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- Resolution on Syria vetoed at UN
- Russia and China veto an Arab and Western-backed UN resolution condemning the violent crackdown in Syria, hours after scores are killed in Homs.
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- Scotland 6-13 England
- England's new-look side give interim coach Stuart Lancaster the best possible start by claiming a first win at Murrayfield in eight years.
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- Belize’s lessons in eco-tourism
- While it is never easy to balance tourism with conservation, the small Central American country has long recognized that ignoring the latter means betraying the former.
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- Week in pictures
- Look back on eye-catching photographs from the news this week.
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- Do the living outnumber the dead?
- There are more than seven billion people living today - but how many have gone beore us? A bureau in the US has crunched the numbers.
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- 'The highest paid decorator alive'
- Artist David Choe painted Facebook's offices in 2005 and took a stock option instead of payment. Now he is set to become a multi-millionaire when the social network begins trading as a public company.
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Fidel Castro launches his memoirs
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro appears in public for the first time since April 2011 to launch a two-volume book of memoirs.
Nevada holds Republican vote
Republicans in the US state of Nevada take part in caucuses to decide their choice of presidential candidate with Mitt Romney leading the field.
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Leaders beat Fulham 3-0 to go three points clear of Manchester United ahead of their meeting with Chelsea on Sunday.
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Acting veteran Ben Gazzara dies
US film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died in New York at the age of 81.
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Malaria toll 'is twice as high'
The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
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Apple overturns Motorola's ban
Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany.
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Prince optimistic for fisheries
Prince Charles says there are reasons to be optimistic about the state of the world's oceans, but it is "critically urgent" to tackle overfishing.
Travel
- Hong Kong's biggest arts festival
- The 2012 Hong Kong Arts Festival is currently underway, with more than 170 performances over five weeks by international superstars as well as local acts.
- Philadelphia’s musical roots
- Pennsylvania’s largest city – more famously known as the birthplace of American independence – is home to a surprising mix of pioneering artists and new sounds.
- Map your adventures
- Your smartphone can do more than pinpoint your position on a GPS-powered map. It can also help you plot potential sights and record your route as you go.
- The Titanic’s final resting place
- Beneath the handsome lighthouses, sweet fishing villages and multicoloured forests of Atlantic Canada lies a wild history of pirates, ghosts and shipwrecks.
- Sweden’s winter Sami festival
- Immerse yourself in one of the world’s oldest nomadic cultures at the Sami Jokkmokk Market festival in Swedish Lapland, with folk dancing, reindeer racing and dogsledding all on…
- Sunken rum in the Cayman Islands
- Grand Cayman’s Seven Fathoms Distillery ages its local liquor in wooden barrels located seven fathoms underwater.
- Business trip: Rio de Janeiro
- Business travellers are beating a path to Brazil, and for good reason.
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Un corresponsal de la BBC relata en primera persona cómo se están viviendo los enfrentamientos entre los opositores y el ejército de Al Asad.
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Running on empty
Twelve months on from Egypt's revolution, visitor numbers have slumped and some stunning historical sites are near deserted, reports Michelle Jana Chan.
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