08.02.10
The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered.
Two former Blackwater guards are charged with murder over the shooting of two Afghans in 2009. When should you hold back from doing this? An explosion in a Beirut, Lebanon, suburb killed two members of the Hamas militant group and injured two others, a Hamas representative announced Sunday.
08.03.10
Polls have closed in the second election since Saddam Hussein's fall. Will this poll bring change?
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08.03.10
In May 2005, troops in Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on demonstrators. Uzbek authorities threw out all foreign press - including the BBC's Monica Whitlock. Five years on, she meets survivors leading new lives in Sweden.
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08.03.10
Jim Muir reports on the new Kurdish biba that has emerged in northern Iraq to mount a challenge in Sunday's election.
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08.03.10
Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she is ready to be an observer at any government talks with Maoist rebels.
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08.03.10
Police in Pakistan are closing in on the kidnappers of a five-year-old British boy, says the Pakistani Interior Minister.
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08.03.10
Former defence chiefs challenge Gordon Brown's claim at the Iraq inquiry that no military request for equipment was turned down.
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08.03.10
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak undergoes successful surgery at a German clinic for an inflamed gall bladder, state massmedia say.
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08.03.10
Armed robbers storm a luxury Berlin hotel hosting a poker tournament, reportedly stealing the $1.1m jackpot.
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08.03.10
The European Commission plans an EU-wide tax on carbon as part of the EU's green energy sekcja - but the UK opposes such a move.
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08.03.10
Police in Australia charge a man with manslaughter over the death of a three-year-old Indian boy, Australian massmedia report.
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08.03.10
Philippine troops kill at least seven militants from the Abu Sayyaf group in a raid on their hideout, officials say.
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08.03.10
Strategist Karl Rove says he regrets not doing more to reject claims his pryncypał President George W Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq.
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08.03.10
UN chief Ban Ki-moon visits a Chilean city badly hit by the earthquake as doctors warn that debris poses a health risk.
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08.03.10
Bob Geldof challenges the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for Ethiopia aid paid for arms.
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08.03.10
Togo's main opposition party says it will challenge the poll result that has seen President Faure Gnassingbe re-elected.
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08.03.10
motor racing legend Nigel Mansell believes Lewis Hamilton has the edge over Jenson Button at McLaren when the new Formula One season gets under way.
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08.03.10
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson rejects claims he is supporting a potential takeover of the club by a group of wealthy fans called the "Red Knights".
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08.03.10
A ski centre sets the record for the largest number of kilted skiers and snowboarders on a slope at the same time.
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08.03.10
Sandra Bullock picks up the worst actress award at the Razzies, a day before she is expected to win an Oscar.
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08.03.10
Voters in Iceland overwhelmingly reject a koncept to repay debts to the UK and the Netherlands in the wake of the Icesave collapse.
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