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Smoke from the Wallow wildfire obscure the sunTwo friends talk about the approaching Willow wildfire which started at the end of May in the Bear… 11/06/11 13:51 CET
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Gay Pride marches take place across EuropeJune is Gay and Lesbian pride month – and marches are taking place across Europe. In deeply… 11/06/11 22:34 CET
Reports of 1500 migrants arriving at LampedusaThree boats carrying an estimated 1500 migrants from North Africa arrived off the southern Italian… 11/06/11 19:32 CET
Albertina Sisulu funeral held in SowetoThousands of people have turned out for the funeral of one of South Africa’s leading anti-apartheid… 11/06/11 19:25 CET
Small explosion at Ikea in DresdenAfter Belgium, France and the Netherlands it was the turn of the Ikea store in Dresden to be… 11/06/11 19:24 CET
“Head” of Al Qaeda in East Africa dead – policeThe security services in Somalia say they have killed the man believed to be the head of Al Qaeda… 11/06/11 19:13 CET
Anti-corruption protest taken to Madrid’s City HallHundreds of people have blockaded the streets around Madrid’s City Hall, as the new mayor was sworn… 11/06/11 17:24 CET
Duke of Cambridge’s first Trooping the ColourIt is the Queen’s official birthday, just a day after her husband Prince Phillip reached the grand… 11/06/11 17:03 CET
Election campaign ends in TurkeyWho will lead Turkey through the next four years? The opinion polls say Prime Minister Recep… 11/06/11 15:34 CET
Protests mark three-month Fukishima anniversaryIt is three months to the day since a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami laid waste to a swathe of… 11/06/11 15:03 CET
Syrian helicopter gunships fire on civiliansSyria has reportedly deployed helicopter gunships for the first time to repress popular protests… 11/06/11 12:33 CET
Japan’s north-east awaits reconstructionJapan’s prime minister visits the tsunami-sticken north-east of his country today to see how life… 11/06/11 10:24 CET
Bean sprouts cause of e-coli says GermanyWhile you should still be careful about bean sprouts, it seems it is safe to go back to eating… 11/06/11 09:36 CET
Palin mails releasedMore than 24,000 pages of emails to and from Sarah Palin while she was Governor of Alaska have been… 11/06/11 09:08 CET
Peace caravan arrives in Mexican hot spotMexico’s Caravan For Peace has reached the country’s most dangerous city – Ciudad Juarez. The… 11/06/11 09:08 CET
Spanish police unmask Anonymous hackersSpanish police have arrested three suspected members of the hacker group Anonymous. The men… 11/06/11 09:08 CET
Scores dead in fighting in LibyaHeavy fighting around the rebel-held Libyan town of Misrata has left at least 30 people dead, while… 11/06/11 04:03 CET
Drought declared in UK as Europe suffersAn official state of drought has been declared in some parts of Britain after the driest spring on… 11/06/11 02:03 CET
Election campaigning comes to a close in TurkeyTurkey’s prime minister has turned up the heat on his rivals as campaigning comes to a close ahead… 11/06/11 00:53 CET
Damascus sends gunships in as protests continueThe Syrian army is said to have deployed air power against protesters for the first time but there… 11/06/11 00:14 CET
