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New Hampshire polls suggest Barack Obama is surging ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democrat presidency race. | | Thousands of people remain stranded by some of the worst flooding in eastern Australia for 20 years. |
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Gunmen in Pakistan kill eight pro-government tribal leaders in the troubled South Waziristan region, officials say. | | The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months. |
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Italy's government is to hold an emergency meeting to find a solution to the rubbish crisis in Naples. | | Mikhail Saakashvili has been re-elected president of Georgia, preliminary official election results suggest. |
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Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat blames Israel for stepping up attacks ahead of the US president's visit. | | The way people interact with PCs will change dramatically in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates says. |
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India suspend their tour of Australia pending the outcome of an appeal against Harbhajan Singh's three-match ban. | | Embattled Luton put in a superb performance against a weakened Liverpool to earn an FA Cup third-round replay at Anfield on Tuesday week. |
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Top seed Rafael Nadal suffered a 6-0 6-1 defeat by Russia's Mikhail Youzhny in the Chennai Open final. | | A convoy of food trucks heads for two Kenyan towns hit by a humanitarian crisis in the wake of disputed polls. |
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Two Libyan diplomats are freed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after being briefly abducted by gunmen. | | Winter storms that have brought high winds, heavy snow and rain to the US west kill at least three people. |
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Pop star Britney Spears is no longer in hospital, according to a TV therapist who said he had visited her in Los Angeles. | | Hundreds of people in central China are expelled from the Communist Party for violating the one-child policy. |
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Indonesian ex-leader Suharto's health has shown some improvement but he remains critical, officials say. | | Passengers can take more than one piece of hand luggage on flights at 22 UK airports from Monday. |
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The EU presidency says a row over fishing rights could delay Croatia's membership talks. | | Iraqi soldiers are among eight killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad in an attack during Army Day celebrations. |
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A German diplomat is told to leave Iran over what Tehran describes as "non-diplomatic activities". | | Pakistan's President Musharraf says Benazir Bhutto may have been shot dead, contradicting official accounts. |
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Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing into Afghanistan as the security situation worsens in tribal regions. | | At-risk patients in England are to be offered screening for heart disease and strokes, Gordon Brown is to say. |
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Asian shares slide after US jobs data raises fears about a possible recession. | | Experts on MRSA say that up to a third of people with the bug could be treated at home and not in hospital. |
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The Environment Agency says people should know more about the environmental risks of low-energy light bulbs. | | Intel withdraws from a project that aimed to put cheap laptops in the hands of children in developing nations. |
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