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Huge crowds protest in the Shia city of Najaf against US troops, four years after Saddam Hussein fell. More Info...  

The Ukrainian PM's supporters keep up the pressure on President Yushchenko in a power struggle. More Info...  

Up to 7,000 people are homeless on the Solomon Islands one week after the tsunami, says the Red Cross. More Info...  

A top director reveals plans to make the story of the Lockerbie bombing into a Hollywood film. More Info...  

Official campaigning in the French presidential election is under way ahead of first round polling on 22 April. More Info...  

The Kazakh government secures a multi-million dollar World Bank loan to help save the Aral Sea. More Info...  

Leading Seaman Faye Turney tells a newspaper she feared her Iranian captors were going to kill her. 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.Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr calls for Najaf protests four years after the fall of Saddam Hussein. More Info...  

Six Canadian soldiers serving with the Nato-led force in Afghanistan die after their vehicle is hit by an explosion. More Info...  

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Polls open in East Timor as eight candidates contest the first presidential election since independence in 2002. More Info...  

The presence of fat may override the beneficial anti-cancer effects of vitamin C in the stomach, research suggests. More Info...  

The Taleban say they have killed an Afghan journalist abducted last month with an Italian reporter. More Info...  

American Zach Johnson comes through the pack on a dramatic final day at Augusta to win his first major title. More Info...  

Anger mounts after the UK sailors captured by Iran are allowed to sell their stories to the media. More Info...  

Kevin Pietersen's first ODI century for two years is in vain as Australia beat England by seven wickets. More Info...  

Eight soldiers and a "village guard" die amid violence between Kurdish separatists and Turkey's government. More Info...  

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At least 18 Iraqis are killed in a large explosion in the town of Mahmudiya, and six US soldiers die in other attacks. More Info...  

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