| US attacks East Jerusalem plans |
| US Vice-President Joe Biden condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem. |
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| Dutch bishops order abuse inquiry |
| Dutch bishops order an inquiry into alleged sexual abuses of children by Catholic priests, threatening a new scandal.
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| US apology for Gaddafi comments |
| The US apologises for comments made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland. |
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| Ban honours UN's Haiti 'heroes' |
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon pays an emotional tribute at a memorial service to the 101 UN staff who died in the Haiti earthquake. |
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| Irish 'plot to kill cartoonist' |
| Seven people are arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad. |
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| Nigeria 'ignored attack warnings' |
| A Nigerian governor accuses the army of ignoring warnings of attacks, as communal tension remains high near Jos. |
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| Israel and Syria in nuclear bids |
| Israel and Syria both tell a conference in Paris they want to use nuclear power to generate electricity. |
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| 'Ransom bid' in Cyprus body theft |
| A ransom was demanded for the stolen and now-recovered body of Cyprus ex-President Papadopoulos, a minister says. |
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| Producer admits Letterman blackmail |
| A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs. |
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| 'Bottled ghosts' attract New Zealand auction buyers |
| Two glass bottles said to contain the ghosts are bought for NZ$2,000 in an online auction in New Zealand. |
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| Women who drink wine in moderation stay slim, says study |
| Women can enjoy a tipple and stay slim, according to a study that shows moderate drinkers gain less weight than teetotallers. |
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| Bendtner shines as Arsenal progress |
| Nicklas Bendtner silences his recent critics with a hat-trick as Arsenal see off Porto in emphatic fashion to reach the Champions League quarter-finals. |
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| Fiorentina 3-2 B Munich (4-4) |
| Bayern Munich reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League on away goals after losing 3-2 to Fiorentina. |
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| Separation fear |
| Families fight 'racist' Israeli marriage and citizenship law |
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| Thin red line |
| Lone stand of anti-Taliban militia in Pakistan |
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| In pictures |
| Togo in trouble as election protests continue to rage |
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| Earth Watch |
| Whales and tuna tied up in Eurotangle |
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| Hewitt on Europe |
| An EMF? Hard to set up and no cure for euro woes |
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| Throwing arm |
| The soldier who chucked a grenade back at the Taliban |
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| Somali hope for Chandlers release |
| Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed says efforts are being made to release a UK couple held by pirates as soon as possible. |
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| Row over exhuming Rwanda leader |
| The son of Rwanda's first President, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, protests at orders to exhume his father's remains. |
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| EU concern over end of tanker bid |
| Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal. |
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| Oscars 'most watched since 2005' |
| This year's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles was the most watched in the US for five years, early figures suggest. |
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| Raids 'kill Indonesia militants' |
| Indonesian security forces kill three alleged militants and investigate whether one is key Bali bomb suspect Dulmatin. |
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| Japan confirms secret nuclear pact |
| Japan confirms the existence of a secret Cold War pact allowing nuclear-armed US vessels to call at its ports. |
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| Third of EU emissions 'imported' |
| Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries. |
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| Obama backs Greece on speculators |
| President Barack Obama has 'responded positively' to calls to clamp down on market speculators, says the Greek PM after talks. |
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| Israeli 'spymaster' dies aged 82 |
| A former Israeli spy who played a key role in Africa, the Middle East and the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal has died.
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| Iraq election voter turnout '62%' |
| The voter turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62%, officials say, despite attacks that killed 38 people. |
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| Indian MPs approve women's bill |
| India's upper house sees a second day of uproar as it backs a bill to reserve a third of all parliamentary seats for women. |
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| Bangladesh 'ignores' refugees |
| Bangladesh's government is ignoring the plight of thousands of starving Burmese refugees, a US medical charity warns. |
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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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