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Olympic challenge for Saudi women

Will Saudi women be allowed to compete at this year's London Olympics?

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- Racism in British schools
  25 May 2012
- Beijing cleans up its toilets
  24 May 2012
- Brazilians who won't play ball
  23 May 2012

2012 Video stories

- Cat café
  16 May 2012
- Tourism amongst the tanks
  9 May 2012
- Koalas at risk
  2 May 2012
- Football crosses ocean
  25 April 2012
- Motorcycle diaries
  18 April 2012
- No more traffic?
  11 April 2012
- Standing tall
  4 April 2012
- Mexican movers
  28 March 2012
- Singing grannies
  21 March 2012
- Packing a punch
  14 March 2012
- Making a splash
  7 March 2012
- Bean through an animal
  29 February 2012
- Carnival climax
  22 February 2012
- Cartoon capers in Afghanistan
  15 February 2012
- On thin ice?
  8 February 2012
- Canine cull
  1 February 2012
- London's Leaning Tower?
  25 January 2012
- Sealed fate
  18 January 2012
- Leap of Faith
  11 January 2012

2012 News stories

- America's changing identity
  21 May 2012
- Global obesity on the rise
  18 May 2012
- HIV home testing
  17 May 2012
- Mutilations in Mexico
  15 May 2012
- Worst place to be a mother
  10 May 2012
- Sight problems for students in Asia
  8 May 2012
- Facebook organ donors
  3 May 2012
- Britain's new mayors
  1 May 2012
- Voting for God
  27 April 2012
- Drugs scandal hits China
  24 April 2012
- Acid attacks
  23 April 2012
- Sleepy teenagers
  19 April 2012
- Titanic 100 years on
  16 April 2012
- Bad manners means bad coffee!
  13 April 2012
- Herbal medicines and cancer
  12 April 2012
- Berlin nightclubs
  6 April 2012
- Ageing populations
  5 April 2012
- Presidential plagiarism
  2 April 2012
- Swallowing the dictionary
  April Fools Day 2012
- US healthcare on a knife edge
  27 March 2012
- A war of words
  20 March 2012
- Australia immigration abuse
  19 March 2012
- Chinese human traffic
  13 March 2012
- Kabul's first women-only internet cafe
  12 March 2012
- Colourful but dangerous
  9 March 2012
- Match fixing?
  5 March 2012
- City children suffering more
  1 March 2012
- Do women have unlimited human eggs?
  28 February 2012
- Calls to protect Australia's koalas
  23 February 2012
- Olympus camera scandal
  17 February 2012
- Eating 64-year-old food
  6 February 2012
- Europe's cold snap
  3 February 2012
- Internet privacy
  27 January 2012
- Scottish independence
  26 January 2012
- Vietnam land repossessions
  24 January 2012
- Rejecting Oxford
  19 January 2012
- Cruise disaster
  16 January 2012
- Kim Jung-un birthday
  9 January 2012

2012 Business stories

- British battle over GM crops
  4 May 2012
- New broadband for Africa?
  30 April 2012
- Are electric cars gaining ground?
  6 March 2012
- Towering fees for Big Ben
  16 March 2012
- Are Indian train fares fair?
  15 March 2012
- Swedish furniture giant accused
  2 March 2012
- Call for help for poorest farmers
  27 February 2012
- Twitter faces Brazilian lawsuit
  9 February 2012
- Jobs creation show criticised
  31 January 2012

2012 Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories

- Cashing in on the Olympics?
  22 May 2012
- Kapoor's Olympic Orbit
  14 May 2012
- Vidal Sassoon dies
  11 May 2012
- Explaining Hitler
  26 April 2012
- Monitoring the internet
  20 April 2012
- Thickening glaciers
  17 April 2012
- Thai Macbeth
  10 April 2012
- Eurozone unemployment
  3 April 2012
- Living on another planet
  30 March 2012
- New face, new future
  29 March 2012
- Russian football racism row
  23 March 2012
- Hands off Olympic athletes
  19 March 2012
- Great Barrier Reef under threat
  8 March 2012
- Citizen scientists
  6 March 2012
- Dictator disguise unwelcome at the Oscars
  24 February 2012
- Ocean life under threat
  21 February 2012
- Making way for Eurovision
  20 February 2012
- Rome drops Olympic bid
  16 February 2012
- Racism in football summit
  14 February 2012
- Speeches
  13 February 2012
- Why zebras have stripes
  10 February 2012
- London's booming Theatreland
  2 February 2012
- Development in autism diagnosis
  30 January 2012
- Ancient popcorn!
  23 January 2012
- Defending the Stradivarius
  13 January 2012
- Giant tuna is sold for record $736,000
  6 January 2012

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