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- Syria troops step up Homs bombing
- Heavy artillery fire rocks the restive Syrian city of Homs, in what anti-government activists are calling one of the fiercest assaults yet.
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- Pakistan v England
- England lose their third wicket, chasing 324 to beat Pakistan on the fourth day of the third Test.
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- Sunday's football photos
- Capturing all the action and all the surprises of a packed day of Premier League football.
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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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- Avoiding Syria's secret police
- For a correspondent in Syria, getting the true story and protecting contacts is a game of cat and mouse. For those struggling for democracy, it's one of life and death, writes Tim Whewell in Damascus.
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- Moving to make it work
- The obstacles in the path to a successful relocation have less to do with what is happening at the office and more to do with what is going on at home, says vice-president of Brookfield Global Recruitment Service.
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Giants edge Patriots in stunner
The New York Giants come from behind to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 with a dramatic last-minute touchdown in Indianapolis.
Bailout talks to resume in Greece
Party leaders in Greece are to resume crisis talks on new austerity measures demanded by EU leaders in return for funds needed to avoid defaulting on its debts.
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Fabio Capello says he disagrees with the decision to remove John Terry as England captain.
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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.
Health
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Diabetes 'ups birth defect risk'
The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.
Technology
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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.
Science & Environment
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PM urged to cut wind farm subsidy
More than 100 Conservatives are among MPs who have written to the prime minister calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines.
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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Los planificadores de las olimpíadas diseñaron un plan de construcción que busca reducir el consumo de energía, la contaminación y, de paso, recuperar ambientalmente una deprimida zona industrial del este de la ciudad.
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In disguise
Click's Spencer Kelly explains the clever ways that malicious software changes itself to avoid detection.
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