West Bank Settlement Plan Blow To Peace Hopes

By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent Palestinians say the two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is at death's door after Israel announced it is reviving plans to build on occupied land in a controversial area of East Jerusalem. William...

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UK Eyes Oz's Tough Anti-Smoking Laws

By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent The British Government is considering following Australia's lead by stripping all branding and logos from tobacco packaging. From today, Australia becomes the first country in the world to put all tobacco...

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North Korea Unveils New Rocket Launch Plan

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent, in Beijing North Korea says it is to launch a long-range rocket later this month. The launch, planned for between December 10 and December 22, has significantly increased already strained tensions with South Korea...

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Miami Airport: One Dead After Bus Hits Overpass

A bus has hit an overpass at Miami International Airport, killing at least one person and injuring dozens more, according to officials. Airport spokesman Greg Chin said the bus, thought to be a cruise or tour bus, hit the overpass going into the airport's...

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Egypt: Islamists Rally For Mohamed Morsi

Islamist backers of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi are staging a mass rally in Cairo in support of his expanding powers and the drafting of a new constitution. "The Muslim Brotherhood supports President Morsi's decisions," read a banner carried by...

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Chimpanzee Attack: Victim Gets $4m Settlement

A woman who was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled by a chimpanzee has agreed a $4m (£2.5m) settlement. Attack victim Charla Nash's family had filed a lawsuit seeking $50m (£31.2m) in damages from chimp owner...

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New York Good Cop Explains Act Of Kindness

It was meant to be a private gesture, but the New York policeman who bought a homeless man a $100 (£62) pair of boots has won international and official praise. Officer Larry DePrimo appeared before throngs of reporters and cameras on Thursday after...

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Napoleon: Coded Document Up For Auction

A document containing Napoleon's coded secret order to blow up the Kremlin is going up for auction in France. The single line of numeric code - dated October 20, 1812, and signed "Nap" in the emperor's hand - told Paris of his desperate attempt to win...

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Magician's Head Set On Fire In TV Prank

A US magician has been seriously injured after a TV host set his head on fire live on television. Wayne Houchin was appearing on a show in the Dominican Republic when, in an apparently unscripted prank, its host dropped flammable liquid on his...

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Toxic Spill As Train Plunges Off Bridge

A rail bridge has collapsed over a creek in New Jersey causing a freight train to derail and spill hazardous chemicals. Police said vinyl chloride, a highly toxic and flammable industrial chemical, was spilling from at least one of the Conrail cars...

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China's 'Carrier Style' Takes On Gangnam

By Mark Stone, Beijing correspondent Internet users across China have begun an unlikely craze inspired by the launch of fighter jets from the country's first aircraft carrier. In what has quickly become known as 'Carrier Style', a cross-section...

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Tornado Hits Huge Steel Factory In Italy

A freak tornado has smashed into Europe's largest steel plant in the Italian city of Taranto, leaving one person missing and dozens injured. Video footage shows the storm rolling in off the sea and tearing through the port city before hitting the huge...

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Afghan Girl's Throat Slit Over Refusal To Wed

A 15-year-old girl in Afghanistan has been murdered after her family refused a marriage proposal. The teenager had her throat slit as she was carrying water from a river to her village home in the northern Kunduz province on Wednesday. Two men have...

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Manning Guard Joked About Underwear Risk

A prison officer guarding the soldier accused of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks made jokes about him being ordered to remove his underwear because he was a suicide risk, a pre-trial hearing was told. On the second day of the hearing, a Maryland...

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Pussy Riot: Court Bans Videos From Internet

Videos made by the jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot, including the infamous "Punk Prayer" in a Moscow cathedral, have been branded "extremist" by a Russian court. It ordered that access to the videos should be banned online. The judge hearing the...

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German Train Driver Killed 10 In Crash

A freight train driver has been convicted of manslaughter after he smashed into a passenger train, killing 10 in one of Germany's worst rail crashes. The 41-year-old missed two stop signals and drove head-on into an express train travelling in the opposite...

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Syria: Deadly Car Bomb Blasts Rock Damascus

At least 50 people have been killed after two suspected car bombs exploded in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to UK-based opposition activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added that more than 120 people were wounded in the blasts...

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P Diddy Urged To Act Over Bangladesh Fire

Rapper Sean Combs has been urged to use his influence to improve Bangladeshi factory conditions after it emerged his clothing range was made in a workshop where 112 died in a fire. Workers who survived the deadliest factory fire in the country's clothing...

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Anti-Islam Film: Seven Face Death Sentence

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death seven Christians in absentia for taking part in an anti-Islam film released on the web. The film, which depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a paedophile, was released in September and has prompted violent protests...

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BP Banned From US Government Contracts

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US has temporarily suspended BP from new US government contracts. The ban stemmed from the British oil giant's conduct regarding the blowout at its Deepwater Horizon rig which killed 11 workers in...

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Jersey Bridgeman: Neighbour Arrested For Murder

Jersey Bridgeman - who was abused by her father and stepmother - was allegedly killed last week by a neighbour, investigators have said. The six-year-old was reported missing from her home in Bentonville, 215 miles northwest of Little Rock, on the morning...

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Arafat Poisoning Probe: Remains Tested

Timeline: Yasser Arafat Updated: 9:52am UK, Tuesday 27 November 2012 Here are some of the key dates in Mr Arafat's life. :: February 4, 1969 Mr Arafat, the fifth child of a Palestinian merchant, takes over the PLO chairmanship. He transforms it into...

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Mexico: Beauty Queen Dies In Gang Gunfight

A Mexican beauty queen has been killed in a gunfight between soldiers and a suspected gang she was travelling with. Authorities suspect that 22-year-old Maria Susana Flores Gamez, who was the Woman of Sinaloa 2012, was part of the gang and may have...

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Two And A Half Men Star Says Show Is 'Filth'

A teenage actor on Two And A Half Men has criticised the hit US television show, calling it "filth" and urging viewers not to watch it. Angus T Jones, 19, made the comments in a recording in his production trailer. He reportedly earns $350,000 (£218,000)...

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China: Scandal As Bribery Sex Tape Goes Viral

Chinese ministers are facing a new scandal with the release of a five-year-old sex tape involving an 18-year-old woman allegedly hired by developers to sleep with a city official. Lei Zhengfu, who is in his 50s, was sacked as district party secretary...

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Brit Killed In South Africa Farm Robbery

A British man who went to South Africa to run a nature reserve has been killed in a robbery at his farm, police say. Christopher Preece had gone outside to check why the power was cut at the property when three men attacked him with machetes, according...

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Australia Apologises For Military Sex Abuse

The Australian government has made an apology to military personnel who were sexually abused or otherwise mistreated during their service. Defence Minister Stephen Smith made the apology in Parliament on behalf of the government following hundreds of...

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Second Fire At Bangladeshi Clothing Factory

There has been a second fire at a multi-storey clothes factory in Dhaka, just two days after over 100 people were killed in a blaze at another factory in the Bangladeshi capital. The fire at the 11-storey building, housing three garment factories, in...

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Deaths After Fire At Workshop For Handicapped

Fourteen people have died after a fire broke out at a workshop for people with disabilities in Germany. At least six other people were also injured in the blaze, which occurred in the small town of Titisee-Neustadt in southwestern Germany. Karl-Heinz...

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Breivik: Video Of Killer Parking Van Bomb

CCTV footage of Anders Behring Breivik parking his van and walking off before a massive bomb inside exploded has been shown publicly for the first time. The security camera video from July 2011 also contains pictures of the significant damage caused...

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Egypt Judges Condemn President's 'Attack'

Egyptian judges have condemned a decree granting President Mohamed Morsi sweeping new powers, as angry protesters clashed with police for a second day. A handful of rock-throwing activists battled riot police in the streets near Tahrir Square, where...

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Catalonia Holds Vote That Could Reshape Spain

Polls have opened in Spain's wealthy region of Catalonia for an election that could determine whether it eventually breaks away from the rest of the country. The region must choose a new assembly, after a campaign dominated by the issue of independence...

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First Jet Lands On New Chinese Aircraft Carrier

By Mark Stone, China Correspondent in Beijing A Chinese fighter jet has made a successful landing on the country's first aircraft carrier. Footage released by China's State Television shows the Chinese made J-15 jet touching down on the Liaoning...

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More Than 100 Die In Bangladesh Factory Fire

At least 112 people have been killed in a fire which tore through a clothes factory in Bangladesh, an official has said. The blaze broke out in the seven-storey building operated by Tazreen Fashions on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, late on Saturday....

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Dangling Truck Hangs From Overpass After Crash

An Oregon man dangled several feet above a highway for nearly an hour after his truck crashed through an overpass guard rail. Matthew Alan Hamilton was hospitalised on Saturday after firefighters plucked him from his pickup truck using a ladder with...

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