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We explain in 60 seconds why a court in Cairo found al-Jazeera journalists guilty of spreading false news and supporting
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A pro-Russian in eastern Ukraine has told the BBC that he has been recruiting volunteer fighters from Russia.Subscribe
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Cairo court sentences three al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting Muslim Brotherhood to at least seven years in jail. A court
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St Petersburg-born photographer Alexander Dragunov took the BBC on a tour of Stockholm's metro system, and showed off some of
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Matthew Price, on board an Italian navy ship, has been witnessing a rescue unfold. The frigate is under orders to
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The top of a 3,000m-high (10,000ft) mountain in Chile has been blown up to make way for the world's largest
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Japan has decided that Manga will be exempt from a new law banning posession of child pornography. For years, Japan
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Heavy floods have hit eastern Bulgaria, killing at least 12 people and causing severe damage to several cities. Forecasters said
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A football-mad couple from India are making their way to see their ninth World Cup football tournament. The elderly pair
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A representative of the highest Shia authority in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has called for a national stance against
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Bryony Hopkins , who was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease at the age of 4, discusses her condition and the ongoing
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Watch full unedited footage showing how the gun battle unfolded and Paul Wood's lucky escape. The assault by Sunni militants
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Window cleaner James Rowley has received a bravery award from the police after chasing down a man who tried to
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Impoverished children of the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking lessons in capoeira - a mix of martial arts and
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How many reigning World Cup holders have gone out of the competition at the group stages? Watch our FIFA World
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Amazon has unveiled its first handset, offering 3D visuals - thanks to four face-tracking cameras on its front - and
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King Felipe VI has called for "a new Spain that we will build together" after being proclaimed head of state
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Iraq's biggest oil refinery is said to have come under the control of Sunni-led militant group ISIS. The group has
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As Sunni extremist militants continue to make territorial gains in Iraq, many American servicemen and women who served in the
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Watch the story of four England fans walked for 100 days from Argentina to Brazil to raise money to build
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BBC team caught in gunfight between Kurds and ISIS in Iraq.As Kurdish forces battle to push back ISIS in
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Footage has emerged of football fans climbing on what appears to be an unstable staircase at the World Cup in
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Israel's military has arrested 41 more Palestinians as it expands the search for three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped in the
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The Islamist militant group ISIS have seized the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar but the Iraqi forces have hit
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At least one person has been killed and 19 injured when two massive tornadoes hit the US state of Nebraska.
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Divided between government and rebel halves for nearly two years, the historical Syrian city of Aleppo has suffered devastation on
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In 1976, Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States, was killed when a bomb attached to his
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At least 48 people have died after unidentified gunmen attacked hotels and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town,
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Iraq's army has benefited from years of US and British training, as well as billions of dollars in military aid.
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F1 champion Michael Schumacher has left hospital in Grenoble and is no longer in a coma, his family says.
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Officials in Texas have set fire to a luxury lakeside home that was dangling over the edge of a cliff.
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Peter Okwoche takes us through some of the facts and figures featuring during the Brazil World Cup, including records that
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A cutting-edge exoskeleton designed by a Brazilian neuroscientist has been featured as part of the 2014 Fifa World Cup opening
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Ptolemy Elrington sees animals in everyday objects - usually unwanted objects that have been discarded and left as rubbish.
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Iraq says it has launched air strikes against Islamist militants advancing on the capital Baghdad.They are targeting the
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It's no secret that there's a great deal of animosity between liberals and conservatives in America, but just how big
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Former US President George HW Bush has marked his 90th birthday with a parachute jump.The 41st President jumped
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Police in Sao Paulo have used tear gas to break up a protest against the football World Cup, hours before
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Colin Nell won't be playing at football's World Cup in Brazil - but the "freestyler" still has some impressive moves!
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Using sea creatures as fortune-tellers seems to be turning into a World Cup tradition.Four years ago the Germans