Nazi-themed Wagner opera cancelled

9 May 2013 Last updated at 05:03 ET A controversial production of a Wagner opera at one of the major German opera houses has been cancelled because of harrowing scenes involving Nazis. The Rheinoper, based in Dusseldorf, said some of the audience...

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Cleveland 'kidnapper' due in court

9 May 2013 Last updated at 06:36 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Footage shows Ariel Castro being led away by police, as Paul Adams reports The man suspected of imprisoning three women for several...

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Court condemns Bangladesh Islamist

9 May 2013 Last updated at 06:45 ET The deputy head of Bangladesh's opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party has been sentenced to death by the country's war crimes tribunal. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was found guilty on five out of seven counts of torture...

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Gunmen abduct Pakistan ex-PM's son

9 May 2013 Last updated at 07:05 ET Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says his son has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen during an election rally. Mr Gilani told the BBC his son Ali Haider - a candidate for the Pakistan...

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Police to quiz Cleveland suspects

8 May 2013 Last updated at 05:22 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Neighbours of Ariel Castro speak to the BBC Police investigating the abduction of three women for about a decade in Cleveland,...

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Arrests over $50m diamond heist

8 May 2013 Last updated at 06:37 ET Police in Belgium, Switzerland and France have arrested 31 people in connection with one of the world's largest robberies of diamonds. Belgian prosecutors say they have recovered large sums of money and some...

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PKK rebels 'begin leaving Turkey'

8 May 2013 Last updated at 07:03 ET Kurdish rebel fighters have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their safe havens in Iraq under a ceasefire, Kurdish sources say. "We know that they have started moving," Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish...

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Deaths as ship rams Genoa tower

8 May 2013 Last updated at 07:17 ET Continue reading the main story At least six people have died and four are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, officials say. The Jolly Nero smashed into...

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DR Congo 'worst place for mothers'

7 May 2013 Last updated at 05:17 ET The Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's toughest place to raise children, Save the Children reports. Finland was named the best place to be a mother, with Sweden and Norway following in second and...

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Missing US women found after decade

7 May 2013 Last updated at 05:52 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A neighbour, Charles Ramsey, tells reporters: "We had to kick open the bottom of the door" Three young women who vanished in separate...

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US accuses China of cyber-spying

7 May 2013 Last updated at 06:04 ET China's government and military have targeted US government computers as part of a cyber espionage campaign, a US report on China says. Intrusions were focused on collecting intelligence on US diplomatic,...

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Libyan minister quits over siege

7 May 2013 Last updated at 07:07 ET Libya's Defence Minister Mohammed al-Barghathi has resigned in protest over a siege by gunmen on the ministries of justice and foreign affairs. The militiamen had been demanding the introduction of a law banning...

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Evidence Syria rebels 'used sarin'

6 May 2013 Last updated at 05:03 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Carla del Ponte: "I was a little bit stupefied by the first indication of the use of nerve gas by the opposition" Testimony from...

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Malaysia PM urges unity after win

6 May 2013 Last updated at 05:30 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The election commission confirmed the result hours after polls closed Malaysia's governing coalition has called for national reconciliation...

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Neo-Nazi trial opens in Germany

6 May 2013 Last updated at 06:02 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC's Stephen Evans: "The authorities have admitted that things went wrong" An alleged member of a German neo-Nazi cell has...

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Bangladesh protest clashes 'kill 15'

6 May 2013 Last updated at 07:12 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators At least 15 people are reported to have been killed and...

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Deadly blast hits Mogadishu convoy

5 May 2013 Last updated at 04:58 ET A car bomb has exploded near a government convoy in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least seven people, officials say. A police spokesman told AFP news agency a suicide attacker had driven a car...

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Dhaka riot police battle Islamists

5 May 2013 Last updated at 06:43 ET Police in Bangladesh have used tear gas and rubber bullets in a clash with conservative Islamist protesters in the capital Dhaka. Thousands of activists from Hefajat-e-Islam blocked highways, isolating Dhaka...

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Polls close in tight Malaysian vote

5 May 2013 Last updated at 07:05 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jonathan Head reports from a polling station queue in Kuala Lumpur, where he says there was an ''unprecedented turnout'' Voting...

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Damascus 'hit by Israeli strikes'

5 May 2013 Last updated at 07:16 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Syrian journalist Alaa Ebrahim describes the attack as like 'a mild earthquake' Syria has accused Israel of launching rocket attacks...

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Major wildfires spread in California

3 May 2013 Last updated at 22:01 ET More than 3,000 firefighters are battling six major wildfires in California, the state fire agency says. One of the fiercest blazes has shut the famous Pacific Coast Highway for the second time in as many...

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Maduro alleges assassination plot

4 May 2013 Last updated at 00:52 ET Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused former Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe of plotting to assassinate him. Mr Maduro said he had evidence that right-wing Venezuelan poluticians had been involved...

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Burial wrangle for Boston suspect

4 May 2013 Last updated at 04:44 ET The search is on for a cemetery to bury Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as protesters picket the funeral home holding his body. The director of the funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, likened...

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Syrians flee coastal 'massacres'

4 May 2013 Last updated at 06:55 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jim Muir in Lebanon reports: "Activist groups gave the names of 50 people who they said were butchered in al-Bayda" Hundreds of...

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