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A prison bus in Pakistan has been targeted by a car bomb.

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has arrived in Ukraine to assemble what he calls the "widest possible coalition against Russian aggression".

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The UK foreign secretary has called on the EU to initiate "hard-headed engagement" with Russia in response to its actions in Georgia.

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Sam Spencer, a super-delegate from Maine, introduces some of his colleagues at the convention.

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Thai riot police have surrounded the prime minister's compound to try to evict anti-government protesters.

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Talks are continuing between Iraq and America to finalise an agreement on the presence of US forces in the country.

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Police in Israel believe a missing four-year-old girl may have been murdered by her own relatives.

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The amount of opium being produced in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has increased significantly.

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Diners looking for a meal with a difference can enjoy a "Dinner in the Sky" high above Berlin on top of a crane.

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US President George W Bush has urged Russia not to recognise Georgia's two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.

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The candidate of Zimbabwe's opposition MDC has been elected speaker of parliament.

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Tests carried out on some locals who have regularly eaten fish from the river Rhone in France have shown high levels of toxicity in their blood.

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Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe lost out as an MDC party member was elected as parliamentary speaker.

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Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition in a row over reinstating judges.

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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir shot dead three people in clashes with protesters who defied a curfew.

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MDC chairman Lovemore Moyo became the first Zimbabwean opposition speaker since independence in 1980.

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Zimbabwe's parliament is due to be sworn in for the first time since March's disputed elections.

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At least 19 people have been injured during the annual running of the bulls in the Mexican city of Huamantla.

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Seven years after the defeat of the Taleban, the prospect of an education is still very slim for many Afghan children.

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Zimbabwe's parliament is due to be sworn in for the first time since March's disputed elections.

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A passenger jet carrying more than 80 people has crashed near the main airport in Kyrgyzstan.

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The leader of the main party in Pakistan's governing coalition has warned that the world is "losing the war" against Islamic militancy.

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Thousands of people celebrated in 2012 host city London as the Olympic flag was handed to Mayor Boris Johnson in Beijing.

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A US warship carrying a delivery of aid supplies has docked in the Georgian port of Batumi.

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Rescuers say there is little hope of saving several climbers swept away by an avalanche in France.

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A US warship has arrived in the Georgian port of Batumi carrying a delivery of aid supplies.

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A look at some of the iconic images from the Games of the 29th Olympiad staged in Beijing, China.

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A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial endurance record for a flight by an unmanned craft.

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Cuba may be famous for its old American cars but the country also has hundreds of vintage motorbikes.

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Benazir Bhutto's widow has agreed to run for the presidency of Pakistan, says his Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

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Pakistan's army says 35 militants have been killed in fighting following a bombing that killed six policemen.

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Russia says its plans to keep forces in the key Georgian port of Poti, sparking protests by local people.

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Rockers from around the world have taken to the stage at the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.

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At least seven people have been killed as tropical storm Fay continues to batter the US state of Florida.

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A woman who had the world's first partial face transplant in France has spoken publicly for the first time about her surgery.

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Russia has said it has fulfilled a pledge to withdraw its combat troops from Georgia in line with a ceasefire deal.

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Hundreds of thousands of people in Indian-administered Kashmir have held a massive rally calling for an end to Indian rule.

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Pakistan's biggest party, the PPP, nominates its leader to succeed Pervez Musharraf as the country's president.

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There are reports of a significant Russian troop movement out of Georgia to South Ossetia.