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Two teenage girls escape alive in Jersey after their car flips over and lands 6m down an embankment.
The risk of violence is getting in the way of development in Afghanistan's Helmand province, finds the BBC's Jill McGivering.
Ahmed Rashid on the challenges facing Barack Obama in South Asia
World athletics boss Lamine Diack weighs into the London 2012 stadium row, accusing Olympics chief Jacques Rogge of showing a "lack of respect".
BBC News music reporter Ian Youngs reports from the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool.
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US stars dominate the MTV Europe Music Awards, with two prizes each for Britney Spears and 30 Seconds To Mars.
Keep up with the drama of US election day on 4 November on the BBC News website.
A US election night guide to check what will be happening when and what to look out for.
At least 15 people are reported injured as a car bomb explodes in a university car park in Pamplona, northern Spain.
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BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.
With retail sales figures proving to be gloomy across the UK, is the launch of a new upmarket shopping centre a good move?
Celtic go back to the top of the SPL on goal difference after a comprehensive 4-0 thrashing of Hamilton.
A bomb explodes outside a court in Spain's north-eastern Basque region, after a warning call from armed separatist group Eta.
Eleven Western tourists are freed in an operation near Sudan's border with Chad, 10 days after being kidnapped in Egypt.
A waste water pipe that straddles the Great Glen fault line is designed to withstand minor earthquakes.
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