| Biden tries to ease Mid-East row |
| US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli settlement plans. |
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| Greeks stage fresh general strike |
| Greek public and transport services grind to a halt and clashes break out during a third strike over austerity measures. |
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| Mexican shakes up world rich list |
| Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn.
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| Nigeria survivors recall massacre |
| Survivors of violence in central Nigeria on Sunday have been telling the BBC what happened. |
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| Chile's new leader to be sworn in |
| Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in as president, with a major post-earthquake rebuilding effort ahead of him. |
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| Afghan plea for 'no proxy wars' |
| Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad. |
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| Lula criticised by Cuba dissidents |
| Brazil's President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on hunger strike to common criminals. |
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| Ukraine president forms coalition |
| Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament, and one of his loyalists is nominated as PM. |
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| Japan opens 98th national airport |
| Japan opens an airport in Ibaraki offering just one flight a day, sparking criticism over wasteful spending. |
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| Feathers fly: Bank of America sorry for confiscating parrot |
| Bank of America has apologised to a woman in Pennsylvania after one of its contractors entered her house and confiscated her parrot. |
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| Israel supermarket uses parody film of Dubai assassins in advert |
| An Israeli supermarket chain uses spoof surveillance footage, parodying that of the alleged assassins of a Hamas commander in Dubai, in a TV advert. |
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| Beckham lauds 'world best' Rooney |
| David Beckham hails Wayne Rooney as one of the world's best players after he fires Man Utd into the Champions League quarter-finals. |
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| Live text - England v Germany |
| England's men take on Germany in the semi-finals of the Hockey World Cup, having reached the last four for the first time since 1986. |
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| Powered pedal |
| Beijing's silent invasion of electric bicycles |
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| Money man |
| A look at Mexican Carlos Slim - the world's richest man |
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| Tough task |
| Challenges ahead for new president in quake-hit Chile |
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| Mardell's America |
| 'Open carry' activists do weekly shop with a gun |
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| Earth Watch |
| Will review of UN climate change body be unbiased? |
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| Afghan anxieties |
| Why the UK fears politics and force are out of synch |
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| Gambia row over wave of arrests |
| An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why they are being held. |
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| DR Congo mines 'hit by extortion' |
| Former rebels in DR Congo, now in the army, are running mafia-style extortion rackets in mines, campaigners say. |
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| BP to explore for oil in Brazil |
| Oil giant BP announces a $7bn (£4.7bn) deal that will allow it to begin exploring for oil off the coast of Brazil. |
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| Haiti situation 'dire', Obama says |
| Barack Obama warns that the crisis in quake-hit Haiti is not over, as he meets the country's President, Rene Preval. |
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| Burma election laws condemned |
| Burma's election laws provoke widespread condemnation, as Aung San Suu Kyi's 1990 poll win is formally annulled. |
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| Japan protest over tuna ban plan |
| Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan. |
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| Ex-Bosnian leader freed on bail |
| Ex-Bosnian President Ejup Ganic, who faces war crimes allegations, has been given bail by London's High Court. |
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| EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban |
| EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover. |
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| Hamas release British journalist |
| Hamas release a British journalist, Paul Martin, accused of spying and jailed for a month in the Gaza Strip, British officials say. |
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| Egypt's top cleric dies aged 81 |
| Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of 81. |
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| Afghan police drug abuse 'rife' |
| Drug abuse is rife in the Afghan police force with up to 40% of recruits testing positive in some areas, a US report says. |
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| Pakistan kidnap boy not released |
| The Foreign Office says a five-year-old boy from Oldham kidnapped in Pakistan has not been released. |
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| New Kurdish party to challenge polls |
| Jim Muir reports on the new Kurdish party that has emerged in northern Iraq to mount a challenge in the third general election since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. |
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| Bitterness and unease in Zimbabwe |
| Andrew Harding reports from Harare on the uneasy mood among the white population and the MDC party as President Robert Mugabe says he's ready for another term. |
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| Can US broker Middle East peace? |
| Joe Biden is in the region to encourage talks between the Palestinians and Israel. What can be achieved? |
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Nicola Wolverson
Siobhan Oerlemans
