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- Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'
- Israel's military says it has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons bound for Hezbollah.
- CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap
- An Italian judge convicts 23 Americans and two Italian secret agents over the CIA kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
- German fury over GM Opel U-turn
- General Motors' decision to hang on to Opel and Vauxhall is welcomed in the UK but met with anger in Germany.
- Iran police clash with protesters
- Police clash with opposition supporters during a rally in the Iranian capital, Tehran, witnesses and state media say.
- Palestinians in statehood warning
- Palestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Jewish settlements continue, their chief negotiator says.
- Democrats play down vote defeats
- US Democrats reject claims their defeat in two state polls reflects badly on President Barack Obama, a year after his election.
- Intel in threats and bribery suit
- Intel is hit with an anti-competition lawsuit in the US, accused of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales.
- Taiwanese puppets burned in fire
- Hundreds of rare antique glove puppets from Taiwan are destroyed in a warehouse fire.
- Microsoft reveals new-look MSN
- Microsoft has announced a major redesign of its MSN.com web portal, designed to drive traffic to search engine Bing.
- Obama father 'abusive', says president's half-brother
- One of US President Barack Obama's half-brothers speaks about their "abusive" father at the launch of his first novel.
- Is this the greatest scientific invention?
- The public votes the X-ray machine as the best invention over the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's rocket.
- Renault considers Formula 1 exit
- Renault will consider pulling out of Formula 1 at an emergency board meeting in Paris on Wednesday.
- Live text - Wednesday football
- Barcelona are up against Rubin Kazan in the Champions League, as Liverpool prepare for their crucial game in Lyon, with Arsenal and Rangers also in action later.
- Midwest migrants
- Two towns, two very different faces of the US heartland
- Matt Frei's diary
- Should cautious Obama rediscover poetic voice?
- Breathing in
- The purest and the most polluted air, in sound and pictures
- Sex jokes
- Vietnamese use humour to discuss a taboo subject
- Triumph, disaster
- US voters split on Obama, a year after his election
- Lessons learned
- The BBC Box returns from a year of globe trotting
- E Guinea coup plotter overjoyed at return
- Former British soldier Simon Mann, jailed for a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, says it is "wonderful" to be back in the UK.
- Banned Kenya official 'to sue US'
- Kenya's attorney general admits the US has imposed a travel ban on him, and threatens legal action for defamation.
- Ohio rapist charged with murder
- US police charge a convicted rapist with five counts of murder, as more human remains are found at his Ohio home.
- Japan 'has no time' to meet US
- Japan says plans for a meeting between its foreign minister and US secretary of state are scrapped for lack of time.
- US diplomats meet Burmese leaders
- US envoys meet both Burma's PM and detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the highest level bilateral contact in over 10 years.
- Vietnam floods leave dozens dead
- About 90 people are now known to have died in severe flooding triggered by a tropical storm, Vietnamese officials say.
- UK opposition sets out EU policy
- Tory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum.
- Border deal boosts Croatia EU bid
- Slovenia and Croatia agree to allow an international panel to resolve a border row that has delayed Croatia's EU membership bid.
- UN debates divisive Gaza report
- The UN general assembly begins debating a resolution on a controversial report into alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas.
- Yemen rebels 'seize Saudi area'
- Rebels from northern Yemen fight their way into Saudi Arabia and hold a mountainous border region.
- Taliban link to shootings probed
- The Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to kill five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown says.
- Karzai rival says poll victory 'illegal'
- Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says Hamid Karzai's re-election "has no legal basis".
- 'Big guns' herald Guinea's crisis
- Mark Doyle reports on the rising tensions on the streets of Guinea's capital, Conakry, a month after protesters were killed by government troops.
- East Germany answers back
- Twenty years after German reunification, William Horsley finds West Germans are now seeing aspects of the old East German order in a more positive light.
- What next for Afghanistan?
- The former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has said Hamid Karzai's re-election "has no legal basis". What now for the country?
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