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Israeli bloggers are in general agreement in backing the Israeli armed forces' offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The Czech Republic will steer EU business from 1 January, but politics is less than sweet in the land that produced the sugar cube, Rob Cameron reports.

The BBC News website takes a look at some of the political words and phrases that made the headlines in 2008.

A British tourist has discovered almost 300 gold coins dating from the 7th Century at a dig just outside Jerusalem's Old City.

Ten people, including three children, have been rescued from a fire at a block of flats in East Sussex.

Efforts to save an historic Northumberland stately home for the nation are close to success, fundraisers say.

A complaint by former royal butler Paul Burrell against the News of the World newspaper is upheld by the Press Complaints Commission.

Old Vic creative director Kevin Spacey is honoured with a special prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

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A 75-year-man dies following a row with a couple who appeared to be fitness training near cliffs in East Sussex, police say.

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A inquiry is to be held into the care and treatment given to a woman before she stabbed her former lover to death.

A riding centre for disabled children is urgently seeking new volunteers.

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The site of an archaeological dig at a Kent Roman fort is to be opened to the public for just one weekend.

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Based on current polling averages, Obama is already above the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, writes Professor Larry Sabato.

A man is seriously injured in a car crash that killed a horse that had escaped from a field.

The BBC's Jonathan Head looks at the dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over their common border, and asks how far the spat is likely to go.

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