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+ Iranian protests 'will go ahead' + Protests against Iran's disputed presidential elections will go on, sources say, defying the country's supreme ...

+ US admits Afghan airstrike errors + US forces in Afghanistan carried out deadly airstrikes without following their own rules, a Pentagon inquiry ...

+ Argentine golden shipwreck found + A vessel which sank carrying $18m in gold and silver ingots is found in the Magellan Straits off the coast of ...

+ NZ jury jails father of 'Pumpkin' + A New Zealand jury convicts the father of an abandoned girl, known as Pumpkin, of murdering his ...

+ Stanford charged with fraud in US + Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford is charged over a $7bn scheme to defraud investors, the US justice department ...

+ No charge for Obama seat senator + Illinois Senator Roland Burris, appointed to fill President Barack Obama's vacant seat, will not be charged with ...

+ Somali MP gunned down in capital + A Somali politician is shot dead in Mogadishu, the government says, the third killing of a public figure in as many ...

+ Colombia coca-growing 'declines' + Colombian cultivation of coca, the raw material for cocaine, declined significantly in 2008, a United Nations report ...

+ Greece to unveil Acropolis museum + Athens' long-awaited Acropolis Museum opens, a move Greece hopes will put pressure on the UK to return Parthenon ...

+ Schwarzenegger tweets about plane emergency + Arnold Schwarzenegger's jet makes an emergency landing in LA, but the California governor seemed unfazed by the ...

+ Alleged muggers tracked down in Netherlands with aid of Google + Police in the Netherlands arrest twin brothers after a boy they are alleged to have mugged said he saw a picture of them on an ...

+ Live - British Grand Prix practice + Final practice for the British Grand Prix gets under way at 1000 BST at Silverstone as the budget cap row continues to rumble ...

+ Glover snatches lead at Bethpage + American Lucas Glover surges into a one-shot lead over countryman Ricky Barnes at the end of day two of the US Open at ...

+ Star-crossed love + Romeo and Juliet tragedy in Indian ...

+ Sighs of relief + EU secures 11th hour deal on Lisbon ...

+ When pilots die + Co-pilots are there to take over, says safety ...

+ In pictures + Events around the world as Aung San Suu Kyi turns ...

+ Hunt for answers + Will the Air France plane crash ever be ...

+ Mardell's Europe + Why is the UK nervous about EU watchdog ...

+ Zimbabwe PM urges UK exiles home + Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai is to meet exiles living in the UK to urge them to return home and help rebuild the ...

+ Talks due on Madagascar + Southern African states are to hold talks on the political deadlock in Madagascar, after a previous effort ...

+ Apple boss 'had liver transplant' + Apple boss Steve Jobs has received a liver transplant and is expected to return to work later this month, a report ...

+ UN calls for Peru clashes probe + The UN envoy for indigenous people urges Peru to launch an independent probe into recent deadly Amazon ...

+ World hunger 'hits one billion' + One billion people are hungry around the world, with nearly two-thirds of those living in the Asia-Pacific region, says the ...

+ Protests mark Suu Kyi's birthday + The 64th birthday of Burma's jailed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is marked with protests and calls for her ...

+ EU agrees Irish treaty compromise + EU leaders agree to guarantees to enable the Lisbon Treaty to win a "Yes" vote in a second Irish ...

+ Car bomb kills Spanish officer + A Spanish police inspector dies in a car bomb attack in the northern city of Bilbao being blamed on Basque militant group ...

+ Iraq karate coach shot and killed + The coach of the Iraq's national karate team is shot dead by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi police ...

+ Egypt suffer Confed Cup theft + Police in Johannesburg are investigating the theft of US$2,400 from the rooms of five unnamed Egypt ...

+ Pakistan's Swat offensive 'nears end' + Pakistan's military offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat valley is nearly over, the defence minister ...

+ Bangladesh refugee concerns + Thousands of Rohingya refugees are at risk of being forcibly removed from camps in Bangladesh, an aid agency says. ...

+ Pakistan's 'rollercoaster ride' + As Pakistan is poised for a possible turning point in the fight against militancy, Barbara Plett reflects on her four years reporting ...

+ Lisbon's light-touch drugs policy + Eight years after Portugal decriminalised all recreational drugs, Claudia Hammond visits Lisbon to see how effective the policy has ...

+ What can Iran protests achieve? + Protests against Iran's presidential elections will go ahead - despite opposition from the Supreme Leader. What will the protests ...