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| July 29 |
| Murderer
may be biggest serial killer in US history |
| Moscow's
rich get the chance of a house on Pooh corner |
| Hamza wins go-ahead to appeal over 'unfair' trial |
| Hope and fear in Congo
vote |
| Spain finally attempts
to lay ghosts of the Franco era |
| American astronomers
claim that black holes may not exist |
| Bush cuts short holiday as
anti-war neighbours move in |
| Oil price and dollar plunge
as American growth stalls |
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| July 28 |
| Tour
de France winner tests positive in drug check |
| Moscow snubs US to
sell arms to Venezuela |
| Bolton fights to keep UN job
at new hearings |
| How
the Palace agreed to silence 'King' Anthony's claim to throne |
| Jehovah's
Witness joke fails to amuse the police |
| Italy to let 12,000 out
of prison to combat overcrowding |
| Chess champion may have been sleepwalking when she
fell to her death |
| Top Indian civil servant
'was CIA spy' |
| Mentally
ill Tube killer sought help repeatedly |
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| July 27 |
| America's
toughest bounty hunter - and he doesn't use a gun |
| Americans
are getting too fat for X-rays |
| How to keep burglars at bay, by your own burglar |
| Here is the weather forecast: It will pour down
liquid methane |
| Teenage leader of Burmese rebel group surrenders
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| Poland reluctant to give America sovereignty over missile base |
| Spain attracts record
number of migrants seeking jobs and sun |
| Texan family loses
two sons to war in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| Chinese police say
activist broke own neck |
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| July 26 |
| 600 Taliban killed
in bloodiest month for 5 years |
| Study estimates
250,000 active child soldiers |
| Internet
gambling chief sacked as he sits in a prison cell |
| Cancer
drug ban a death sentence, say sufferers |
| Fear of McCarthy-style purge
as Poles face sack for secret police links |
| Ukraine MPs vow to defy
president after talks fail |
| Thailand records bird flu death
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| July 25 |
| Pakistan 'building new reactor' |
| Hugo, Fidel and Che united
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| New Yorkers swelter through
sixth day without electricity |
| Food giants to boycott
illegal Amazon soya |
| Afghan violence 'leaves 22 dead' |
| Boycott call for DR Congo polls |
| Crucial talks to open on Kosovo |
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| July 23 |
| Somalia inches
towards war |
| Commanders
want to withdraw troops from Afghan outposts |
| Arizona: The city
paralysed by fear as serial killers stalk its streets |
| The mafia T-shirt you
can't refuse |
| Putin plan to shut
out US oil giants |
| America's domestic policy vs America's foreign policy |
| Afghanistan close to
anarchy, warns general |
| Hundreds dead or missing
in North Korea |
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| July 22 |
| Prodi faces test over
extradition of 26 CIA agents |
| Cadbury
bars 'most likely cause of food poisoning' |
| Ceausescu regime
used children as police spies |
| SE Asia calls for action
on Burma |
| Khmer Rouge
'butcher' dies waiting to be tried |
| Frank's
kind of girl |
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| July 21 |
| Ethiopian troops
sent into Somalia to halt Islamist advance |
| HIV will cost India
billions |
| Chicago police 'tortured
black suspects' |
| It's art squad v
tomb raiders as Greece reclaims its pillaged past |
| Polish labourers kept in
Italian 'prison camp' |
| Khmer Rouge 'butcher' dies at 80 |
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| July 19 |
| 70
years on, Spain hopes to heal civil war wounds |
| Relief
for Nasa as Discovery makes a textbook landing |
| Scores
dead as huge tsunami slams into Java |
| Tsunami death toll mounts |
| Cherie
Blair infuriates Russia with offer of help to activists |
| Blueprint Sex museum plan
sparks Rio row |
| EU plans rapid reaction force
to deal with migrants |
| Fear and loathing on DC's
streets as summer crimewave reaches the elite |
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| July 18 |
| West flounders as old
divisions resurface |
| Java tsunami death toll
increases |
| Mexico: Defeated
candidate calls for civil resistance |
| Online betting boss faces
conspiracy charges in US |
| Football fans block
railway line after Zeffirelli call to arms |
| Afghan clerics seek return of anti-alcohol police
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| Etna awakes with storm of fire and lava |
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| July 17 |
| Red
faces after Putin jibe over peerages |
| EU to
downgrade relations with Middle Eastern partners |
| Poor
memory? Get some sleep |
| Sultan's
civil servants get first pay rise for 22 years |
| California
scorched by 122F summer |
| Rice warns North Korea of new sanctions |
| No
need for witch doctors - I'm staying, says Mugabe |
| Congo
set to take the rutted road to free elections |
| UK troops join raid
on Taliban |
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| July 16 |
| Putin:
Don't lecture me about democracy |
| Muslim
extremist admits he was spy who revealed Canada bomb plot |
| Coalition
raids kill 40 Afghan militants |
| Massacre
of Haiti innocents |
| Les
Bleus drive a quarter of French to the pill bottle |
| 'It's
time India got angry and stopped all this 'bouncing back' nonsense' |
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| July 15 |
| Bush
papers over cracks in Putin 'friendship' |
| Defiant Chirac vows to fight on |
| White House U-turn on secret wiretaps |
| Russia clamps down
on dissent ahead of G8 |
| Death toll rises
as gang violence rocks Sao Paulo |
| Tsunami charities 'swept locals aside in rush to
spend cash' |
| Pakistan
'supported' Bombay bombers |
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| July 14 |
| India claims Pakistan 'hand' in bombs |
| Inflatable spacecraft launched |
| Poll loser's supporters
march on Mexico City |
| Warning
over Third World aid for schools |
| World
Cup suffers at hands of the winners |
| Six
killed as crime gangs wage new war in Sao Paulo |
| Kashmir
talks delayed as India and Pakistan clash over Bombay bombs |
| Islamists
close in on Somalian government |
| China
imprisons internet critic |
| Jackson's
ex-wife says he owes her thousands |
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| July 12 |
| 163
killed in Bombay train bombings |
| Microsoft
pulls plug on support for Windows 98 |
| US
slashes deficit estimate by $127bn as tax revenues rise |
| German
anger at orchestration of visit by Bush to see Merkel |
| Honey,
I blew up the house |
| U-turn
as White House agrees to Geneva Conventions protection for detainees |
| Blasts rock
Mumbai rail network |
| Cresson
broke EU rules but will keep pension |
| Pinochet
and son deny selling cocaine to Europe and US |
| The
cutting edge of space-age technology: duct tape |
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| July 11 |
| Owner
suspected after New York building blast |
| Terrorist
who plotted Beslan school siege dies in blast |
| US
scientists crack secret codes for EU satellite system |
| Chirac
forgives Zidane 'the virtuoso' for his World Cup madness |
| Chess
king Kasparov goads Putin with 'alternative summit' |
| UK:
900 troops sent to fight theTaliban |
| Twins
poised to take firm grip of Polish politics |
| Einstein's
theory of fidelity |
| Pakistan
plane crash kills 45 |
| Genghis
Khan, law giver, free trader and diplomat, is back with a new image |
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| July 10 |
| Building
collapses in Manhattan |
| Chechen warlord
Basayev 'killed' |
| Zidane
sees red as Italy win World Cup on penalties |
| Fans
fill Roman arena to salute modern gladiators |
| Holiday
plane disaster claims 122 lives |
| US
show of power in the Pacific aimed at the Chinese |
| Bush may
have broken law over intelligence |
| Zapatero
snubs Pope at Mass for 'the family' |
| Astronauts
may need to fix shuttle |
| Mexican
poll loser says he was cheated |
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| July 9 |
| Hunt
for the Taliban trio intent on destruction |
| British
Afghan hunted as the link between Tube bombers and al-Qaeda |
| Passenger plane
crashes in Russia, more than 150 feared dead |
| 100,000
in Mexico protest Obrador loss |
| Millionaire
'staged attempt on his life to frame eldest son' |
| Abandoned
in Moscow, enrolled in the Red Army and finally crowned as a king |
| White farmer stands trial for shooting a black boy
he 'mistook for a dog' |
| Berlusconi
alone in Italy's political wilderness |
| Russia
secretly offered North Korea nuclear technology |
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| July 8 |
| Pope
sets out on a mission to halt 'eclipse of God' |
| Spain
reports first case of lethal bird flu virus |
| UK
has boosted Taliban, admits defence chief |
| Germans
hit road in search for jobs |
| Birthday
boy Bush keeps on joking |
| Witty
Gaultier puts on top hat and fox tails |
| Christian
sect leader guilty of killing rivals in China |
| Vast
chunk of rock threatens to fall as global warming opens up crack |
| Diaries
reveal how teenagers planned massacre at Columbine massacre |
| Agent
who led Bin Laden hunt criticises CIA |
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| July 7 |
| Conservative
wins Mexico's protracted presidential election |
| Defiant
North Korea vows to test more missiles |
| Pope
visits Spain to hail family values |
| 2
in Tongan royal family killed in Calif. |
| 2
top courts rule against gay marriage |
| Computer
hacker to be extradited to America |
| Coca-Cola
is still the real thing, thanks to Pepsi |
| Opening
of Silk Road weaves India closer to China |
| More
troops will go to Afghanistan |
| Putin
in kiss-and-tell webcast to soften image |
| Bus
blast in rebel Moldovan province leaves eight dead |
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| July 6 |
| Sixth
Briton dies in Afghanistan |
| Pyongyang faces united criticism |
| Galliano's
queens on the warpath |
| Hundreds
strip off in bull run protest |
| Sophia
Loren makes the grade as a Pirelli pin-up at age of 71 |
| 12-year
corruption probe ends with 38 minor convictions |
| Chips
are down as cash crisis shuts casinos |
| Spain
is developing into a nightmare |
| US
hints at stiff penalties for North Korea |
| Discovery's astronauts carry out shuttle inspection |
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| July 5 |
| I
faked embryo cloning data, admits scientist |
| Shuttle
fears over foam lost in blast-off |
| North
Korea sparks crisis by launching six missiles |
| Taliban
attacks spread as allied offensive bites |
| CIA
closes its special bin Laden operation |
| Spanish
death train doing twice speed limit before smash |
| King
of Beaujolais is convicted over adulterated wines |
| Woman
held in Barcelona serial killer investigation |
| Lord's
Resistance Army leader is offered amnesty by Uganda |
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| July 4 |
| Calderón holds
lead as Mexican vote goes to a recount |
| Target
any white person: the chilling guidelines for Bali suicide bombers |
| Guantanamo
six go on trial in France |
| Terror
plots accelerating, warns police chief |
| First
British Muslim soldier killed fighting the Taliban |
| Underground
train crash kills 34 in Valencia |
| Prayers
for justice as Khmer Rouge chiefs go on trial |
| Keira
keeps her cool for Pirates premiere |
| Nasa to go ahead with Discovery launch |
| Russian
TV contest selects would-be MPs |
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| July 3 |
| Tearful
Beckham gives up captaincy |
| Fears
over Afghan mission as more troops die |
| No
way back for young Mexicans who go chasing illegal US dollars |
| Time catches up with get-fit Bush |
| French
families shelter young migrants |
| How the Japanese are getting a buzz
out of falling asleep at work |
| New Jersey state government shutdown |
| Japan: Missing man
returns home after 67 years |
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| July 2 |
| 'For
each Taliban you kill, I can find 20 more to fill his place' |
| Blair
a failure on crime, say 3 in 4 voters |
| Nigeria
arrests reporters over story on president's luxury jet |
| Congo's
jungle terrorists disband |
| French 'elephants? muster to trample Royal |
| Fear of UK backlash
on Afghan war |
| The
one good man who brought down Guantanamo |
| Australian
sperm donors get right to contact offspring |
| How
do you tell the difference between a Kiwi and an Aussie? |
| England
feels the heat at home and abroad |
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| July 1 |
| Honeymoon
is over as coalition turns on Merkel |
| Argentina
in Falklands row |
| 'Non-contactable'
Guantánamo witnesses found |
| 'Elvis
diplomacy' a hit with Japanese leader |
| After 250 years, France falls for Marie Antoinette |
| Pomegranates
may slow prostate cancer |
| Wedding
hint by reluctant Royal |
| Condi
and Sergei air differences over an open microphone |
| Africa:
G8 pledges stalled as rulers cling to power |
