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A number of bodies have been discovered by health officials in Kono, a remote diamond-mining area of Sierra Leone, raising fears that the scale...

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Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been arrested at the main protest camp at Admiralty, which is now cleared after more than two months of...

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According to a new study, drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - more than currently die from...

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President George W. Bush was "fully informed" about CIA interrogation techniques condemned in a Senate report, his vice-president, Dick Cheney, says. Speaking to Fox News,...

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An Alpha Jet aircraft has crashed into a home for disabled people in central France, killing one person and leaving several others injured, one...

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Princess Charlene of Monaco has given birth to twin babies, Gabriella and Jacques, the palace has announced. Prince Jacques is next in line to the...

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Sinead O'Connor has applied to become a member of the Irish political party, Sinn Féin. Writing in her blog, Sinead O'Connor said she wanted to...

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The Pirate Bay website has been taken offline following a police raid in Sweden. Swedish police seized servers in Stockholm after a complaint was filed...

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Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein has died after a confrontation with Israeli troops at a protest in the West Bank. Ziad Abu Ein had died...

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Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski has acknowledged Poland let the CIA run a secret prison on its territory following 9/11. Aleksander Kwasniewski insisted he had not...

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Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards. The Nobel committee described both laureates as "champions of...

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Human rights groups and the United Nations have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in what a Senate report called the "brutal"...

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South African Judge Thokozile Masipa has ruled that prosecutors can appeal against the "culpable homicide" conviction of double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius. Oscar Pistorius, 27,...

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Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov has revealed that he bought James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him. Steel and telecoms...

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Prince William and Kate Middleton met LeBron James in New York on December 8 after watching a basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and...

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Mutant Giant Spider Dog, a short film featuring a dog in a tarantula costume, was the biggest "trending" video on YouTube in 2014, Google...

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President Barack Obama has written a line of computer code to help animate a character from Frozen animated movie. Barack Obama joined a group of...

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Bob Dylan will release tracks originally recorded by the likes of Frank Sinatra on his new album Shadows in the Night, the artist has...

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According to a US Senate report, the CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks. The summary of...

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Judge Thokozile Masipa has delayed to December 10 her ruling on whether prosecutors can appeal against what they call the "shockingly light" sentence passed...

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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has dismissed his vice-president, Joice Mujuru, after accusing her of plotting to kill him. Robert Mugabe also sacked seven other ministers...

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The American Film Institute (AFI) has put 11 movies on its recently released top 10 list for 2014. The top includes coming-of-age tale Boyhood, Birdman...

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Korean Air VP Heather Cho, who delayed a plane because she was angry with the way she had been served nuts by a flight...

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Actor Ken Weatherwax, best known for playing Pugsley in the original Addams Family, has died at the age of 59. Ken Weatherwax suffered a heart...

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A private jet has crashed into a house in Gaithersburg, Maryland, killing three people on board and three on the ground, fire officials say. The...