Brazil president 'proud' of protests
46 min 7 sec ago
Dilma Rousseff says she is proud so many people are fighting for a better country, in her first public comments since mass protests on Monday.
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Campbell-Brown given provisional ban
47 min 27 sec ago
Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica is provisionally suspended from competition after testing positive for a banned substance.
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US to open direct Taliban talks
1 hour 40 min ago
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan, senior White House officials announce.
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Chile to extradite Argentine judge
1 hour 40 min ago
The Chilean Supreme Court approves the extradition of former Argentine judge Otilio Romano, accused of human rights abuses under the military government.
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'Excessive' use of face-down restraint
1 hour 46 min ago
Ministers are considering a ban on face-down restraint in English mental hospitals as figures show the technique is being widely used.
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1 hour 58 min ago
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Montreal mayor resigns after arrest
2 hours 1 min ago
Montreal's Mayor Michael Applebaum resigns, a day after his arrest on 14 fraud charges, the latest scandal to hit Canadian local politics.
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Pakistan funeral bomb kills 28
2 hours 1 min ago
At least 28 people, including a newly-elected lawmaker, are killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Mali signs peace deal with Tuareg
2 hours 2 min ago
Mali's government signs a peace deal with Tuareg rebels to end conflict in the north in the run-up to elections next month.
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Venus Williams to miss Wimbledon
2 hours 28 min ago
Five-time singles champion Venus Williams is forced to pull out of Wimbledon because of a back injury.
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VIDEO: Camera pioneers' work goes on display
2 hours 33 min ago
Portraits by 19th century photographers Henry and Charles Meade are subjects of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
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Chrysler agrees to recall 2.7m Jeeps
3 hours 37 min ago
Chrysler agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps that could be at risk of fuel tank fires, after initially refusing a US government request to do so.
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Deloitte gets one-year New York ban
4 hours 16 sec ago
Deloitte is suspended for one year from doing consulting work in New York after regulators criticised its work at Standard Chartered on anti-money laundering issues.
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Italy U21 2-4 Spain U21
4 hours 31 min ago
Thiago Alcantara grabs a first-half hat-trick as Spain outclass Italy to retain the European Under-21 Championship in Israel.
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Italy school bomber gets life term
4 hours 44 min ago
An Italian court sentences to life in prison a man who carried out a school bomb attack in 2012, which killed a teenage girl and injured nine others.
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VIDEO: Lawrence concert line-up unveiled
4 hours 45 min ago
Twenty years after the teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in London, details of a star-studded concert in his memory have been unveiled.
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Huge 'holograms' created for doctors
5 hours 2 min ago
Two junior doctors develop giant 3D animations of human body parts to make medics' lectures more memorable.
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Vietnamese crew held in Philippines
5 hours 5 min ago
Eighteen Vietnamese crew members are detained after their cargo ship allegedly hit a coral reef in the central Philippines, the coastguard says.
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Russian Duma backs gay adoption ban
5 hours 18 min ago
MPs in Moscow back a bill banning adoption of Russian orphans by foreign gay couples and by foreign singles from countries allowing gay marriage.
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