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Four people are killed and 10 injured in a bomb blast at a police post close to the Afghan border with Pakistan, Afghan officials say.
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Police in Delhi arrest an Indian journalist in connection with a bomb blast last month which injured an Israeli diplomat's wife in the city.
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Prospective captain Rory Best is reported to be Ireland's latest injury worry for Saturday's Six Nations clash against Scotland.
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US scientists report seeing tentative evidence of the elusive Higgs boson, at a mass similar to the hints seen at the Large Hadron Collider.
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People in the US and across the world celebrate the centenary of Oreo - America's best-selling cookie.
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US Republican hopeful Mitt Romney wins six of 10 states voting on Super Tuesday, including crucial Ohio, but not by enough to seal the race.
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A Chinese official says self-immolations in Tibet will not disrupt regional development, as state media confirm the death of a woman in Gansu province.
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Tokyo prosecutors charge Japanese camera-maker Olympus and three former executives in connection with a $1.7bn accounting scandal.
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A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed in south London.
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Jean-Claude Mas, the head of the French implant supplier at the heart of a global health scare, is jailed for not paying his bail.
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A suicide bomber kills herself and five police officers in the troubled Russian region of Dagestan, weeks after security forces kill her husband, prosecutors say.
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Afghan rescuers are searching for survivors from a remote village, after a series of avalanches killed at least 47 people.
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Chilean political leaders promise to speed up efforts to pass a hate crime law after a young gay man is brutally beaten.
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A painting by 17th Century Baroque artist Giovanni Barbieri, best known as Guercino, is to remain in the UK.
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Leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, say they will not help Iran militarily in any conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic.
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A high-ranking Nigerian customs officer has been shot dead by gunmen thought to be from the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, police say.
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The leader of Libya's NTC says calls for a federal state structure from oil-rich Cyrenaica will be resisted with force if necessary
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An Indonesian court sentences former Citibank executive Malinda Dee to eight years in prison for stealing more than $4m (£2.5m) from her wealthy clients.
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UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos is in Syria to try to get aid into damaged cities, as the Red Cross remains blocked from the Baba Amr area of Homs.
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Why is Israel's prime minister calling Iran a nuclear duck?
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At least 12 people have been killed in co-ordinated car bomb and suicide bomb attacks in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police say.
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Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to attacks which left 77 people dead and 242 injured in Norway, is charged with committing terror acts.
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India's Kingfisher Airlines is suspended from the International Air Transport Association's clearing house because of non-payment.
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BBC World News television is back on air in Pakistan, following a row over a documentary questioning the country's commitment to tackling militancy.
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Julie Delpy's latest movie 2 Days in New York and the award-winning drugs documentary The House I Live In will be shown at the inaugural Sundance London film festival.
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More private sector lenders sign up to a Greek debt swap deal that may determine whether or not the country can remain in the euro.
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A monitoring group set up by protesters in Russia refuses to recognise the results of the presidential election which returned Vladimir Putin to power.
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A Malaysian teacher is jailed for 18 years for killing a seven-year-old pupil at his boarding school by beating and strangling him.
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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, orders the setting up of a new body to oversee the internet
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Swiss watchmaker Hublot unveils a diamond-encrusted watch it says is worth $5m, one of the most expensive ever made.
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A German convicted for his role in an art forgery scandal says he faked works by "about 50" artists over the course of his career.
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A man in New Zealand who caught a giant tuna is waiting to hear if he has set a world record.
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German airline Lufthansa reports an annual loss of 13m euros as a result of losses and disposal costs at its BMI subsidiary.
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Six soldiers are killed in the single worst enemy attack on UK troops in Afghanistan since operations began 11 years ago.
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A man is arrested after a female torso, feared to be that of a missing former EastEnders actress, was found in a canal in London.
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The organisers of Eurovision announce that Armenia has pulled out of the 2012 show in Baku amid new tension with its old rival Azerbaijan.
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim once again comes top of Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest billionaires.
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The ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei sues a former bodyguard who she accuses of stealing jewellery worth millions of dollars.
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Initial assessments of an explosion which killed six British soldiers in southern Afghanistan suggest it was a "very large Taliban bomb".
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Bamiyan province in Afghanistan, once famed for its now destroyed Buddha statues, hopes that it will become a destination for skiing enthusiasts after holding its first ever international skiing championship.
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Tens of thousands of South Africans have marched in protest over new tolls on roads in what unions says is "the first warning shot" to government.
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Australia's military faces years of abuse inquiries, after a review sparked by a sex scandal found 775 "plausible" abuse claims dating back 60 years.
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A building with a hole in its centre is dividing public opinion in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.
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The Spanish town of Rasquera has leased land to grow cannabis in order to pay its 1.3 million euros debt.
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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini confirms Mario Balotelli has been fined a week's wages, which the Italian has accepted.
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Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas have just returned from the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya with their remote-controlled camera.
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Argentine Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi resigns because of health problems, two weeks after the country suffered its worst train crash in decades.
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The UN's aid chief says parts of the Syrian city of Homs have been "completely devastated", after a brief visit to the bombed district of Baba Amr.
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The government in Sudan rejects allegations of crimes against humanity in South Kordofan made by a former senior UN official.
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Business Secretary Vince Cable launches a fresh attack on the UK's banks, accusing them of "imperilling" the UK's economic recovery.
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France - and pledged to halve the number of immigrants arriving if he is re-elected later this year.
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A Mexican judge proposes the release of Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, whose 60-year sentence for kidnapping has been the source of friction with France.
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The captain of a ship which ran aground off New Zealand spilling hundreds of tonnes of fuel oil was taking a short cut, a new report suggests.
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Apoel Nicosia's Champions League fairytale continues as the minnows stun Lyon to book a place in the quarter-finals.
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