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President Umaru Yar'Adua (file photo)
Nigeria's leader breaks silence
Nigeria's president, not seen since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia in November, tells the BBC he hopes to resume his duties.
Triple trouble for Yar'Adua
Power vacuum fears
Profile: Umaru Yar'Adua

Key US gay marriage case opens
The first US federal court case to determine whether states are allowed to ban same-sex marriages opens in California.

Anne Frank helper dies aged 100
The last surviving member of the group who helped hide Anne Frank from the Nazis dies in the Netherlands, aged 100.

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Pyramids Pyramids 'not built by slaves'

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
South African police officers walk past giant football (file photo) World Cup 'risks'
Angola attack turns spotlight on South Africa tournament
A US military cargo plane takes off from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan - 17 December 2009 Airbase angst
US-Japan ties tested over Okinawa facility
Rupert Hamer Blood price
Mark Urban on what drives war correspondents

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TECHNOLOGY
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Free laptop scheme is rolled out
ENTERTAINMENT

Gervais plans stand-up world tour

French director Eric Rohmer dies

HEALTH

MRSA 'spread by moving patients'

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Protection status for Lundy sea

Action urged on nature 'crisis'

AROUND THE WORLD NOW

AFRICA

Angola 'arrests' over Togo attack

Ivory Coast 0-0 Burkina Faso

AMERICAS

Six soldiers die in Afghanistan

Chavez warns price 'speculators'

ASIA-PACIFIC

Indonesia army reforms 'failed'

China announces interceptor test

EUROPE

Ashton seeks 'more credible' EU

Berlusconi returns to public view

MIDDLE EAST

Iran's Karroubi defies 'threats'

Yemen warned against 'occupation'

SOUTH ASIA

Indian soldier killed in Kashmir

India-Bangladesh sign agreements

NEWS FROM THE UK

9 Platoon, C Company, 3rd battalion, The Rifles in Northern Helmand on 9 January Fifth of soldiers 'unfit for war'
Almost 5,000 soldiers and officers - or one in five army personnel - are unfit for frontline combat duties, MoD figures show.

Cuts 'will erode UK universities'

Campbell to face Iraq war inquiry
Lunchbox Healthy lunchboxes a rarity, study says
Only 1% of primary school pupil's packed lunches meet nutritional standards set for school meals in England, a study suggests.

Christmas sales beat expectations

First jury-less trial to be heard

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Cost of leaving the ultra-orthodox Jewish community
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Euro MPs quiz UK nominee for EU foreign policy chief

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Togo's Nations Cup exit confirmed
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