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Who won France's ill-tempered presidential debate?
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Former US senator John Edwards' daughter flees court during evidence about a furious confrontation between her father and mother over his affair.
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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urges China to change its export-led growth policy and increase domestic consumption.
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Singapore's Temasek Holdings is seeking to sell $2.4bn (£1.3bn) worth of its shares in Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told China that it cannot deny the aspirations of its citizens, during a news conference at the start of high-level trade and security talks between the two countries in Beijing.
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France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande trade insults and accusations in a heated televised debate before Sunday's presidential run-off vote.
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A lost pet parakeet gets home safely in Tokyo after telling its home address to local police - a trick it was taught by its owner.
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AirAsia and Malaysian Airline System have scrapped their proposed share swap deal amid pressure from the workers' union at the national carrier.
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Argentina marks the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict with the UK.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his challenger Francois Hollande have traded insults in their only TV debate of the election campaign.
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Activist Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave China hours after leaving his US embassy refuge, as US-China strategic talks get under way.
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French bank Societe Generale's profits fell 20% in the first three months of the year as the eurozone debt crisis continued to hamper results.
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Critically endangered frogs that were reintroduced to the Caribbean island of Montserrat are surviving, say conservationists.
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A soldier is killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during an operation to hunt militants suspected of involvement in last year's deadly bombing of the high court in Delhi.
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German airline Lufthansa says it will cut 3,500 jobs as it seeks to cut its administrative costs by a quarter.
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The singer moves up to fifth on the all-time UK best-selling album list overtaking Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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British-born actress Patricia Medina, who became a leading lady in the golden age of Hollywood, dies in Los Angeles, aged 92.
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A rare Buddhist manuscript, discovered by cattle grazers in 1931, is set to be released in a book form in India on Thursday.
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A plan to build a 140 million euro (£114m) Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront is rejected by politicians in Finland.
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Hungry Sudanese tell of fleeing caves to seek sanctuary
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The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, rejects criticism of the bank's role ahead of the financial crisis.
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Jack White has scored his first number one album in the US with his debut solo record, Blunderbuss.
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Growth in the UK's dominant service sector slowed in April compared with the previous month, a closely-watched survey suggests.
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Two British men who have been blind for many years have been able to perceive light and some shapes after surgery to fit an innovative retina implant.
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At least 17 people are killed and 19 injured in a bus accident in the northern Pakistani region of Kohistan, officials say.
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Spain, which some fear will be the next eurozone country to need help, successfully sells 2.52bn euros of bonds but at higher interest rates.
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Chen Guangcheng was not put under pressure to leave the US embassy, its ambassador says, as the activist tells the BBC he wants to leave China.
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Renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, known locally as the 'Terminator' is wanted for leading an army mutiny in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities say.
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The owner of a Tunisian TV station is fined for showing a controversial and award-winning animated film, Persepolis.
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More than 8,500 Brazilian troops are being deployed in a vast area of the Amazon to tackle drug trafficking, logging and illegal mining.
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says Rio Ferdinand should be part of England's Euro 2012 squad.
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Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga warns that the emergence of ethnically-based political groups could spell doom ahead of elections due next year.
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Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream becomes the most expensive art work sold at auction as it is bought in New York for $119.9m (£74m).
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Members of Egypt's ruling military council say they are committed to civilian rule, a day after violence explodes during a protest in Cairo.
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Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Asif has been released after serving half of a 12-month sentence for a fixing scam, his lawyer says.
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Russia warns it is prepared to use force pre-emptively if the US goes ahead with its plans for a missile defence system based in Eastern Europe.
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The website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency is taken offline following a cyber-attack.
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Germany warns Ukraine again over jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, but Poland opposes any boycott.
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The UK Border Force failed to meet its target for processing Heathrow arrivals from outside the European Economic Area in April, BAA says.
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At least 34 people are killed when gunmen open fire and throw explosives at a cattle market in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say.
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At least four people are killed as Syrian security forces and militiamen raid student accommodation in the second city, Aleppo, activists say.
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UK ministers may boycott Euro 2012 games in Ukraine in protest at the treatment of imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.
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The murder trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi has been delayed for a week, amid fears of growing sectarian tensions.
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The front-runners in Serbia's elections battle for votes on the last day of campaigning in a contest that may determine Belgrade's place in Europe.
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US car giant General Motors reports a sharp drop in quarterly profits, in part due to its loss-making European operations.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes Sunday's presidential election run-off against Francois Hollande will be decided by the tightest margin.
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Police in Bangladesh search for a teacher from a Muslim religious school who allegedly placed burning hot iron rods on the legs of her students.
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John Terry and Rio Ferdinand must unite and play together for England, four former internationals tell BBC Sport.
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RBS will say on Friday that, as of next week, it will have repaid all the £163bn of emergency loans it received from UK and US taxpayers, the BBC has learned.
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A violent death every 74 minutes has earned Honduras the dubious title of murder capital of the world.
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German prosecutors charge four men with membership of a terrorist organisation after they were arrested last year on suspicion of plotting an al-Qaeda attack.
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Ukraine denounces a threatened boycott of Euro 2012 as "destructive" amid concern over the treatment of jailed opposition head Yulia Tymoshenko.
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Mexico's biggest phone company escapes a fine worth nearly $1bn for unfair competition in return for reducing charges to rival networks.
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Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor should serve 80 years after his conviction at The Hague for war crimes in the Sierra Leone civil war, prosecutors say.
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he has been unable to meet US officials to discuss his desire to leave the country, he tells the BBC.
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Defeated centrist French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou throws his weight behind Socialist leader Francois Hollande ahead of Sunday's run-off.
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Israel's Supreme Court defers a decision on an appeal against their imprisonment by two Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for 64 days.
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng telephones a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family.
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England striker Wayne Rooney wins the award for Goal of the 20 Seasons to commemorate 20 years of the Premier League.
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Polls close across England, Scotland and Wales in local elections seen as a crucial mid-term test of the coalition government.
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At least seven people are reported killed in two explosions on the outskirts of Makhachkala, capital of Russia's Dagestan region.
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An in-house thief at the US National Archives is jailed after a radio recording enthusiast saw his own donated Babe Ruth interview for sale on eBay.
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has telephoned a US Congressional hearing to plead for help in his attempts to leave China with his family.
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The economic policies of Francois Hollande will "have a shockwave effect on Europe" if he becomes president of France, Iain Duncan Smith warns.
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Newly released papers from Osama Bin Laden's hideout reveal a frustrated al-Qaeda leader struggling to master an unruly network, the US military says.
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Sudan pledges to stop fighting with South Sudan in compliance with a UN Security Council resolution.
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Dwain Chambers will face Usain Bolt over 100m at the meeting in Ostrava in the Czech Republic later this month.
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The UK unemployment rate will rise to almost 9% by the end of 2012, doing "permanent damage to the UK's productive capacity", a think tank says.
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Nantes lesson for the French economy
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Norway is leading the way in preparing for the move to the net's new addressing scheme, suggests a survey.
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The campaign to improve hand hygiene in hospitals in England and Wales contributed to a significant fall in the rates of superbug infections, according to a report.
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Two missing journalists are among four people found dead in the Mexican state of Veracruz - a region racked by drug-related violence.
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