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Overseas citizens are first to vote as France braces for the most unpredictable presidential poll in decades. More Info...  

Syrians elect a new parliament, but there is almost no contest and voters are not showing much interest. More Info...  

Brian Lara's final international ends in defeat as England clinch a one-wicket win over West Indies with one ball left. More Info...  

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.Elections for a new president and parliament in Nigeria are marked by violence and delays. More Info...  

Lyon are crowned French champions for the sixth successive season after nearest rivals Toulouse lost at Rennes. More Info...  

The Nasa gunman who killed himself and a colleague blamed his victim for a poor work review, US police say. More Info...  

Police said Saturday that a bad performance review may have led a NASA contractor to fatally shoot his supervisor and take another employee hostage before killing himself.

A top Sunni leader says a US project to build a wall around a Sunni area in Baghdad will breed more strife. More Info...  

Investigators Saturday were examining the computer and phone of the woman believed to be the Virginia Tech shooter's first victim, killed in West Ambler Johnston dormitory. Police want to know if there was any link between Emily Hilscher, 19, and the killer, Seung-Hui Cho, a warrant states. Classes will resume Monday, a week after 33 people died in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

Man Utd drop two points at home as Boro secure a deserved draw at Old Trafford. More Info...  

Cuba's Fidel Castro meets a Chinese delegate in what is thought to be his first official act since illness. More Info...  

A French appeal court upholds the conviction of 11 people in an infamous paedophilia case but acquits one. More Info...  

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan stages a mock election as it takes steps to end 100 years of monarchy. More Info...  

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The Taleban uses a boy aged about 12 to carry out the beheading of a man they say was spying for the US. More Info...  

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Billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi and two crew from the international space station return to Earth. More Info...  

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Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe defends his human rights record during a visit to Miami. More Info...