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No agreement for US car bail-out - US carmakers are given a deadline to produce a viable recovery plan if they want a $25bn government bail-out....
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Argentine pension takeover passed - Argentina's Senate approves a bill to nationalise private pension schemes, a measure that has provoked controversy....
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French Socialists in run-off vote - France's opposition Socialists face a run-off vote for a new leader, after a first ballot failed to produce a winner....
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Madonna split 'not about money' - Guy Ritchie tells a newspaper that discussion over the terms of his divorce from Madonna "was never, ever about money"....
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US Lockerbie families compensated - The families of US victims of the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing say they have received full compensation from Libya....
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UN agrees DR Congo troop increase - The UN Security Council votes to send 3,000 more troops to DR Congo following renewed fighting in the east of the country....
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US judge orders Algerians freed - Five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay for almost seven years must be freed, a US judge rules....
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US convicts Syrian arms dealer - A Syrian-born arms dealer is convicted by a US court of conspiring to sell weapons to left-wing Colombian rebels....
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Brazil targets illegal abortions - Brazilian police are investigating more than 1,200 women suspected of having had illegal abortions at the same clinic....
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Found: Body of Copernicus, man who revealed the solar system - Polish researchers say they have solved an ancient mystery and identified the remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus....
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Riddle of the Czech beauty without a belly button - Underwear model Karolina Kurkova has no belly button. Is a barely-there navel for cosmetic or medical reasons?...
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Gallas questions Arsenal courage - Arsenal captain William Gallas admits his side must toughen up if they are to challenge for the Premier League title....
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Wilkinson 'can play 'til he's 40' - Jonny Wilkinson's mentor Steve Black believes the England fly-half can defy his injuries and play until he is 40....
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Send your video, pictures and story ideas - Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you....
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It's quiz time! - What is missing from this supermodel's body?...
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'Tinderbox' region - The struggle for peace in Rwanda and DR Congo...
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Home from home - International Space Station marks its tenth anniversary...
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Day in pictures - The most striking images from around the world...
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Thinking allowed - Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt...
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Despair and anger - Gazans report worst ever living conditions ...
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S Africa to cut aid to Zimbabwe - South Africa's cabinet says it will withhold $28m of aid to Zimbabwe until a representative government is in place....
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US warned of China 'cyber-spying' - China has increased computer espionage attacks on US government and business interests, Congress is warned....
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China fears grow over job losses - Beijing says its employment outlook is "grim", amid concerns of increasing social unrest caused by economic problems....
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Magnate's body stolen in Austria - Thieves have stolen the remains of a billionaire who died in 2006 from his vault in southern Austria, police say....
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Arab plan explained in Hebrew ads - The Palestinian Authority has placed a full-page advert in Israel's Hebrew newspapers to promote an Arab peace plan....
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India praised for sinking pirates - An anti-piracy group welcomes an Indian navy warship's destruction of a suspected Somali pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden....
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Welfare plan 'may cause poverty' - Ministers should rethink plans to force lone parents, disabled people and long term jobless into work, a government advisor says....
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Recession fears hit Wall Street - Wall Street shares fall steeply for the second day in a row, amid investors' growing fears of a protracted economic downturn....
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Over-the-counter Viagra bid ends - The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription....
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First otter reaches Farne Islands - An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says....
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Madonna and Ritchie begin divorce - Singer Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are to begin their divorce at the High Court in London on Friday, according to court lists....
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UK 'ahead in digital TV uptake' - Digital television is spreading faster in Britain than in France, Canada, the US, Germany and Japan, according to research....
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