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Superhero movies 3min ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles leave Comic-Con audience in shell shock

25 Jul 2014:
Jonathan Liebesman's big-screen reboot of the reptilian Renaissance men formed the centrepiece of Paramount's Comic-Con presentation
Plane crashes 5min ago

No survivors as Air Algérie wreckage found by French troops in Mali

25 Jul 2014: Hollande confirms military drone discovered downed plane near Burkino Faso border and that all 118 on board perished
Gaza 31min ago

Palestinian protests to continue as Israel considers military options

25 Jul 2014:
Medics say 120 protesters being treated for gunshot wounds as Israeli security cabinet to discuss ground operation and ceasefire
Wearable technology 33min ago

Vibrating smartshoes put Google Maps at your feet

25 Jul 2014: The creator of the Lechal smartshoes says we may leave the house without a smartwatch, but we'll never leave the house without shoes. By Samuel Gibbs
Iran 51min ago

Washington Post's Tehran reporter and three other journalists arrested in Iran

25 Jul 2014: Jason Rezaian, his wife who works for a UAE-based newspaper, and two American photojournalists detained in unknown location
Food safety 1hr 38min ago

McDonald's Japan stops buying chicken from China after expired meat scandal

25 Jul 2014: Japanese restaurants will now source chicken from Thailand, while Hong Kong outlets have taken chicken products off menu
Greenpeace 2hr 17min ago

Greenpeace staff call on top executive to quit for commuting by plane

25 Jul 2014: Over 40 staff write internal letter saying Pascal Husting's 'flying scandal' has damaged the group's reputation
Gaza 2hr 20min ago

West Bank rage at Gaza bloodshed as protests erupt over UN school attack

25 Jul 2014: Palestinian Authority calls for 'day of rage' after women and children are killed by Israeli shelling while seeking shelter
South Korea ferry disaster 2hr 26min ago

South Korea ferry tycoon Yoo Byung-un died of unknown causes

25 Jul 2014: Tests on the body of businessman who owned boat that sank and killed 304 people failed to determine what killed him
Greenslade 2hr 55min ago

Four journalists, including Washington Post correspondent, detained in Iran

25 Jul 2014:
Press freedom group calls for their immediate release
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 3hr 7min ago

MH17: Australia ready to send police to secure crash site

25 Jul 2014: Tony Abbott says 90 police officers are ready to be deployed to eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines plane was downed
Malaysia 3hr 41min ago

Malaysia ferry sinks with loss of life

25 Jul 2014: Three bodies recovered and eight people missing as boat taking Indonesians home for Eid al-Fitr sinks off southern Malaysia
Gaza 5hr 18min ago

West Bank erupts in protest over Gaza onslaught - video

25 Jul 2014: Video (46 sec)
Thousands of Palestinians have demonstrated against Israel's assault on Gaza, where the death toll has topped 760, with most of those killed civilians and many of them children
Gaza 6hr 21min ago

Gaza: attack on UN school 'appalling', says humanitarian chief

25 Jul 2014: Valerie Amos says UN not deliberately targeted by Israel but 'blatant violations' of human rights have taken place in conflict
Commonwealth Games 2014 11hr 31min ago

Queen photobombs Hockeyroo Jayde Taylor’s Commonwealth Games selfie

25 Jul 2014: Australian hockey player Jayde Taylor’s selfie was photobombed by the Queen at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre
School sports 12hr 13min ago

School PE lessons putting girls off sport, MPs' report finds

25 Jul 2014: With 2 million fewer women than men playing regular sport, MPs call for schools to take girls' exercise more seriously
Amazon.com 12hr 38min ago

Amazon posts huge loss in second quarter, despite sales rise

25 Jul 2014: Revenue rises to 23% to $19.34bn but losses increase as it spends heavily on first smartphone, Fire Phone
Capital punishment 14hr 44min ago

'Judge, I just learned that the IV team leader has confirmed Mr Wood’s death'

25 Jul 2014: Lawyers tried to persuade judge to halt execution of Joseph Wood in emergency motion filed 90 minutes into procedure

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Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 15 and leaves 200 wounded

Shelling of UNRWA school condemned by UN, saying it asked IDF for time to evacuate civilians, which was not given
MH17 crash: sanctions against Russia are illegal, ambassador claims

Moscow insists documents that show Russians armed the separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines plane are forged
Air Algérie flight AH5017 crash brings week's air death toll to 450

François Hollande summons key ministers to crisis meeting after plane comes down with 116 people on board, 51 of them French
Isis denies ordering that all girls in Mosul undergo FGM

Doubts grow over UN report, seemingly reliant on year-old document from Syria thought to have been doctored
Sudanese woman spared death for apostasy meets Pope Francis

Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced to death for apostasy in May, sparking an international campaign to save her life
Arizona lawyers lead call for inquiry into Joseph Wood's two-hour execution

Inmate's attorneys seek independent investigation into death that has reignited controversy about death penalty drug secrecy

Europe

No survivors as Air Algérie wreckage found by French troops in Mali

25 Jul 2014: Hollande confirms military drone discovered downed plane near Burkino Faso border and that all 118 on board perished

United States

'Judge, I just learned that the IV team leader has confirmed Mr Wood’s death'

Lawyers tried to persuade judge to halt execution of Joseph Wood in emergency motion filed 90 minutes into procedure
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Middle East

No survivors as Air Algérie wreckage found by French troops in Mali

25 Jul 2014: Hollande confirms military drone discovered downed plane near Burkino Faso border and that all 118 on board perished

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Asia Pacific

South Korea ferry tycoon Yoo Byung-un died of unknown causes

25 Jul 2014: Tests on the body of businessman who owned boat that sank and killed 304 people failed to determine what killed him
- Badly decomposed body found in South Korea is fugitive ferry tycoon, say police
- South Korean ferry crew on trial

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Africa

No survivors as Air Algérie wreckage found by French troops in Mali

25 Jul 2014: Hollande confirms military drone discovered downed plane near Burkino Faso border and that all 118 on board perished

China

China's red furniture craze fuelling illegal logging in Guinea-Bissau

Appetite for African rosewood has driven a surge in illegal deforestation that threatens to destabilise local communities
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South and Central Asia

India's rich to quadruple wealth in four years as ranks of multimillionaires grow

25 Jul 2014:
A sixth more people are worth at least £2.2m than a year ago and demand for luxury goods is on the rise

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Americas

Vladimir Putin denies Russia will soon reopen spybase in Cuba

18 Jul 2014:
Reports had suggested Soviet-era post near Havana would again be used, with US-Russia relations at post-cold war low

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