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An attack by gunmen in eastern Ethiopia leaves 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese oil workers dead, officials say. More Info...  

CBS Radio in the US suspends two DJs for a prank on-air call that angered Chinese groups. More Info...  

A Syrian human rights activist is jailed for five years for spreading "hostile information", lawyers say. More Info...  

Now that media giants have pulled the plug on Don Imus, the debate has moved to rap lyrics and the limits of free speech. But what we should really address is the hypocrisy of those who blasted Imus for insulting comments about African-Americans and then proceeded to repeat insulting comments about Mexican-Americans?

The man tipped to be Turkey's next president, foreign minister Gul, backs secularism, despite Islamist links. More Info...  

China could overtake the US this year as the largest greenhouse gas emitter, energy agency officials say. More Info...  

Rap label boss Russell Simmons says three sexist and racist words should be banned from hip-hop songs. More Info...  

The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement says its five-month truce with Israel is over. More Info...  

Japan's Toyota overtakes US rival General Motors to become the world's biggest carmaker, the company says. More Info...  

Nigerians must resist the "wholescale fraud" of Saturday's presidential elections, the opposition says. More Info...  

Scientists express concerns over the use of autonomous decision-making robots, particularly for military use. More Info...  

A Japanese businessman accused of raping and killing British bar hostess Lucie Blackman is jailed for life. More Info...  

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Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.Russian President Vladimir Putin pays tribute to his 'bold' predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who has died, aged 76. More Info...  

The UN secretary general calls for an end to fighting in Somalia, where 250 people have died in six days. More Info...  

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, a Kremlin spokesman confirmed today. He became the first democratically elected president of Russia in 1991. A funeral and day of mourning has been scheduled for Wednesday, the Kremlin said.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam has died in a car accident in Menlo Park, California, near San Francisco, the San Mateo County coroner's office said Monday.

Their story reads like a figure skating fairy tale: Jessica Dube, a 19-year-old, French-speaker, and at 4 feet 11, a pixie princess. The handsome Bryce Davison, 21, was her English-speaking prince. Among Canada's top-ranked pairs skaters, they just clicked.

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say they have launched their second air strike, bombing a military base. More Info...  

The age at which a woman had her first period can help predict her children's risk of obesity, say UK researchers. More Info...