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Nasa says human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. More Info...  

The military's controversial V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will head to Iraq for its first combat tour later this year, Marine officials announced Friday. After 18 years and $20 billion in development the aircraft will give the Marines more flexibility, officials said. The aircraft was redesigned after two accidents in 2000 that killed 23 Marines. Accidents in 1991 and 1992 killed seven. The Marines say the plane's problems are in the past.

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.Iraqi insurgents say they carried out the deadly attack on parliament, as MPs meet in a show of defiance. More Info...  

Cuban leader Fidel Castro is "almost totally recovered" from surgery, ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says. More Info...  

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Aids charities react angrily to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's opposition to HIV-positive migrants. More Info...  

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Moscow acts against UK-based tycoon Boris Berezovsky after he calls for President Putin to be ousted. More Info...  

More than 30,000 have so far signed an online petition for the release of the BBC's Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza. More Info...  

India's civil service is dropping plans to make female workers detail their menstrual cycles, a top official says. More Info...  

Australia require only 12.2 overs to reach their target of 92 and thrash Ireland by nine wickets in Barbados. More Info...  

Japan's lower house approves guidelines to amend the country's pacifist constitution for the first time. More Info...  

Julian Lennon sells a "significant" stake of his share in songs his father John wrote for The Beatles. More Info...  

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo signs a law giving amnesty for crimes committed during the civil war. More Info...  

Euro MPs say Singapore acted like an "authoritarian state" by refusing to allow them to speak during their visit. More Info...  

Investigators probing a football match-fixing scandal in Italy say they have evidence to charge 48 people. More Info...  

Brazilian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of carrying out about 1,000 contract killings in five years. More Info...  

Bloggers find new ways of avoiding the internet censors trying to silence dissent on the web. More Info...  

China's premier ends a key visit to Japan, saying ties are warmer but there are still problems to solve. More Info...