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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 11:05pm PDT
Jamaican Usain Bolt breaks the 100m world record with a time of 9.72 seconds in New York.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 10:00pm PDT
The US security chief tells the BBC the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are the new focus for the war on terror.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 7:51pm PDT
It looks like an equal split, but Obama's in charge
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 5:20pm PDT
Drinking on the Tube reaches the end of the line
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 9:31am PDT
A suspected suicide bomber is shot dead by troops near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 9:15am PDT
World number one Roger Federer takes on Mario Ancic in the third round of the French Open.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 8:38am PDT
A unit from the Russian army's railway force is sent to the breakaway province of Abkhazia.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 8:30am PDT
The international airport in the Honduran capital is to be closed to larger planes, following a fatal crash.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 8:09am PDT
Police in Kenya fire tear gas to disperse a protest against the soaring cost of food after the recent political crisis.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 7:18am PDT
Lorenzo Odone, whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disorder was depicted in the film Lorenzo's Oil, dies.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 6:44am PDT
Zimbabwe's army chief tells soldiers they must leave the military if they do not vote for President Mugabe.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 6:36am PDT
Thousands of South Koreans rally over plans to import US beef again, because some consider it dangerous.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 6:19am PDT
A suicide car bomb reportedly kills one international soldier and injures six other people in eastern Afghanistan.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 5:35am PDT
Top seed Maria Sharapova beats Italy's Karin Knapp to reach the last 16 at the French Open.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:55am PDT
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is in Iraq to discuss France's contribution to the rebuilding effort.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:25am PDT
The simple things in life, it seems, really do make you happy
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:23am PDT
Watching Nepal become the world's newest republic
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:20am PDT
Treating the trauma of years of violence in Baghdad
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 3:03am PDT
BBC reporter Simon Hancock chases down a tornado
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 2:55am PDT
The World Health Organisation calls for a ban on all tobacco advertising on its World No Tobacco Day.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 2:00am PDT
Almost 200,000 people have been moved from areas below a rising "quake lake" in Sichuan, Chinese media say.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 1:05am PDT
US giant Ford is to invest $3bn (£1.5bn) in a new car plant in Mexico, creating 4,500 new jobs.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 12:56am PDT
Police arrest the parents of two young children who were stabbed to death in an attack at a home in south London.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 12:42am PDT
Boston Celtics will face LA Lakers in the NBA finals after beating Detroit Pistons 89-81 to clinch the Eastern Conference final series.
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Posted: May 31st, 2008, 12:34am PDT
Parents hopes of quick reunions with children removed from a sect's Texan ranch are hit by a legal wrangle.