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Centre-left politician Enrico Letta is to become Italy's prime minister, after being asked by the president to form a new government to end the political paralysis.
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EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton tells the BBC the Serbian and Kosovan leaders were "brave" to normalise ties, after months of arduous negotiations.
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A civil trial in which Michael Jackson's family is suing concert promoters AEG is to begin on Monday, court officials confirm.
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US officials are in the Russian republic of Dagestan to speak to the parents of Boston bomb suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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Jia Jiuxiang dies after being taken in for questioning by Communist party's anti-corruption investigatorsA senior official at a city court in central China has died under mysterious circumstances, his body bruised after 11 days in the custody of anti-corruption investigators of the ruling Communist party, according...(more)
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Steven Spielberg leads a star-studded Cannes jury, which also includes Lynne Ramsay, Daniel Auteuil and Vidya BalanMight it be the most star-studded Cannes jury in history? The world's most famous film festival has announced that this year's president, Steven Spielberg, will be joined by a cavalcade...(more)
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Watchdog also says US billionaire's Scottish golf resort could not substantiate claim that tourism will be harmed by turbinesAn ad campaign run by Donald Trump's Scottish golf resort attacking plans for a windfarm has been banned on the grounds that it was misleading.The US billionaire has...(more)
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Police take on armed gang 'planning terrorist activities' who took community workers hostage in Xinjiang, say reportsFifteen police officers and community workers have been killed and six "gangsters" shot dead in a clash in Kashgar, in China's north-western region of Xinjiang, according to official media.Community workers...(more)
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Scientists researching diseases such as cancer are impeded by having to pay companies who own specific gene patentsYou carry a set of instructions in every cell, encrypted in DNA. Your genome, 3 billion letters of genetic code, is not only unique to you now, but is...(more)
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A new micro kinetic charger is in the works that will charge your iPhone, just by shaking it.
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President Thein Sein frees 93 people, believed to include 59 jailed as dissidents, after EU lifts sanctionsBurma's president has pardoned 93 prisoners, including at least 59 political detainees, a day after the European Union lifted sanctions.The pardon was announced on state television on Tuesday amid renewed...(more)
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Hundreds of people remain trapped under rubble at eight-storey building north of Dhaka that housed textile factoriesAt least 76 garment workers have been confirmed dead in Bangladesh after an eight-storey building containing clothing manufacturing units collapsed.Mohammed Neazuddin, the health secretary, confirmed the death toll and police...(more)
