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- Gulf states fuel Syria isolation
- Gulf Arab states expel Syria's ambassadors, accusing Damascus of shunning Arab efforts to end months of bloodshed, as Russian officials visit President Assad.
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- Tuesday night football
- Blackpool beat Sheffield Wednesday in FA Cup, while Millwall win at Southampton in the other fourth-round replay.
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- A walking tour of Dickens’s London
- The 200th anniversary of novelist Charles Dickens’s birth is an excellent excuse for taking a walking tour of his old haunts, many of which remain today.
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- F1's new cars on the grid
- See the new machines that this year's teams hope will put them in poll position.
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- Greenery on guard
- For the first time, scientists at Exeter University have captured on film the process by which plants alert each other to possible dangers.
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- A change of direction
- The BBC's Lizo Mzimba meets actor Daniel Radcliffe, who has taken on the gothic-horror genre in his first film role since the Harry Potter franchise.
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- Surfing hippos, but a lack of visitors
- It wanted to become Africa's answer to Costa Rica - a magnet for eco-tourists. But turning Gabon's natural assets into tourist cash has been tougher than expected.
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- The value of Dickens
- In an exclusive piece of research for the BBC, consultancy Interbrand calculates the great novelist's worth in pounds and pennies.
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California court backs gay unions
A California court rules that a bar on same-sex unions is unconstitutional, in the latest stage of a long-running battle over the issue in the US state.
Skydiver planning 27-mile record bid
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian planning to sky dive from a record-breaking altitude, has announced he will make the attempt later this year.
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Lotus racer Kimi Raikkonen sets the fastest time on the first day of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Jerez, Spain.
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Jubilee gig line-up is announced
Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney are among the artists who will play at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in London in June.
Health
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'Birth defect risk' for diabetics
The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.
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Symantec code 'extortion' claim
Hackers demanded money in return for keeping stolen source code a secret, security firm Symantec says.
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'Invader' drives ladybird decline
Fast declines in some UK and European ladybirds are being caused by the spread of the invasive harlequin species, scientists show.
Travel
- A user’s guide to Texas barbecue
- Smokehouse culture is an obsession in the Lone Star State, whether you like your meat sliced thick onto butcher paper, doused with sauce or eaten straight out of the barbecue pit.
- Mini guide to Alentejo, Portugal
- This region is home to a captivating landscape of dry plains, gentle hills and dramatic coastlines, plus historic attractions, such as Moorish villages and wealthy medieval towns.
- New Zealand’s glowworm caves
- Take a boat tour through the Waitomo caves on New Zealand’s North Island for a spectacular subterranean experience that mimics the night sky.
- Should cars be a mobile-free space?
- In the US, a recent increase in accidents caused by distracted driving may lead to a total ban on mobile phone use behind the wheel — including hands-free or voice activated devices.
- Birmingham takes the culinary crown
- With points awarded for famous foods, local initiatives, retail shops and restaurants, Birmingham has beaten London and Edinburgh in a search for the UK’s foodiest town.
- Fishing for cod in the Atlantic
- Feel a bit of history and strenuously satisfying sport while bobbing off the coast of New England.
- Paris’ independent jewellers
- Boutique jewellers in the City of Light are creating unique, hand crafted and authentically French pieces that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
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La fusión de la compañía suiza y la inglesa Xstrata, valorada en US$ 90.000 millones, crea un gigante de la comercialización de productos básicos que es mirado con cautela por analistas. ¿Ha nacido un monopolio?
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海湾阿拉伯国家合作委员会决定驱逐叙利亚驻这个组织成员国的大使，以此作为对叙利亚当局暴力行动的回应。
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چین در تلاش است تا برای جبران کاهش واردات نفت از ایران، نفت مورد نیاز خود را از منابع دیگر تامین کند؛ اگر چه بر اساس برخی از گزارشها مقامات پکن در عین حال تلاش میکنند با مقامات ایرانی درخصوص قیمت ارزان تر نفت به توافق برسند.
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Wi-fi woes
Today's business traveller may have the devices of the future in their pockets - but poor wi-fi connections can make the gadgets almost useless.
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