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The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

Glamorous images of late screen siren Jane Russell

Europe’s armies are under-performing and will need fresh Franco-British impetus to meet future challenges, a top think-tank’s report says.
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Police charge a 23-year-old man with the murders of two French students in south-east London.
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An Italian court orders thegovernment to pay damages to a man who had to retake his driving test because he was gay.
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A French court denies citizenship to a Muslim woman, ruling that her practice of ”radical” Islam is not compatible with French values.
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Riccardo Ricco breaks away on the Col de Aspin to claim his second stage win of this year’s Tour de France in Bagneres de Bigorre.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy launches a Union for the Mediterranean, aimed at ending Mid-East conflict.
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The authorities in Argentina say they have uncovered a multi-million dollar operation in forged Italian passports.
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A national newspaper claims to have discovered the true identity of guerrilla artist Banksy.
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Poland’s former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek – a key anti-communist dissident – is killed in a car crash.
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Pope Benedict XVI says he will apologise for Church sex abuse scandals, as he arrives in Australia.
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A South American summit under way in Argentina is set to voice strong criticism of new European Union immigration laws.
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Film star Angelina Jolie checks into a hospital in the south of France where she is expected to give birth to twins.
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The man wanted over the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is hiding in western Europe, Russia’s chief investigator says.
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French authorities exhume the body of a women who was murdered in Ireland almost 12 years ago.
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France’s army chief of staff resigns after a soldier injured 17 people at a show by using live rounds instead of blanks.
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A 78-year-old man falls asleep as he tries to row home to Denmark from Sweden after a night drinking, police say.
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President Sarkozy admits that France’s EU presidency is off to a bumpy start, as Poland casts doubt on the Lisbon Treaty.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor presents his case for banning the ruling AK party to the constitutional court.
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France says President Sarkozy will meet his Syria counterpart ahead of a summit to launch a new Mediterranean union.
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The EU’s telecoms watchdog plans to cut mobile phone call costs by reducing fees that operators charge each other.
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Buena Vista Social Club director Wim Wenders is appointed to chair the jury at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
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Spain claim their first title in 44 years after beating Germany 1-0 in the Euro 2008 final in Vienna.
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The Italian cabinet moves to reinstate a law granting immunity to top officials – including PM Silvio Berlusconi.
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Bulgaria withdraw their weightlifting team from this summer’s Beijing Olympics as 11 lifters fail a drugs test.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU leaders agree to start new talks on a strategic partnership.
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An 11-year-old Romanian girl, raped by an uncle, is to be allowed a late abortion even though it is forbidden by law.
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Thousands of supporters of Iran’s outlawed opposition rally in France to end international bans on its armed wing.
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A military shooting demonstration in France leaves 16 people wounded, after real bullets are used instead of blanks.
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An assembly set up by Kosovo Serbs holds its first session in defiance of the majority ethnic Albanian government.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor gives evidence in a case to close a pro-Kurdish political party allegedly linked to PKK rebels.
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EU agriculture ministers approve stricter controls on the use of pesticides, after two years of debate.
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Germany says it will send an extra 1,000 soldiers to northern Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission.
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Ukraine’s authorities are investigating allegations that the prime minister’s daughter was assaulted by police.
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Pirates capture a German family off the coast of Yemen and take them to the breakaway republic of Somaliland, officials say.
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Confusion mars the French president’s departure from Israel as a policeman guarding the airport shoots himself dead.
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An Italian-born businessman invented Vatican connections as part of a property fraud, New York authorities allege.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

Iran condemns as illegal the latest raft of European Union sanctions over its uranium enrichment programme.
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A top Greek tycoon, who was kidnapped two weeks ago, is freed unharmed after his family paid a ransom.
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Serbia’s Socialist Party says it has agreed to join the coalition of its pro-European former rivals, after weeks of wrangling.
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Spain’s Cesc Fabregas says they must not expect a repeat of their 4-1 group win over Russia in the Euro 2008 semi-finals.
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A Macedonian journalist suspected of murdering women and then writing about their deaths is found dead in custody.
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The European Union agrees new financial sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment.
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The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s hopes of seeing communion extended to divorcees are quashed by the Pope.
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France clashes with the EU Commission after it calls an early halt to bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean.
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Seventy-five people are arrested in a major European police operation against the smuggling of Iraqi Kurds to the EU.
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The online auction site is lobbying the European Parliament to change current trade laws.
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French President Sarkozy, addressing Israeli MPs, calls for an end to settlement building in the West Bank.
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French public sector workers strike in protest at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform plans.
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Madeleine McCann’s parents are visit the European Parliament to get support for a Europe-wide alert system for abducted children
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Austria’s compensation commission agrees a 13.9m euro settlement for a cable-car blaze in 2000 that killed 155 people.
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Villagers in north-eastern Romania elect a dead man as their mayor, to avoid giving votes to his living rival.
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A strike by fuel tanker drivers over pay ends and talks aimed at averting further industrial action resume.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says terrorism is the greatest threat to France as he presents a new defence strategy.
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Lithuania passes the toughest curbs anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
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The EU must not renegotiate a reform treaty despite the Irish rejection of the Lisbon deal, France says.
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A Turkish publisher is sentenced to jail for ”insulting the Turkish republic” over a book on Armenian killings.
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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi defends a move to suspend some trials for a year amid accusations of conflict of interest.
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There is believed to be just one survivor from a boat that sank while carrying 150 migrants from Libya to Italy.
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The European Commission says it wants shops to sell knobbly or misshapen fruit and vegetables alongside ”class one” produce.
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A Dutch court hears a civil action against the state brought by relatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.
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Bosnia-Hercegovina takes a big step towards joining the European Union, with the signing of an EU pact.
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The Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson dies in a scuba diving accident at the age of 44.
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Inflation in the eurozone has a climbed to a record level of 3.7% in May amid higher food and fuel costs, figures show.
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The Irish foreign minister says it is too early to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty, ahead of talks.
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Ukraine’s president says he hopes the country can be put on the path to Nato membership this year.
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Dutch police arrest an armed man who took at least four people hostage in the Dutch city of Almelo.
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British troop numbers in Afghanistan will increase to more than 8,000 by next spring, Des Browne tells MPs
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The Spanish PM promises ”zero tolerance” of violence from lorry drivers striking over rising fuel prices.
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Shadow home secretary David Davis quits as an MP over the erosion of ”British liberties” and urges Labour to fight him.
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Croatia claim an impressive 2-1 win over pre-tournament favourites Germany to reach the Euro 2008 quarter-finals.
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Ireland has voted in a referendum on ratifying the EU reform treaty, in a poll which could make or break the agreement.
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An investigation is launched after six people are killed while working inside a water purification tank in Sicily.
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Wayne Rooney has married childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin, according to an Italian mayor.
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The European Commission launches an investigation into the French utility Gaz de France.
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President George Bush denounces ”misinformation and propaganda” which he says are sullying the US’ image abroad.
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The UN chief sets out plans to cede UN functions in Kosovo to the EU, despite Russian opposition.
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Jewels belonging to the only daughter of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis sell for twice their estimated value in London.
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The UK faces disciplinary proceedings from the EU which says its budget deficit is growing too large.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown wins a crucial Commons vote on increasing the time police can hold terror suspects.
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Indicted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin is arrested near Belgrade, Serbian officials say.
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The 19-year-old whose illness alerted Austrian authorities to a major incest scandal is to make a full recovery, doctors say.
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MPs in Kosovo select a national anthem during a special parliamentary session in the capital, Pristina.
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Irish No camp recruits singing turkey to give EU treaty a roasting
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Two lorry drivers are killed in fuel protests in Spain and Portugal as strikes over rising diesel prices continue.
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President Bush says ”all options” are available to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme, on a visit to Germany.
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The ashes of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent are scattered in the garden of his villa in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.
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Russia’s President Medvedev warns Georgia and Ukraine of serious consequences if they join Nato.
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Irish and EU officials insist the reform treaty will pass an Irish referendum even as a poll suggests the No vote is surging.
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Turkey’s ruling party holds emergency talks after a court ruling on headscarves threatens its future.
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Magistrates in London uphold a request to extradite four men to Rwanda to face mass murder charges.
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An Austrian judge extends the detention in custody of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.
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Corrupt officials are creaming off about $120bn a year – equivalent to a third of the national budget, a Russian prosecutor says.
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Turkey’s ruling AK Party attacks the Constitutional Court for blocking moves to permit headscarves at universities.
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