- Blair backs Brown's leadership bid
- Millions to tune in to Eurovision Song Contest
- Sun rapped over Charlotte Church pregnancy report
- Sun-powered boat crosses Atlantic
- Veils seized from Muslim women
- Call for NATO to hold Taleban talks
- President's rival remains mayor
- Students strike at Sorbonne
- Queen replies in spirit of '76
- Fake editor gets life over £250,000 bribes
- Stones refuse to risk scaring the horses
- Germany acts over threat to G8 summit
- Life in jail for vegans who starved their baby son to death
- Black's lawyer calls for mistrial over 'class prejudice'
- Madeleine hunt halts tourism drive
- Teenage girls are jailed for life after murdering friend as an experiment
- What he did for the world - with a belief that might was right
- Mugabe court extradites mercenary in deal for oil
- Al-Qaeda group says it snatched BBC man and demands trade for cleric
- Suspicions among nations hold back climate pacts
- Ramos-Horta heading for big win in East Timor poll
- Somali pirates hijack ship north of Mogadishu
- R&B singer Akon sorry about underage stage romp
- "Terminator" back for a new trilogy
- Ramos-Horta heading for big win in East Timor poll
- Pair to be sentenced over leaked secret memo
- China defends Darfur role
- Gunmen attack lawyer of Pakistan's top judge
- NHS failing on mixed-sex wards
- Six world powers meet over Iran's nuclear defiance
- U.S.-led raid kills 40 civilians in Afghanistan
- Syria signals little cooperation with Hariri court
- Olmert criticises army in Lebanon war testimony
- Japan may resume direct aid to Palestinians
- Space-saving plan for cemeteries
- A V-sign from beyond the grave
- Drugs czar calls for EU pressure
- Niger rebels halt oil production
- Estonia moves to defuse statue row
- 16 killed in latest Iraq suicide blast
- Library offers breathless prose
- Britons and French mixing their drinks
- Milan offers parents drug kits to test their children
- EU concern as Serbia elects hardline speaker
- Madeleine: 350 possible leads
- Dig unearths 2,000-year-old tomb and sarcophagus of King Herod
- Black firm siphoned off cash from sale of papers, says ex-aide
- Elderly set up secret labs to make drugs that will let them die
- Lawyers smell fortunes in the wind from those who claim to own it
- Pounds and ounces saved as EC backs down on ban
- Pope lands in Brazil to find faith on the mend
- Six Islamic militants in plot to attack army base in US, says FBI
- U.S. charges against anti-Castro exile dismissed
- East Timor votes in presidential run-off poll
- Experts to train immune cells to kill nose cancer
- Death toll in Philippine bomb attack rises to 8
- Fake reporter gets life for scam
- Gaza group issues demands for abducted BBC reporter
- Four U.S. oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
- Israel tanks manoeuvre round Gaza fence
- NATO air raid kills 21 in Afghan south
- Los Angeles park fire forces home evacuations
- Anglican head Williams seeks to foster Sri Lanka peace
- Four arrested over 7/7 London bombings
- French minister condemns anti-Sarkozy violence
- Coup leader wants Manila's Arroyo toppled in poll
- Spider-Man dominates box office in first weekend
- Police think Madeleine's abductor may be from UK
- Whitney is always loved at weddings
- Women forced out
- Lift holds on to vandals
- Vatican's first drugs trial
- Herod's tomb found
- Islam cannot justify kidnap of BBC man, militant group told
- Woman faces life in jail for hiring hit squad to kill lover's baby girl
- Threatened lizard's saliva brings boost to diabetics
- 94% of child deaths take place in just 60 countries, says study
- Meet the space women who never reached space
- Are we set for new French revolution?
- Sarkozy prepares battle plan
- Mother's plea for missing Madeleine
- Palestinian leader Abbas praises U.S. security plan
- Death toll in Haitian boat capsize rises to 54
- CBI urges offshore civil service jobs
- MPs criticise culture department's high office costs
- Northern Ireland enters new power-sharing era
- S. Africa's Tutu slams African leaders on Zimbabwe
- U.N. says Illegal arms often reach Lebanon
- Top Korean military brass meet for train talks
- Japan releases video of suspect in Briton's death
- Bjork enlists worldwide help on new album
- Police probe stag party M25 death crash
- Hunt for missing girl stirs memories of Ben Needham
- Verizon pulls out of Stefani tour over Akon flap
- North Korean general cracks George W. Bush joke
- Portugal police look into paedophile kidnap clues
- Sinai plane crash kills nine soldiers
- Six more years in office for Mugabe
- Tornado-hit town a disaster area
- Israel accused of prisoner torture
- City pulls plug on Chinese lanterns
- Suspended judge attacks president
- 'Hobbit' scientist in hunt for new species
- Kidnapped oil worker believed to be Scottish
- Republicans impatient for Bush's Iraq plan to work
- The Queen joins Kentucky Derby crowds for a day at the races
- Soldier in Iraq blast dies from his wounds
- Britons lost in African plane crash are named
- Silence of the doves as hundreds shot on way back to Europe
- Turkish crisis eases as Gul calls off bid to be president
- Sarkozy emerges victorious
- Mothers' Day in Portugal, and a family pleads: Pray for our missing Madeleine
- "Spider-Man 3" scales record heights
- UK soldier dies from injuries sustained in Iraq
- Thousands of Mexicans strip for Tunick photo shoot
- Killer Kansas tornado wreaks chaos and destruction
- Morocco breaks up al Qaeda recruiting gang
- Palestinians divided over U.S. security plan
- White House kitchen prepares meal fit for a Queen
- More than 50 hurt in Israeli football crush
- Hezbollah sees progress in talks to free 2 Israelis
- South Korea state bank to mediate North funds
- Two U.S. soldiers shot dead at Afghan prison
- Japanese find sleep and shelter in cyber cafes
- Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan
- China warns of "population rebound"
- Australian mobster gets 35 years for gangland murders
- Dreamworks wins deal on Jackson Bones film
- Hunt for survivors as tornado destroys town
- Briefs
- Judge decides the party's over for Paris by giving heiress 45 days in jail
- Sarkozy attacks Royal 'riot' claim
- Outside a gun store is no place to deride the president
- Grateful to be in the lions' den
- World briefs
- Former Israeli leaders poised to oust Olmert
- Rescuers comb rainforest as hopes fade for crash victims
- Abducted girl's family pray for her safe return
- Police 'know who abducted Madeleine'
- Vietnam trials preach zero-tolerance
- Bush's approval rate falls
- Bush's approval rate falls
- In China a call for democracy stirs secretive storm
- Families the focus of Australia's pre-poll budget
- Heavy rains kill five in Myanmar's main city
- Roadside bomb kills five Afghan police
- Roadside bomb kills five Afghan police
- Plane crashes in Egypt's Sinai
- Turkey's Gul says withdraws from president race
- Turkey's Gul says withdraws from president race
- Russian oil contractor abducted in Nigeria
- Army and police step up security after Bangkok bomb
- Streisand's UK shows sell out in minutes
- Scientist says Putin's Russia worse than under Stalin
- Ukraine's early poll
- Anti-sexism ruling
- AIDS drug row
- Man, '103', lies in his own grave
- 'Breakthrough' Iran meeting breaks down after boycott
- Mogadishu mayor pledges to take guns off the city's streets
- Warning of violence as presidential campaign concludes
- Obama gets secret service guard amid security fears
- Mubarak jnr takes a wife - but will Egyptians take him as their leader?
- Carlos the Jackal faces new trial for terrorism
- How world can get greener
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- Taiwan men seek mail-order brides from Vietnam
- Ariane rocket puts two satellites into orbit
- Google interviews McCain about U.S. presidential run
- Bangladesh picnickers drown after clash with police
- Taliban extend deadline on French hostage
- Kenya Airways plane crashes in Cameroon
- One dead, 21 hurt in Japan rollercoaster accident
- Sri Lanka flood death toll hits 11, 50,000 homeless
- U.S. convoy, Afghan police hit by two suicide bombs
- Iran "welcomes" proposal for more nuclear talks
- Afghan, foreign troops set counter-insurgency training
- Turks hit streets again amid political crisis
- North Korea nuclear talks may resume soon
- Purported tape from "dead" Qaeda leader put on Web
- Gunmen abduct oil worker, hit terminal in Nigeria
- Starving vultures killing animals
- Child rape accused faces extradition
- Job switch for kissing-row judge
- Indonesia forests vanishing fastest
- Bathroom breaks banned at market
- Russia acts over troop movements
- Who'll take a shine to pearl with £4m asking price?
- IBM reveals 'snowflake' computer chip
- 100,000 call for Olmert to quit Knesset
- Not-so-happy US landing for royal couple
- Family in tragic case of minority rights
- Two tribes go to war as wedding sparks Battle of Bollywood
- Brief encounter raises hopes of end to three decades of false dawns for better relations
- Researchers uncover genetic link to raised risk of heart attack
- Meet the 100 top people who shape the world - and guess what, Bush isn't one
- Irish teenager with damaged foetus pleads for right to UK abortion
- Briefest of hellos thaw the US-Iran cold war - for now
- Chimps are people too, insists scientist
- Reporting a deadly profession in the Philippines
- Taiwan says missile plan defensive
- "Skinny model" row ends thin week for Aussie fashion
- More Afghan civilians said killed in U.S.-led raid
- Actor Robin Williams says has been sober for 10 months
- George Lucas honoured at San Francisco Film Festival
- McCartney tops Sting to win classical award
- Labour minister Wilson is ousted
- Pakistan's Bhutto urges Musharraf to quit army
- U.S. plan calls for Gaza security crackdown in June
- Olmert's coalition under threat from key partner
- Olmert's coalition under threat from key partner
- Shoppers scramble for Boots' anti-ageing cream
- Estonia criticises Russia, but ready for dialogue
- Mugabe warns Catholic bishops over politics
- Go to work on rice, pork and alcohol
- Eighth of US now lives in California
- Pearl may fetch £4m at auction
- Darfur war crimes warrants issued
- Reward for finder of missing turtle
- Elysée blocks judges' search
- Nine charged after raids
- No more Mr Nice Guys?
- Presidential contenders in ill-tempered TV debate
- Tiny terrier gives his life to save children from pit bull attack
- Erdogan in move to use election to end Turkey stalemate
- 4,000 US troops go into Baghdad as talks seek solution
- Basketball refs racially biased claims study
- Community sentence for eBay fraudster after £10,500 scam
- Ruling party urges Olmert to quit over war failures
- Secrets of Hitler the soldier unearthed
- Being president isn't everybody's cup of tea
- Kidnappers reduce their demands in talks to free BBC reporter
- EU and China spar at U.N. climate talks
- Australia's biggest dinosaurs uncovered
- Stink bomb sparks Sydney train scare
- Boy arrested over stabbing murder
- Ten foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria
- 16-year-old fatally stabbed in Newcastle
- South Koreans and Filipinos kidnapped in Nigeria
- Up to 17 foreign workers kidnapped in Nigeria
- UVF paramilitaries end armed campaign
- Star marriage sparks Bollywood divide
- Turkish parliament debates early election call
- Ministry says senior al Qaeda leader killed in Iraq
- Midler setting up shop in Las Vegas
- Iraq Sunni bloc says weighing leaving government
- UK withholds millions in aid to Sri Lanka
- Taiwan diplomatic link angers China
- Mob lynches 'evil spirit' woman
- Israeli cabinet member quits