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The UN hears testimony from North and South Korea on the sunken Southern warship Cheonan - an issue souring ties on the peninsula.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks mass on the Uzbekistan border, seeking to flee violence in Kyrgyzstan which has left 138 dead.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

US President Barack Obama says the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

Afghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits, a spokesman for the ministry of mines suggests.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne is recovering in hospital after a car crash on Newcastle's Quayside.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

Wet Wet Wet keyboard player is ordered take part in a domestic violence programme after admitting assaulting his girlfriend.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

Kyrgyzstan's interim government gives shoot-to-kill powers to security forces after nearly 80 deaths in ethnic violence.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

A transatlantic bet between the UK and US ambassadors over the result of the England v USA game means they will have to pay for their own mealsThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sit...

A 7.5 earthquake strikes near the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, but tsunami warnings are later cancelled.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...

A chemistry professor says that if the World Cup trophy was really solid gold it would be too heavy for footballers to lift.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ...