Lost in the Dark Ride

A bomb attack on a police college east of Algiers kills 43 people and injures 38, according to Algeria’s interior ministry.

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Pakistan’s ruling coalition is to meet in Islamabad to discuss who will succeed long-time opponent Pervez Musharraf, after he quit.

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At least 25 people are killed in a suicide attack on a hospital in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, officials say.

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Pedigree dogs suffer from debilitating genetic diseases due to inbreeding, a BBC inquiry concludes.

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A big US bank is likely to collapse within months as the global financial crisis worsens, a former IMF chief economist warns.

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Despite fears in the run-up to the Olympic Games, the skies above Beijing have met clean-air standards, officials say.

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Ten French soldiers die in fighting east of Kabul in one of the heaviest losses suffered by peacekeepers in Afghanistan.

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Nato foreign ministers are meeting to discuss how to respond to Russia’s military action in Georgia.

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Zambia’s leader Levy Mwanawasa dies in a Paris hospital two months after suffering a stroke.

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In what is thought to be a world first, a wild dolphin is apparently teaching others to tail-walk.

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