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How a Swiss valley became a watchmaker's paradise
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Why did a single county issue one in six US death sentences?
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A trailer carrying piglets in the US state of North Carolina crashes, as a result of which many of the animals escape from the vehicle.
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Ukraine water fight video exposes a government breakdown
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Places where women have been raped in India
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Kabila unlikely to give up power in DR Congo
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Australian's immigration minister confirms that visas for the family of dying Pakistani student Hassan Asif are approved.
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Amnesty International has shown evidence suggesting that Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda insists his party are "Euro-realists" not Eurosceptics.
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A New Zealand court rules that internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is eligible to be extradited to the United States to face charges of copyright infringement.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda tells the BBC that a UK exit from the European Union would cause a "very serious crisis".
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A man is pulled alive from rubble more than 60 hours after a landslide in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Yassin Salhi, a French terror suspect who decapitated his boss and tried to blow up a gas plant in June, is found dead in prison.
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Hong Kong based firm Guotai Junan Securities says its missing chairman Yim Fung is back at work after "assisting in certain investigations" in mainland China.
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Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher is nearly hit by a falling drone camera at the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Italy.
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The BBC's Anna Holligan looks at the impact the attacks in Paris have had on a city that's usually full of tourists.
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France says its forces in Mali have killed or captured 10 members of an Islamist group which claimed responsibility for a hotel massacre last month.
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Iraqi forces try to move further into the centre of Ramadi, on the second day of an assault to drive Islamic State militants from the city.
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It emerges that more than 3,200 US prisoners in Washington state were released early because of a software bug.
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Somalia's government bans the celebration of Christmas, warning that such Christian festivities could threaten the nation's Muslim faith.
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Military reinforcements arrive in the Afghan district of Sangin to support forces besieged by the Taliban, the Helmand deputy governor tells the BBC.
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China has a lot of orphanages for children. But the Ji Xiang temple has an entirely different purpose - it's an orphanage for the elderly.
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The life of a Sri Lankan maid due to be stoned to death in Saudi Arabia for adultery has been spared, Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says.
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A man buried in rubble for almost three days after a landslide hit the south Chinese city of Shenzhen is pulled out alive.
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Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez refuses to back a government led by the conservative Popular Party (PP), after inconclusive elections.
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Police in India file charges against 15 suspects, including a juvenile, over the lynching of a Muslim man accused by Hindus of eating beef.
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Why do so many Colombian men like getting manicures?
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Amnesty International says at least 200 civilians died in the first two months of Russian air strikes in Syria and war crimes may have been committed.
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An explosion on the tarmac at an Istanbul airport kills a woman cleaner on a plane, and police are investigating whether it was caused by a bomb.
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A Russian court puts ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on an international wanted list over the 1990s murder of a Siberian mayor.
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US defence officials confirm a streaking fireball over the skies of Nevada and California was Russian space debris.
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Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a fierce critic of President Putin, says he is considering asking for political asylum in the UK.
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Afghan government forces have lost control of the centre of the town of Sangin in Helmand province, reports suggest.
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Exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said Russia will see a change in regime within ten years.
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Latest reports from southern Afghanistan suggest that the district of Sangin in Helmand province is now almost entirely under Taliban control.
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A migrant from Senegal who travelled to Europe by boat wins a stake of some €400,000 in Spain's Christmas lottery.
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Australian police charge three people after a child was allegedly locked inside an elaborate underground drugs compound north of Sydney.
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Russia's defence ministry says an Amnesty International report accusing Moscow of indiscriminate air strikes in Syria is "total lies".
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The Indian women fighting to stop female genital mutilation
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