| Levees 'cannot save New Orleans'
April 24, 2009 at 6:28 pm
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|  Storm defences built after Hurricane Katrina will not be enough to save New Orleans from future floods, a report says. |
| G7 offers hope crisis is easing
April 24, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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|  Finance ministers from the G7 say the world economy is showing positive signs but warn the financial crisis is not over. |
| Experts probe deadly Mexico flu
April 24, 2009 at 5:46 pm
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| | Health experts investigate a suspected new strain of swine flu that may have killed as many as 60 people in Mexico. |   |
| Sex row Paraguay leader to stay
April 24, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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|  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former Catholic bishop, refuses to resign over paternity claims by three women. |
| Divided world
April 24, 2009 at 4:37 pm
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|  Global splits highlighted at UN racism conference |
| Obama marks Armenian 'atrocity'
April 24, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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|  The US president refrains from calling the killing of Armenians in World War I "genocide" despite using the term previously. |
| US to issue 'prison abuse' photos
April 24, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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|  The US is about to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials say. |
| Symonds knock steers Aussies home
April 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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|  Andrew Symonds guides Australia to a series-levelling win courtesy of a six-wicket win over Pakistan in Dubai. |
| 'No pause' in Sri Lanka fighting
April 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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|  The Sri Lankan army says there will be no more pauses in fighting against Tamil Tiger rebels, despite calls by the UN. |
| Two charged over body parts death
April 24, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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|  Two people are charged with the murder of 49-year-old Jeffrey Howe, whose body parts were found across two counties. |
| Armstrong escapes test sanctions
April 24, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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|  Lance Armstrong's hopes of riding in the Tour de France improve after anti-doping officials choose not to seek sanctions over a disputed drug test. |
| France sanctions 'sex case' judge
April 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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|  A judge at the centre of one of France's biggest miscarriages of justice is reprimanded by a panel looking into his conduct. |
| Blast carnage at shrine in Iraq
April 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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|  At least 60 people die as female suicide bombers attack Baghdad's main Shia shrine, after one of the deadliest days in Iraq this year. |
| Naked Japanese singer apologises
April 24, 2009 at 11:59 am
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|  A Japanese singer who was arrested after being found drunk and naked in a park says sorry for his "shameful" conduct. |
| Russia military spy boss 'sacked'
April 24, 2009 at 11:56 am
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|  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismisses the head of the country's powerful GRU military intelligence service. |
| Chinese school admits star scam after football triumph
April 24, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  A Chinese principal admits the school football team which won an international contest was stuffed with national squad players. |
| Somali cleric demands AU leaves
April 24, 2009 at 10:59 am
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|  Hardline Islamist cleric Sheikh Aweys calls for African Union troops to leave Somalia before he talks to the government. |
| No through road
April 24, 2009 at 10:41 am
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|  Grim scars on closed Armenia-Turkey border |
| Starting over
April 24, 2009 at 10:20 am
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|  Why the US and Russia want a new nuclear treaty |
| Ford loss smaller than expected
April 24, 2009 at 10:06 am
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|  Carmaker Ford reports better-than-expected first-quarter results and says it does not intend to take government aid. |
| Flintoff to undergo knee surgery
April 24, 2009 at 10:06 am
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|  England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff returns to England from playing in the Indian Premier League in South Africa to undergo surgery on his right knee. |
| Day in pictures
April 24, 2009 at 9:35 am
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|  Eye-catching images from around the world |
| Rosberg quickest as Alonso shines
April 24, 2009 at 8:52 am
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| | Williams' Nico Rosberg clocks the quickest time of Friday's intriguing practice sessions in the Bahrain heat. |   |
| Facebook users say 'Yes' to changes
April 24, 2009 at 8:42 am
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|  Users vote for proposed changes to Facebook's terms which give them more control over data posted to the site. |
| Railroad reality
April 24, 2009 at 7:50 am
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|  Is there a high-speed future for the US network? |
| Internet blacklist
April 24, 2009 at 7:50 am
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| | The watchdog which hunts down abusive images |
| Growing threat
April 24, 2009 at 7:32 am
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| | Pakistan in disarray over ways to tackle the Taleban |
| Australian cookie chain threatens to sue on Krispy Kreme recipe
April 24, 2009 at 7:05 am
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|  An Australian cookie chain threatens legal action against US chain Krispy Kreme for stealing a biscuit name and recipe. |
| Fury over Gurkha settlement plan
April 24, 2009 at 7:01 am
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|  Campaigners react angrily to "truly appalling" new rules on the eligibility of Gurkha veterans to settle in the UK. |
| Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities
April 24, 2009 at 6:50 am
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|  Yahoo is closing its GeoCities web hosting site - that allowed people to set up personal web pages - it bought it for $3.6bn in 1999. |
| Taleban announce key withdrawal
April 24, 2009 at 6:42 am
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|  Pakistan's Taleban say they will withdraw from a district where they had consolidated power just 100km from Islamabad. |
| Spain's jobless rate soars to 17%
April 24, 2009 at 6:41 am
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|  Two million people have lost their job in Spain in the past year taking the country's jobless total to more than four million. |
| Israel 'risking support on Iran'
April 24, 2009 at 6:06 am
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|  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns Israel it risks losing Arab support on Iran over its stance on the Palestinian issue. |
| Pizzeria children 'abandoned over money'
April 24, 2009 at 5:50 am
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|  A German couple who left three children in an Italian pizzeria have told police they fled because they had no money, reports say. |
| Serbia jails police for massacre
April 24, 2009 at 5:11 am
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|  A Belgrade war crimes court jails four former policemen for killing 50 Kosovo Albanian civilians in 1999. |
| Titan prisons plans 'abandoned'
April 24, 2009 at 5:05 am
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|  The government is set to abandon plans for three 2,500-place Titan prisons, the BBC understands. |
| ANC gains over two-thirds of vote
April 24, 2009 at 5:04 am
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|  The African National Congress is heading for a decisive victory in South Africa's election, taking more than a two-thirds majority of the vote. |
| Music giants' 'fortunes dwindle'
April 24, 2009 at 4:58 am
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|  The wealth of most of Britain's top music millionaires has fallen by at least 10%, according to the Sunday Times' annual rich list. |
| Appeal in Australia nail gun case
April 24, 2009 at 4:38 am
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|  Australian police release an X-ray of the skull of a Chinese man shot repeatedly with a nail gun, in an appeal to catch his killers. |
| Tests to find Mumbai suspect's age
April 24, 2009 at 4:22 am
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|  An Indian court orders tests to determine the age of the leading suspect in last November's deadly Mumbai (Bombay) attacks. |
| Ill Leno cancels taping of show
April 24, 2009 at 4:16 am
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|  US TV talk show host Jay Leno is admitted to hospital, forcing the cancellation of his programme for the first time in 17 years. | |
Scientists from Glasgow University have created a microchip which can detect malaria within minutes.
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