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Rescuers search for survivors at the site of a bomb attack near the new Finance Ministry in Baghdad

Scores killed in Baghdad bombings

A series of car bombings kills at least 127 people in Baghdad in what officials say is a bid to destabilise Iraq.

Violence returns to Iraq

Witness accounts

In pictures: Baghdad blasts

McChrystal backs US troop surge

The top US commander in Afghanistan says there are "no silver bullets" but that the US troop surge means success is achievable.

Draft text divides climate summit

Documents leaked at the UN climate summit reveal divisions between nations over the shape of a possible new deal.

VIDEO NEWS

Man wrestles gun from assailant

Is this rocket ship your ride into space?

Chinese activist living in 'airport limbo'

Queen and a Lady: Gaga meets monarch

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Armed robber?

Nigeria police said to kill innocents like Emmanuel, 13

All in the name

Which single person best sums up the decade?

Chilean persidential candiate marco Enriquez-Ominami in a photo from November 2009

Scene-stealer?

Outsider blows Chile's election wide open

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BUSINESS

Darling 'set for bank bonus tax'

Greek stocks fall 6% on debt fear

Japan in $81bn stimulus package

TECHNOLOGY

Measures target child web safety

Cash to get next million online

Science goes back to basics on AI

ENTERTAINMENT

Friends 'worried' about Michael

Al Pacino returns to Shylock role

HEALTH

Loneliness 'raises cancer risk'

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Science body confirms review

This decade 'warmest on record'

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AFRICA

Guinea junta arrests 'plotters'

Nigeria police overwhelm morgue

AMERICAS

Honduras anti-drugs chief killed

US to pay Native Americans $1.4bn

ASIA-PACIFIC

Cambodia jails Thai in spying row

Students killed in China stampede

EUROPE

Former SS member admits killings

Iraqis top of EU list for asylum

MIDDLE EAST

Iranian scientist 'held by US'

UK spy chief tackled on Iraq WMD

SOUTH ASIA

Attacks on Pakistan city kill 12

Pakistan stars to miss IPL again

NEWS FROM THE UK

100th Afghanistan fatality named

The UK soldier who became the 100th to die in Afghanistan in 2009 is named as 23-year-old L/Cpl Adam Drane.

'Fiasco' of student loan failures

Steel job loss area gets £60m aid

Disarray over child flu jab plan

Plans to vaccinate healthy children against swine flu are in disarray after talks with doctors broke down.

Party tributes as Morgan resigns

Woodward: No Stormont suspension

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City of lights

Lyon's acclaimed Fete des Lumieres, in pictures

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The burger chain encouraging diners to eat less meat

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