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A landslide derails a regional train in northern Italy, killing at least 11 people and injuring 25, Italian media say. | | The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski is to lie in state in Warsaw as the nation mourns the victims of the Smolensk air crash. |
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A leading judge has been shot dead at his apartment building in the Russian capital, Moscow court officials have said. | | President Obama says the biggest threat to US security is the possibility of terrorists obtaining a nuclear weapon. |
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The value of the euro jumps sharply after the eurozone agrees details of a multi-billion loan package to debt-ridden Greece. | | The Real IRA admits planting a car bomb which exploded outside MI5's Northern Ireland headquarters. |
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Actress Dixie Carter, who received an Emmy nomination for her role in Desperate Housewives, dies at the age of 70. | | What are believed to be the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents are discovered in the Caribbean. |
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A 13-year-old American boy is to try and become the youngest person to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. | | Indian tennis star Sania Mirza marries Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik after last week's hiccup over his divorce. |
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An emotional Phil Mickelson dedicates his third Masters win to his wife, who has been battling breast cancer. | | World number one Tiger Woods says he plans to take another break from the sport after coming back from his self-imposed exile to play the Masters. |
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Will US tabloid win Pulitzer over John Edwards scandal? | | Swiss banking giant UBS says it expects to report a profit of 2.5bn Swiss francs for in the first three months of the year. |
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Mobile phone providers begin bidding in Europe's first major auction of fourth generation (4G) spectrum. | | Lending by Chinese banks falls sharply in the first three months of the year after the government clamped down on new loans. |
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Facebook executives are to meet the head of UK child protection organisation Ceop to discuss safety on the website. | | Political parties are making poor use of the internet to engage voters and find out key issues, a survey suggests. |
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MI5 is ditching staff who lack computer skills in a programme of compulsory and voluntary redundancies. | | Actor Charlie Sheen says his hit sitcom Two And A Half Men could end after its current run. |
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The BBC escapes censure after Radio 5 live listeners heard Rage Against the Machine swearing in a live performance at 0900. | | The chances of forging a binding agreement on climate change are small, says the UN climate chief at a meeting in Copenhagen. |
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Australia will press charges after a Chinese ship ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef after straying off its permitted route. | | Typing your child's medical problem into Google is unlikely to deliver good advice, say UK researchers who found only government sites were accurate. |
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South African police investigate allegations that Eugene Terreblanche committed sexual assault prior to his murder. | | General Ibrahim Babangida declares his intention to run in Nigerian presidential elections due in 2011. |
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The Brazilian rancher accused of plotting the murder of American nun Dorothy Stang is to appear in court for a retrial. | | Colombian pop star Shakira meets young survivors of the Haiti earthquake, as her charity prepares to build a school on the Caribbean island. |
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A Chinese coal ship that ran aground near the Great Barrier Reef sparking fears of an ecological disaster is refloated. | | Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev says he will defy attempts to arrest him, at a rally in his village. |
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An Iranian and a Tajik are jailed for 25 years in Dubai over the 2009 killing of a Chechen military commander. | | Hungary's conservative opposition party secures a convincing victory in parliamentary elections, ousting the Socialists. |
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Israel is set to impose a military order which some fear could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank. | | At least 21 supporters of Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei are deported from Kuwait, rights groups say. |
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Gordon Brown pledges not to raise income tax but does not rule out a rise in VAT, as he launches Labour's manifesto. | | Jack Tweed, the widower of reality TV star Jade Goody, raped a woman while a friend held the door shut, a court hears. |
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The average top manager of an NHS Trust in England received a pay rise double that of nursing staff in 2008-09, figures suggest. | | Motorists are warned of severe delays on the M4 in Wiltshire after a transporter carrying pigs overturns. |
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