A senior commander in the Pakistan Taliban last night announced it was planning terror strikes against targets in the US and Europe similar to the Times Square bomb plot.
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The European Union's trade chief has been accused of anti-Semitism referring to the power of the "Jewish lobby" in US policy and the difficulty of having "rational" discussions with Jews on the Middle East.
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The Pakistani Taliban has said it was behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 53 Shi'ite Muslims at a rally in the country's southwest.
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The bodies of two crew members have been recovered after a cargo plane crashed in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' civil aviation authority has said.
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BP has said the cost of tackling the Gulf of Mexico disaster has risen to £5.2bn - as fears were allayed over another rig blaze in the region.
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A British journalist's reputation has been restored after he won an Austrian
High Court libel over a claim, distributed internationally by Associated
Press (AP), that he made up interviews in his book.
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Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the comandante
of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public on Friday since
falling ill in 2006.
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A scientist who had stored a metal canister in his luggage was detained at
Miami airport during a security scare that shut down America's biggest
international gateway.
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A former diplomat, a television presenter and a doctor were among six people
found guilty of abusing 32 children at a Portuguese state-run children's
home.
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A Hare Krishna temple in Leicester is partly destroyed in an explosion, which is thought to have been caused by gas bottles being used for cooking.
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