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Stars in the UK and US are paying tribute to the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who has been found dead in his New York home at the age of 46.
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The acclaimed Brazilian film director Eduardo Coutinho is stabbed to death at his home in Rio de Janeiro, with his son the main suspect.
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Western-funded college teaches North Korea's future elite
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Did Gaddafi blow up a Libyan airliner, killing 157 people?
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A "pocket optician" made from a modified smartphone is to be used by teachers in Kenya as part of a trial to catch pupils' eye problems.
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Inside a collection of 100,000 US combat letters
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Director Steve McQueen has spoken of his pride at the success of his film 12 Years a Slave at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards.
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El Salvador's left-wing FMLN presidential candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren is leading the polls with more than 50% of votes counted.
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Syrian government forces have killed dozens of civilians in air raids in the northern city of Aleppo, activists say.
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Governing party candidate Johnny Araya takes an early lead as votes are counted in Costa Rica's presidential election.
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Australia's rights body announces an inquiry into the mandatory detention of children seeking asylum, citing a lack of government co-operation.
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Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say they have arrested one person in connection with an alleged attack on two women from north-eastern India.
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A draft law to ban abortion in Spain in all but a small number of circumstances has sparked angry protests by women's action groups.
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Relief efforts are continuing at Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra after it erupted on Saturday, leaving at least 15 people dead.
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Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is found dead aged 46 from an apparent drug overdose.
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Ukraine's embattled President Viktor Yanukovych is to return to work after four days of illness, as an EU-US aid plan is discussed.
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The proposed legal changes that are dividing Spain
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Eurozone manufacturing grows strongly in January on the back of new orders, a closely-watched business survey suggests, with Germany leading the way.
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Rock band You Me At Six top the UK album chart for the first time with their fourth album, Cavalier Youth.
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The merger of South Africa's main opposition party and anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele's party falls apart after just a week.
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A castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific, asks to be taken home after washing up in the Marshall Islands.
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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano erupted three times over the weekend, sending huge clouds of ash and smoke into the sky, authorities said.
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Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe is treated for depression after being found behaving oddly by Australian police.
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Eight men, including four policemen, go on trial in central Turkey over the death of a student in anti-government protests in June last year.
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The mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka calls a snap election amid a row over his local government reform plans.
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Thousands of guests at US hotels may have had their credit and debit data stolen, suggests a security researcher.
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Left-leaning candidate Luis Guillermo Solis has a narrow lead in Costa Rica's presidential election, which is now likely to go into a run-off.
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The BBC's Duncan Crawford reports from the Kiev protest camp as Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych returns to work.
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Al-Qaeda insists it has no links the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which has been locked in deadly clashes with rebels in Syria.
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Buddy cop comedy Ride Along holds on to the top sport in the North American box office for a third consecutive week.
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Thai officials warn it could take weeks to re-stage voting disrupted by protesters, while former PM Abhisit Vejjajiva says the government has lost people's trust.
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El Salvador's left-wing candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren has a convincing lead in the presidential polls, which will go into a second round in March.
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Nigeria's former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar joins the opposition - the most high-profile in a wave of defections from the governing party.
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A Northern Ireland-based social media page sharing videos of an internet drinking game is to be discontinued after the death of an Irish teenager.
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An adventurer who has spent a year running across Canada completes his 5,000-mile (8,000m) journey in Vancouver.
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The UK games industry is "stuck in the slow lane" while the European Commission investigates planned tax breaks, a trade body warns.
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An armed student who killed a police officer and a teacher at a Moscow school and took fellow pupils hostage, is arrested, Russian police say.
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Coastal towns in south-west England are left flooded after dangerously strong winds, large waves and a high tide.
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The French comedian at the centre of the Nicolas Anelka racism row has been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office says.
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At least 14 people have been killed in a series of car bombings in and around Baghdad, officials say.
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Scotland winger Sean Maitland will miss Saturday's Six Nations clash with England because of concussion and a leg injury.
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Janet Yellen is formally sworn in as chair of the US Federal Reserve, beginning a four-year term as head of the world's most influential central bank.
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More than 100 people appear in court in Kenya's port of Mombasa on charges of membership of Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group, police say.
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The mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka has called a snap election amid a row over his local government reform plans.
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Thai election officials have warned that it could take several weeks to re-stage voting in areas where Sunday's election was disrupted by protesters.
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A student who entered a Moscow secondary school and took more than 20 people hostage has been arrested, Moscow police say.
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Several people have been wounded in a suicide bombing in a southern district of the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials say.
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Heavy snow in northern Iran leaves nearly 500,000 homes without power and some towns and villages cut off.
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warns the US government may default on its debt by the end of the month if Congress does not raise its borrowing limit.
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Russian cargo craft, Progress 52, has undocked from the International Space Station.
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One in four homes in Slovenia is left without power as heavy snow and ice bring down trees and electricity lines.
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A court in Russia's far east jails three men for the savage murder of a man they believed to be gay.
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Education Secretary Michael Gove says he wants to end the "Berlin Wall" divide between the state and private school sectors in England.
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Several coastal towns in south-west England are hit by fresh flooding, disrupting business and cutting road and rail links, as high tides and strong winds hit the UK coastline.
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Pakistani politician Imran Khan will not be part of a team representing the Taliban in peace talks with the government, his party confirms.
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The rate at which US women had abortions fell between 2008-11 to the lowest level since abortion was legalised in 1973, a new study suggests.
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Authorities in the US state of Michigan launch a manhunt for a convicted multiple murderer who escaped from prison on Sunday.
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Russia urges Ukraine opposition leaders to end their "ultimatums and threats" as President Yanukovych returns to work amid continuing protests.
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Sectarian fighting in the Central African Republic town of Boda over the last five days has left at least 75 people dead, a local priest says.
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A man accused of shooting an unarmed black teenager who refused to turn down his loud music goes on trial in the US state of Florida.
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Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's search for catharsis
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New York City police have found up to 70 bags of suspected heroin in actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's home, a day after his death, US media say.
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A man who acted as UKIP's Commonwealth spokesman has served a seven-year jail sentence over a kidnapping in Pakistan, BBC Newsnight reveals.
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The judge who reinstated the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito could face disciplinary action for talking to the Italian press.
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The US football Super Bowl is the most-watched TV event in US history, with 111.5m viewers, the Fox TV network says.
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Relatives of the governor of Brazil's richest state were caught up in a gunfight after being approached by a group of armed men, police say.
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