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BP spreads blame over oil spill A BP report says \"a series of failures\" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. |
Sri Lanka leader gets sweeping powers Sri Lankan MPs overwhelmingly approve proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. |
Church defiant over Koran burning A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary. |
European police in pirate raids Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown |
UN seeks to placate Rwanda leader The UN\'s secretary general urges Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide. |
Clan \'behind Philippine massacre\' The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines\' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner. |
Castro chides Ahmadinejad \'anti-Semitism\' Cuba\'s Fidel Castro criticises Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes. |
Kampusch releases book on ordeal Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped and held in a cellar for more than eight years as a child, launches her autobiography in Vienna. |
EU ruling opens up German gambling market German gambling restrictions breach European Union law, the EU\'s highest court rules |
Australia, NZ top \'giving\' index Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high. |
Russian pilot lands plane after power failure at 10,000m A Russian passenger plane makes a safe landing in the Siberian taiga after a power failure at more than 10,000 metres. |
Cine \'film eating\' fungus threatens UK archives A fungus that \'eats\' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history. |
Clinton declares \'new US moment\' US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the model of American leadership offers the best hope in a \"dangerous world\". |
Boeing revamps military division Boeing announces cuts at its military aircraft division in readiness for future reductions in US government defence spending. |
Thousands caught in Mexico floods Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern and southern Mexico see floodwaters inundate their homes. |
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