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Japan and 10-man Greece share a goalless draw in Natal that leaves both teams with a chance of reaching the last 16.
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As Sunni military extremists spend a second day battling to seize control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery, Reda Al Mawy of the BBC's Arabic Service reports on the rush to buy fuel at a petrol station in Irbil, northern Iraq.
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Why Iceland halted construction of a new road
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The government's flagship welfare policy, Universal Credit, is set to be introduced in 90 jobcentres across north-west England, the work and pensions secretary says.
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Roy Hodgson insists he will not quit his job as England manager despite his side being on the brink of World Cup elimination.
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Israel's contested version of the hashtag
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Piracy control specialists, Irdeto, estimate nine million people watched the World Cup match between Germany and Portugal on illegal streams. How does the industry tackle it?
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Uruguay match-winner Luis Suarez says the 2-1 World Cup win over England brought him retribution against his critics.
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The top of a 3,000m-high (10,000ft) mountain in Chile has been blown up to make way for the world's largest optical and infrared telescope.
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Why Indian nurses want to go back to Iraq
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The largest Presbyterian church group in the US has voted to allow its clergy to perform same-sex weddings.
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Japan's parliament has passed a law that bans the possession of child abuse images, but it excludes pictures in comics, animations and video games.
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President Obama says the US is sending up to 300 "military advisers" to Iraq and may take "targeted military action" against Islamist insurgents.
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The Australian authorities announce that the next phase of the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane will move hundreds of miles south.
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Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sweeten their offer to buy the energy business of France's Alstom, in the latest move by competing bidders.
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A bomb disposal expert who survived hostile conditions in Libya and Iraq admits he is "fortunate" to survive stepping in front of a bus in Guernsey.
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The fighting between Pro-Russian militias and Ukrainian troops in the east of the country has left a scarred landscape with damaged infrastructure.
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The BBC's Paul Wood was reporting on Kurdish troops in Iraq when the group he was with came under fire from militant fighters.
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Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are holding an unofficial vote on universal suffrage, with organisers saying 35,000 voted in its first hour.
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Shares in American Apparel rise sharply after the clothing firm's board voted to oust its controversial founder and chief executive Dov Charney.
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Nico Rosberg heads Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in a rain-affected first practice at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
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Matthew Price reports from Italian naval vessel the Bergamini, as it locates a migrant boat at sea, overloaded with passengers.
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US country music star Glen Campbell Alzheimer's disease has worsened to the point where he needs full-time professional care, his wife says.
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BBC films Italian ship saving migrants from overloaded boat
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West Brom sign England defender Joleon Lescott after the player's contract at Manchester City comes to an end.
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Heavy flooding hits eastern Bulgaria, killing at least 10 people and causing severe damage to several cities.
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Violence in Iraq has sent oil prices close to a nine-month high of $115 per barrel.
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Police in Panama say they have found bones that could be the remains of two Dutch women who went missing more than two months ago.
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Shares in British pharmaceutical firm Shire soar as much as 13% after the company rejects a £27bn takeover bid from US drug giant AbbVie.
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Britain's reigning Wimbledon champion Andy Murray starts the defence of his title against Belgian David Goffin.
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Inside eastern Ukraine towns destroyed by fighting
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Details of a 14-point peace plan to be unveiled by Ukraine's President Poroshenko emerge, as heavy fighting continues in the east of the country.
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A man in a vegetative state, whose fate has split his family, should have his life support ended, the public rapporteur of France's top court says.
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Prosecutors say the head of the company that ran the capsized South Korean ferry caused the accident by loading too much cargo on the ship.
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A car bomb kills at least 34 people in a Syrian government-controlled village in central Hama province, state media say.
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Kenya's government urges fans to watch World Cup matches at home instead of in crowded areas after deadly attacks along the coast earlier this week.
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Lewis Hamilton was significantly quicker than Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in second practice at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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A Palestinian youth has been killed during clashes with Israeli troops searching for three Israeli teenagers believed abducted in the West Bank.
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Members of the US House of Representatives band together in a cross-party vote to pass legislation to curb electronic spying.
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Dutch masterpieces back home after two-year tour
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At least 12 people have been killed and several are missing after torrential rain and heavy floods hit the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna.
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Poland's justice ministry criticises prosecutors over a raid on a magazine's offices to find leaked tapes that embarrassed the government.
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Tensions mount over disappearance of Israeli teens
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Albanian PM Edi Rama praises a major anti-drug police operation in the southern village of Lazarat that netted more than 25 tonnes of marijuana.
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Bulgaria's central bank takes control of one of the country's biggest lenders and warns depositors to stay calm.
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Cristiano Ronaldo trains with the Portugal squad after fears that his World Cup participation could be in doubt.
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Not everyone in Brazil is a fan of the beautiful game
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Prosecutors say the head of the company that operated a South Korean ferry that capsized in April caused the accident by overloading the ship.
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Islamist militants and pro-government forces battle for Iraq's Baiji oil refinery and Tal Afar, after the US said it would send military advisers.
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The bid battle for France's rail and energy group Alstom shifts in favour of General Electric after the US firm agrees to work with French state on a new offer.
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Roy Hodgson will remain as England manager until 2016, according to Football Association chairman Greg Dyke.
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant shell is braced to pay up to £30m in compensation after two oil spills in Nigeria, but lawyers for the communities affected say the company has a responsibility to protects its pipelines from thieves.
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Matthew Price live-tweets an operation to save migrants
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Diplomats in Vienna say they have begun drafting the text of a final comprehensive deal to settle the dispute over Iran's nuclear activities.
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Stuart Broad takes a hat-trick as England bowl Sri Lanka out for 257 in the second Test and close on 36-0 in reply.
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A 19-year-old man is arrested in connection with the death of a Saudi Arabian woman in Essex.
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Some of Fidel Castro's old Soviet-built limousines have been decommissioned and are being used as Havana taxis for foreign tourists.
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England hope to win only their third Test in New Zealand when they face the record-chasing All Blacks in Dunedin on Saturday.
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Costa Rica produce a surprise win against four-time world champions Italy, a result that sends Group D rivals England out.
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The number of US health workers potentially exposed to the anthrax bacteria rises to 84, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
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England are eliminated at the group stage of the World Cup for the first time since 1958 as Italy lose 1-0 to Costa Rica.
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Argentina's president says her government will negotiate with all its creditors, reversing a decision not to talk to hedge fund investors.
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Briton Jermaine Grant, accused of intent to cause explosions, texted an alleged accomplice a warning they were being watched, a court in Kenya hears.
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Ukraine's President Poroshenko declares a week-long unilateral ceasefire with pro-Russian militants, as he visits the restive east of the country.
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France all but secure a place in the last 16 by thrashing Switzerland 5-2 in Group E at the 2014 Fifa World Cup.
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Director of Operations at MSF, Dr Bart Janssens, says the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is totally out of control.
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Tracking British jihadists in Syria is now the top priority for MI5, as footage appears to show British men trying to recruit people to fight in Iraq.
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Manager Roy Hodgson says England were "well prepared" despite their exit after only two games of the World Cup's group stages.
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Thousands of people gather for the funeral of a Palestinian teenager who was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers.
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The BBC's Fergal Keane went to Jalula in northern Iraq, and obtained exclusive footage of Isis suspects surrendering to Kurdish forces.
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Costa Rica boss Jorge Luis Pinto says he told his players to "change history" before watching them beat Italy 1-0.
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Robin van Persie says criticism of Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney in England's World Cup campaign is unjust.
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The White House has announced a federal strategy to understand why honey bees are dying off and produce a plan to stop their decline.
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The government announces it is to ban "greedy" councils in England from using static and car-mounted cameras to catch drivers who park illegally.
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The public image of Cuba's Fidel Castro is that of the exemplary and frugal leader, but his bodyguard of 17 years has written a book in which he claims the former leader enjoyed a lifestyle at odds with the sacrifices he demanded of his people.
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The day trip that devastated New York's German community
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Firefighters in England and Wales are to strike for seven hours in an ongoing row with the government over pensions.
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The US pledges millions of dollars in aid to Central American countries, believing it will help reduce the growing number of migrants, especially children.
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