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- Barbie house protest
  17 May 2013
- Eating insects
  15 May 2013
- Pope creates new saints
  13 May 2013

2013 Video stories

- Print your own gun
  8 May 2013
- Jellyfish on show
  1 May 2013
- Subbuteo revival
  24 April 2013
- Lab-grown organ breakthrough
  17 April 2013
- Thatcher's legacy
  10 April 2013
- Musical miners
  3 April 2013
- Culture shock for Amazon student
  20 March 2013
- Attack survivor saves sharks
  13 March 2013
- Walrus seen in Scotland
  6 March 2013
- Mexico's father of fun
  27 February 2013
- Afghan dust art
  20 February 2013
- Ugly masks
  13 February 2013
- Penguins and sea lion returned to Atlantic
  6 February 2013
- Greeks cut forests to stay warm
  30 January 2013
- Tourists take on shark
  23 January 2013
- Shark fin discovery
  9 January 2013
- The fruits of hard labour
  2 January 2013

2013 News stories

- Haiti cholera victims threaten UN
  10 May 2013
- Switzerland limits immigration
  26 April 2013
- Chinese earthquake rescue
  22 April 2013
- Texas blast investigation
  19 April 2013
- Ex-Prime Minister Thatcher dies
  8 April 2013
- Obama's brain project
  5 April 2013
- From the ashes of Pompeii
  27 March 2013
- Monitoring microblogs
  11 March 2013
- Chavez's body to be preserved and displayed
  8 March 2013
- Wikileaks soldier reveals why he shared secrets
  1 March 2013
- Hotel living
  25 February 2013
- UN rejects claims from cholera victims
  22 February 2013
- Sri Lankan religious tensions
  18 February 2013
- Meteor hits Russia
  15 February 2013
- Ceremony for new Archbishop of Canterbury
  4 February 2013
- What does Europe want from Obama?
  21 January 2013
- Half of all food wasted
  11 January 2013
- Australian cigarette packaging
  7 January 2013

2013 Business Stories

- Cyprus tries to sort out its finances
  18 March 2013
- Horsemeat scandal widens
  11 February 2013
- Austerity for Chinese New Year
  8 February 2013
- Building a better future
  28 January 2013
- Italian car sales crash
  4 January 2013

2013 Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories

- Unlocking the secret to a longer life
  3 May 2013
- Drug-resistant malaria
  29 April 2013
- Goal-line technology
  15 April 2013
- Healthy chocolate
  12 April 2013
- The world's brightest city
  25 March 2013
- Chechen president's football outburst
  22 March 2013
- Battle of the bedbugs
  15 March 2013
- Beckham to help Chinese football
  4 March 2013
- Beyonce admits not singing live
  1 February 2013
- Listing all species on earth 'a possibility'
  25 January 2013
- Armstrong's confession
  18 January 2013

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