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BBC News - WorldThe latest stories from the World section of the BBC News web site.
Nato leaders are meeting in Chicago in a summit dominated by the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Egyptians are preparing to head to the polls in their first free presidential election and for many the biggest issue is tackling the widespread poverty in the country.
Marc Cieslak reports on why it is hoped that technology in India will make it more difficult to take money away from the people who really need it.
A fire in an office building in Mexico City prompted the evacuation of 600 people and the rescue of about a dozen office workers who were trapped on the roof of the building.
Eurozone leaders are meeting in Brussels for another round of talks on the economic bloc's massive debts and possible strategies for growth.
The kidnapping of 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Syria has sparked angry protests in Beirut, adding to fears that Lebanon is being dragged into the unrest afflicting its neighbour.
The economic crisis in Greece is forcing families to seek help from children's homes according to one charity.
When visiting Canada's Atlantic coast you are likely to hear a lot about the history of its people but there is one group you probably won't know too much about, reports Rajan Datar.
One of world's largest private cognac collections has gone on sale in Holland, including bottles dating back to the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.
A painting of the South African President Jacob Zuma has been vandalised at a gallery in Johannesburg.
A black farm worker has been found guilty of the murder of the South African white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche.
Huge queues form outside polling stations in Egypt as hundreds of thousands of people cast their votes in the country's first free presidential election.
A group of six world powers is due to hold fresh talks with Iran about its controversial nuclear programme.
California's SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station - the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company.
A 6,200 tonne building is being moved 60 metres to make way for the expansion of a railway in Zurich.
Egyptians are voting in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising.
A man has survived a fall of more than 50 metres into the raging waters of Niagara Falls.
Greece's former prime minister told Kirsty Wark that it would be a "much worse choice" for Greece to leave the euro.
Spencer Kelly reports on how farmers in India are using mobile phone technology to help ease their workload.
Egyptians are preparing to go to the polls in the first leadership vote since the toppling of President Mubarak.
A senior Olympic official was willing to sell thousands of pounds worth of tickets to the London 2012 Games for cash, an undercover BBC London investigation reveals.
The former Sri Lankan army chief, Sarath Fonseka, has been freed after two years in prison.
The BBC's John Sudworth meets the Chinese entrepreneurs targeting the world's biggest mobile phone market.
A US student convicted of using a webcam to secretly film his room-mate in a gay encounter has been sentenced to 30 days in prison.
Panorama meets an Azeri man questioned by officials for casting a controversial Eurovision vote.
Interim Mali President Dioncounda Traore has been taken to hospital with a head wound after being attacked by demonstrators, officials say.
More than half of the population Tajikistan lives below the poverty line and malnutrition is the cause of a third of child mortality.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake in northern Italy kills at least six people, causing serious damage to buildings in several towns.
A group of indigenous people in Brazil living near the main World Cup stadium, Maracana, fear they will be evicted to make way for a car-park.
At least 96 people have been killed and many more have been injured in a suicide bombing in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
After the war in the 1990s, Sierra Leone has taken another symbolic step away from its wartime image as the home of the "blood diamond".
The death of the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been received with mixed emotions by the relatives of the victims.
Millions of people across the Pacific witnessed an annular eclipse, which resulted in a 'ring of fire'.
Filipino Christians have protested against Lady Gaga's planned concerts in Manila.
Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential elections since the uprising will take place on the 23rd and 24th of May. What could be in store for the country?
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, updates his status on his own Facebook page to announce he has married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic is elected president of Serbia beating incumbent Boris Tadic in a run-off vote, and vowing to stay on the EU path.
Although the Maldives are known as an unspoilt tourist paradise, the islands struggle with managing their waste, as the BBC discovered on a visit to an 'apocalyptic' island waste dump.
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has been buried in a private ceremony in a western suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has arrived in Tehran, voicing optimism about reaching agreement on Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York with his wife and children to begin a new life in the United States.
As the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro grows, the BBC's Tim Whewell reports from the small Greek town of Lavrion to find out what life is like when the money runs out.
South Africa is to opens its first theatre in a township - Soweto - once home to former President Nelson Mandela.
Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says NATO's role in Afghanistan will shift from "combat to support".
LJ Rich takes a look at the low-cost tablets battling Apple's dominance in India.
The island of Bastoey is home to a prison population that is allowed to wander woods, fields and beaches unhindered by the unarmed guards.
World leaders travel to Chicago in the US for the Nato summit, where it is hoped an aid plan for Afghanistan will be agreed.
Pakistan's government has imposed a countrywide ban on the social media website Twitter.
A bomb has exploded in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing at least one girl and injuring six others.
One hundred couples have been married in a mass wedding in Nigeria's second city, Kano.
At least seven people are killed and dozens injured after a car bomb explodes in eastern Syria.
Sri Lanka marks the three-year anniversary of the end of its 26-year civil war with a large military parade in the capital, Colombo.
The operation to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia will be the biggest of its kind, at a cost reported to be at least $300m, according to salvage firms and the ship's owners.
At the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 two black medal winners made a significant political statement by raising their fists on the winners' podium.
In one of the largest and most high-profile share flotations of recent years, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, rang the opening bell of the Nasdaq exchange.
Thousands of members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force have taken part in a parade and flypast to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The Spanish government has announced that the level of bad loans held by the country's banks is at an 18-year high.
A bomb explodes in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing at least one girl and injuring six others.
Film director Simon Bright discusses his new film about Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's triumphs and failings.
France has confirmed it plans to withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, two years ahead of the agreed Nato schedule.
Relatives of the blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, have given detailed accounts of the torture and retribution they have allege
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With rising crime and suicide rates, Greek comic Katerina Vrana explores the human cost of the financial crisis in her homeland.
Barn owls used to catch mice and rats in the fields of Jordan and Israel are breeding in specially set-up nesting boxes.
Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
Sacha Baron Cohen steps out of character to give a rare interview as himself, but admits it is 'probably a mistake'.
A notorious Belfast prison that held IRA inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian troubles is to be transformed into a whiskey distillery.
Italy has a history for creating spectacular architecture, as seen in cities like Rome and Venice, yet one town in Sicily has found itself blighted by modern building disasters.
Nearly half of babies in Malawi are affeced by stunted growth because of malnutrition.
World leaders are gathering at Camp David in the US, for talks dominated by the unresolved crisis in the Eurozone.
Passengers on New York's subway system are familiar with the sight of buskers performing for the crowds, but the musicians who play underground must be scrutinised before earning a spot there.
A team of speed flyers have become the world's first to successfully descend Italy's Mount Etna.
One of the biggest floatations ever seen on world stock markets will take place today when shares in the social networking site Facebook go on sale.
Tens of thousands of Chilean students take to the streets to demand free education.
A recent wave of attacks at schools in Afghanistan is forcing the Ministry of Education to close down schools across 11 provinces.
The leader of a left-wing party in Greece, Alexis Tsipras, looks likely to do best in next month's election and there is increasing speculation that Greece could be forced out of the euro if his party wins.
The Pakistani government appears to be on the verge of lifting its six-month blockade on the transport of Nato goods through Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Michelle Jana Chan gives her top travel ideas for the coming weeks including watching Alaska's brown bears feasting on wild salmon as they head up river.
A Soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial for war crimes at The Hague.
Bruce Willis and Bill Murray were amongst the stars on the red carpet for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.
Benoit Coueure, from the European Central Bank, has been speaking about their decision to provide a loan of more than a trillion euros to hundreds of banks.
Mexicans pay tribute to one of Latin America's greatest authors, Carlos Fuentes, who died on 15 May in Mexico City.
The Olympic flame is to be passed to London on Thursday evening, after a week-long relay around Greece.
