25 October

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Moscow hostage crisis
In a Moscow theatre the clock is ticking. The Chechen rebels say they'll start killing their hostages.

How will the Russian authorities respond?

EU expansion
The Franco-German axis is back and the path is clear for EU expansion. But with the Union's economic growth rates bumping along at such dismally low levels, why on earth do the 10 applicant countries want to join? Economics correspondent Stephanie Flanders investigated.

"Yank-hating"
And just why do the French hate the USA? Three out of the top ten selling books in France this month indulge in the frenzied sport of "Yank-hating". Jon Sopel has been taking the pulse of the Gallic nation in bid to diagnose the causes of this febrile outbreak.

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