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Former US President George W Bush's advisor, Karl Rove, says he is proud of waterboarding as he believes it prevented attacks. | | First results from Iraq's election suggest a tight contest may be developing between PM Nouri Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi. |
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Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament votes to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in WWI. | | Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report. |
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Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man. | | Ivory Coast and Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is named African Footballer of the Year. |
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Greek public and transport services grind to a halt and clashes break out during a third strike over austerity measures. | | Rock legends Pink Floyd win a court battle with record label EMI over online royalties and how their music is sold online. |
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A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school's prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend | | Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say. |
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Liverpool face an uphill task to progress from the last 16 of the Europa League after Eden Hazard's goal gives a lively Lille side a 1-0 first-leg lead. | | England will make a last-minute call on the fitness of Stuart Broad for the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong. |
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Pressure on UK after arrest of ex-Bosnian president | | US and Israel dodge settlement confrontation |
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New York and London have been ranked as the joint-top global financial centres according to new research. | | US President Barack Obama has urged China to change its currency strategy to help re-balance the global economy. |
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Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK. | | The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband. |
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Lost Boys actor Corey Haim was a "tormented soul", his friend and fellow actor Corey Feldman says. | | R&B star Taio Cruz sets the record for the biggest jump to the top of US Billboard Hot 100 for an act's first charting single. |
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The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists. | | The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body. |
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Fluctuations in blood pressure could be more important than high readings as a warning sign for stroke, say researchers. | | Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last week's violence near Jos, where women and children were massacred. |
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US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli settlement plans. | | 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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Burma's leaders formally annul the National League for Democracy's 1990 election win, as more details of new poll laws emerge. | | Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan. |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament and one of his loyalists is confirmed as PM. | | A Stockholm court rules a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland for trial over the theft of a sign from Auschwitz. |
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Hamas releases a British journalist it had held for a month in Gaza, saying at a news conference that it suspects him of being a spy. | | At least one person is killed in clashes between police and separatists in southern Yemen. |
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Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad. | | Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say. |
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Members of groups which may promote racism, such as the BNP, will not be banned from teaching in England, says a review. | | Police arrest an 18-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter after a man collapsed and died outside his home in Greater Manchester. |
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The Chancellor Alistair Darling warns not to expect a "giveaway" when the Budget is announced later this month. | | The amount of money paid as public sector pensions could more than triple in the next 50 years, says the National Audit Office. |
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Three MPs and a peer tell a court they are not guilty of charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims. | | Justice Secretary Jack Straw meets the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of her son's killers. |