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Updated: 6 hours 41 min ago

US police 'shot dead in ambush'

7 hours 46 sec ago
Four police officers have been shot dead at a coffee shop in Washington State, in an attack described as 'an execution'.
Categories: Global News

In pictures

7 hours 2 min ago
The children employed to make rope in Bangladesh
Categories: Global News

Spaniards kidnapped in Mauritania

7 hours 28 min ago
Three Spanish citizens have been kidnapped in the West African country of Mauritania, according to reports.
Categories: Global News

Voting ends in Honduras election

8 hours 12 min ago
Voting ends in presidential elections in Honduras, where neither the ousted president nor interim president were candidates.
Categories: Global News

Bangladesh ferry rescue attacked

8 hours 21 min ago
Rescuers at a ferry on which 56 people drowned in Bangladesh were pelted with stones by relatives angry at delays.
Categories: Global News

Final report

8 hours 42 min ago
Commonwealth stand on climate change ups profile
Categories: Global News

Commonwealth urges reform in Fiji

9 hours 12 min ago
Commonwealth leaders urge Fiji's military rulers to restore democracy and ensure human rights are protected.
Categories: Global News

Europe's unease

9 hours 37 min ago
Swiss minaret vote reflects continent-wide differences
Categories: Global News

Tiger Woods hits out at 'false rumours'

10 hours 1 min ago
Tiger Woods hits out at "unfounded rumours" circulating since he was involved in a car accident in the early hours of Friday morning.
Categories: Global News

Swiss voters back ban on minarets

10 hours 7 min ago
More than 57% of Swiss voters back a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets, official results show.
Categories: Global News

E Guinea opposition rejects poll

10 hours 43 min ago
Equatorial Guinea's main opposition candidate says he will not accept Sunday's election result because polls were not fair.
Categories: Global News

Barca leapfrog Real with key win

11 hours 30 min ago
Barcelona beat Real Madrid 1-0 at the Camp Nou to overtake their arch rivals at the top of La Liga.
Categories: Global News

Fatal flat fire 'not suspicious'

11 hours 31 min ago
Police investigating the cause of a fire in a south-west London flat which killed a mother and her daughter say it is not suspicious.
Categories: Global News

Iran 'plans new enrichment sites'

12 hours 8 min ago
Iran's government approves a big expansion in its uranium enrichment programme, after a rebuke from the UN watchdog.
Categories: Global News

Living the dream - Susan Boyle album breaks UK chart record

12 hours 21 min ago
Singer Susan Boyle's album is number one after it became the best-selling debut in UK chart history.
Categories: Global News

Storm exposure

12 hours 47 min ago
Could insuring for weather damage become impossible?
Categories: Global News

Find Bin Laden, PM tells Pakistan

13 hours 47 min ago
Gordon Brown tells the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden.
Categories: Global News

What will Swiss minaret ban achieve?

14 hours 4 min ago
Swiss voters have backed a ban on building more minarets in their country. What's your view?
Categories: Global News

Author voices anger on rescued banks

14 hours 27 min ago
A group including the author Iain Banks accuses the government of "writing a blank cheque" for rescued banks.
Categories: Global News

Pirates jailed for yacht murder

15 hours 10 min ago
Two Burmese fishermen and a 17-year-old boy are jailed in Thailand for murdering a British yachtsman.
Categories: Global News

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