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Soldiers inspect a burnt-out truck reportedly left by the kidnappers

Colombian governor's body found

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accuses rebels of killing a regional governor less than a day after they kidnapped him.

Rebel groups 'to unite'

Q&A: Colombia's civil conflict

Colombia's armed groups

'Clashes' at Iran cleric ceremony

Police and opposition supporters clash in Iran during a memorial for a leading dissident cleric, an opposition website says.

Plane overshoots Jamaica runway

More than 40 people are hurt as an American Airlines plane overshoots a runway in Kingston, Jamaica, officials say.

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Europe freeze continues as more die

Living mannequin baffles shoppers

Fears grow over Sudan conflict

Prince William sleeps rough in London

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Take the 'A' train

Israeli professor gives lessons on the move

Climate sculpture in Copenhagen (Image: AFP)

Climate meltdown

Reasons why the Copenhagen summit failed

Biswas on India

Have protest fasts become a form of political blackmail?

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US growth rate revised downwards

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Venezuela orders power rationing

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Microsoft Word sales ban upheld

Firefox for mobile ready to debut

BBC net TV plan gets green light

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Aerosmith's Tyler goes into rehab

Murphy husband says she was ill

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Low hormones 'make birth harder'

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Bird-like dinosaur was 'venomous'

Soyuz docked with space station

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Niger anger over Ecowas 'snub'

Ethiopia death sentences for plot

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US woman held over Obama 'threat'

CIA used Lithuania 'black sites'

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Kyrgyz reporter death probe call

Man jailed for eating rare tiger

EUROPE

Auschwitz theft 'ordered abroad'

'Legal high' drugs banned in UK

MIDDLE EAST

World 'failed Gaza over blockade'

Freed Iranian convicts are hanged

SOUTH ASIA

India seeks Maoist 'negotiations'

Afghan senator killed by police

NEWS FROM THE UK

Icy conditions cause travel chaos

Thousands continue to suffer travel disruption in icy conditions, as two women die in a coach crash in Cornwall.

Only well-off will marry - Tories

Teenage killings in UK drop 30%

University funding cut by £533m

Lord Mandelson announces cuts to university funding of £533m in the annual grant letter to academic institutions.

Adams' brother hands himself in

A&E wait tactics 'under attack'

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HIV babies

Romanians come to terms with their difficult childhoods

A gay activist in Uganda wearing a mask (photo: Katherine Elaine Roubos)

Behind the mask

Gay Ugandans in fear over death penalty threat

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