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Burma impounds UN aid deliveries
The UN World Food Programme halts its aid to Burma after the first delivery is impounded by the government.

Hezbollah takes over west Beirut
Gunmen from militant group Hezbollah drive out government supporters from western Beirut, stoking fears of civil war.

Judge prolongs Fritzl's custody
The Austrian man accused of locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years is to be held for another month.

Militias 'to rig Zimbabwe poll'
Zimbabwe's "war veterans" militia plan to intimidate voters inside polling stations, a policeman tells the BBC.

Israeli PM denies taking bribes
The Israeli PM denies taking bribes from a wealthy US-Jewish businessman and resists calls for his resignation.

Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured
The US military in Iraq says a man detained in Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Tanks rejoin Moscow V-Day parade
Tanks and missile launchers are featured in Moscow's Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.

Pakistan opposes US military aide
Pakistan asks the US not to appoint a military envoy who used to run the prison at Guantanamo.

Europeans get drunk 'to have sex'
Some teenagers and young adults get high on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

US and Russian sailors stage sandwich-making battle
Sailors from the Russian and US navies square off in a sandwich-making contest for Victory Day.

Tags to track Greenland walrus migration
Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada.

Ferguson has confidence in Bolton
Sir Alex Ferguson has faith that Bolton will provide a stern test for Chelsea in Sunday's Premier League title decider.

Wenger mystified by Hleb reports
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger insists there is nothing in reports that Alexander Hleb is leaving the club.

High stakes
Global rifts are fuelling the Lebanese conflict

It's quiz time!
Could fat on your derriere be a good thing after all?

In pictures
Russia's military parades through Red Square

Taser parties
Meeting the women shunning kitchen ware for stun guns

Harare diary
Teacher's certificate to prove he's had a beating

Warrior nation
Israelis have always faced war, but what now?

Kenya's cabinet learns the ropes
Kenya's power-sharing cabinet meets for the first time for former rivals to learn how to work as a team.

Bolivians to hold confidence vote
Bolivia will vote in a referendum on the rule of its leftist president as he struggles to enact reform.

Australia probes troop abuse claims
The Australian army says it is probing allegations that its soldiers mistreated prisoners in Afghanistan.

Czech 'mystery impostor' on trial
A Czech woman accused of duping a children's home into believing she was a young girl faces child abuse charges.

Israel marks its 60th anniversary
Israel marks 60 years since its creation in 1948, a date the Palestinians remember as "the Catastrophe".

UK transfers renegade Tamil Tiger
A former leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels who was jailed in the UK in January is transferred to an immigration detention centre.


 

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