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A Palestinian medic escorts an injured girl in Gaza City's Shifa Hospital
UN chief demands Gaza ceasefire
Ban Ki-moon urges UN leaders to act swiftly to end the crisis in Gaza as Israel says it will allow in more aid.
Venezuela expels Israeli envoy
Strike at school 'kills 30'
Bowen: Mourning the young
Brown warns of 'darkest' time
Aid worker diary: Exhaustion
Gaza conflict map

Pilgrims flagellate themselves on the eve of Ashura Women banned from Baghdad shrine
Iraqi authorities close a major shrine in Baghdad to women amid security concerns as the religious ceremony of Ashura reaches its climax.

Beijing West Railway Station China's holiday rush begins early
Migrant workers make an early start home for the Lunar New Year as China's economic slowdown leaves many jobless.


VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Interior shot of Basra Palace Museum plan for Saddam's palace

Huge undersea 'wall' found
Disneyland, China Spectacular fireworks at China's ice festival

One-Minute World News

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Philip Schiller addresses Macworld Expo 2009 Fizzling out
No iPhone buzz for fans at Apple's last Macworld show
Priests at the Orthodox Christmas Eve service in Christ the Saviour cathedral, Moscow. In pictures
Christmas time for Orthodox Christians around the world
Robert Mugabe surrounded by soldiers Year of change?
Mugabe's exit and other forecasts for Africa in 2009

AROUND THE WORLD

AFRICA
Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs
Zuma 'seeks to take third wife'

AMERICAS
Israeli envoy to Caracas expelled
Blackwater guards plead innocence

ASIA-PACIFIC
Tremor hits West Papua quake area
Toyota shuts plants for 11 days

EUROPE
Mob drama gets Scorsese backing
Bulgaria urges return to nuclear

MIDDLE EAST
New US embassy opens in Baghdad
Baghdad bomb kills Shia pilgrims

SOUTH ASIA
Singh accuses Pakistan on Mumbai
Gunmen raid Sri Lanka TV station

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
Afghanistan's continuing misery
What Cubans brought to Miami


FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Burrowing parrot Parrot paradise?
World's biggest parrot colony faces growing pressures
Poster reading "stealing is a sin" Buyers beware
Europeans uneasy over Russia's role as gas supplier
Gas pressure gauge in Ukraine Pressure rising
Russia ups ante in bitter gas dispute with Ukraine
OTHER TOP STORIES
European gas supplies disrupted
German billionaire kills himself
Apple to end music restrictions
Senate snub as US Congress opens
Gunmen kidnap Nigerian novelist
Congo rebels back 'ousted' chief
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Okada rider in Abuja [file photo] Nigerian motorcyclists wear pumpkins to evade helmet law

Woman playing tennis Females 'less physically active' than males at both ends of life

SPORT HEADLINES
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