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Muslim leaders take trip to Nazi concentration camps

The search for continental unity, 50 years on

The Boy Scouts of America organisation votes to accept openly gay scouts, after a divisive campaign pitting liberals against some religious groups.

The English phrases readers love to hear spoken by the French

Suicide bombers target a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in north-western Niger leaving at least 20 people dead, officials say.

The stories behind Rome's gleaming cobblestones

South African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is "cool"

Nasa is looking for commercial operators to lease a historic launch pad in Florida used for the first Moon missions and by the Atlantis shuttle.

The WHO urges countries with possible cases of novel coronavirus to share information amid concern over patent rights held by commercial labs.

Developing countries are trying to stop mining companies shifting billions of dollars in profits out of their countries, depriving them of much-needed tax revenue.

Four countries in Latin America - Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru - have agreed to scrap most of the tariffs on trade between their four countries.

How German football reinvented itself

The US tax official who supervised agents that targeted conservative groups for scrutiny ahead of the 2012 election is placed on leave, officials say.

The soldier killed on a London street is named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, as two more people are held.

Former QPR boss Mark Hughes emerges as a leading contender to replace Tony Pulis as Stoke City manager.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, visiting London's City district, says he sees "encouraging signs of tangible improvements" in the UK economy.

Some 300,000 people have fled fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of 2013, the UN's top aid official Valerie Amos warns.

Thousands of mourners attend the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town of Ogidi in Anambra state.

President Obama defends the use of drones as a "just war" of self-defence against deadly militants, and a campaign that has made America safer.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told the BBC that a UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo will protect the civilian population