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VIDEO: Paid mourners banned in Kenya

3 hours 2 min ago
Every Thursday and Friday, Kenya's third largest city, Kisumu, grinds to a halt as hundreds of motorcyclists block the roads.
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VIDEO: Riots over Belgium austerity plans

5 hours 20 min ago
Riot police have fired tear gas and water cannon during clashes with demonstrators as at least 100,000 people marched through Brussels in the first mass protests against government austerity measures.
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VIDEO: Why have oil prices been so volatile?

8 hours 8 min ago
The BBC looks at why the price of oil has been so volatile recently.
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VIDEO: 'We got used to roofs crashing'

8 hours 56 min ago
A woman still living in Kobane has described daily life in the city which is besieged by Islamic State militants.
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VIDEO: Boy, 13, vows to join IS extremists

10 hours 16 min ago
A 13-year-old boy has told the BBC of his plans to join Islamic State, after watching jihadist videos and chatting to IS fighters online.
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VIDEO: US woman found safe after kidnapping

10 hours 26 min ago
A woman whose abduction was caught on CCTV has been safely found in the US state of Maryland, police have said.
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VIDEO: Hi-tech headset to guide blind people

10 hours 55 min ago
Rory Cellan-Jones meets volunteers in Reading trialling a headset that talks visually impaired people around cities.
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VIDEO: Mexicans march over missing students

11 hours 5 min ago
Thousands of Mexicans have been marching through the streets of Mexico City to protest against the pace of investigations on the whereabouts of 43 missing student teachers.
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VIDEO: AC/DC drummer in murder plot charge

11 hours 20 min ago
Phil Rudd, the drummer of the hard rock group AC/DC, appears in a New Zealand court on charges of attempting to arrange a murder.
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VIDEO: How is malware affecting Apple tech?

11 hours 31 min ago
New malware targeting Apple products is mostly affecting Chinese users, warned an online security researcher.
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VIDEO: Morocco: 'Only God can help'

12 hours 11 min ago
Morocco's three largest trade unions staged a 24 hour strike against subsidy cuts, so has the country reached tipping point over these economic reforms?
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VIDEO: Man saved after two days in Pacific

14 hours 9 min ago
Dramatic footage shows the moment a Colombian man was plucked from the Pacific Ocean after two days at sea.
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VIDEO: UN 'lacks resources' to fight Ebola

14 hours 24 min ago
The head of the UN mission charged with fighting Ebola tells the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.
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VIDEO: Gay Iranians facing sex change call

15 hours 38 min ago
Ali Hamedani reports on the gay people from Iran faced with a choice of gender reassignment surgery or death.
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VIDEO: Mali medics test Ebola vaccine

15 hours 49 min ago
Anne Soy reports on the Mali health workers receiving experimental doses of a new vaccine against Ebola.
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VIDEO: Ebola chief: 'This disease is still a crisis'

16 hours 12 min ago
The United Nations mission charged with fighting Ebola does not yet have the capacity to defeat the disease, the operation's head tells the BBC
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VIDEO: Suu Kyi warns of 'stalled' reforms

Wed, 2014-11-05 19:20
Reforms in Myanmar have "stalled", pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi warns.
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VIDEO: Deadly car attack in Jerusalem

Wed, 2014-11-05 15:49
A Palestinian has driven a car into several pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a policeman, hours after clashes at the city's holiest site.
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VIDEO: Libyan cadet claims 'poor treatment'

Wed, 2014-11-05 15:35
A Libyan soldier has spoken to BBC News from the Cambridgeshire barracks at the centre of Britain's controversial training mission for the Libyan army.
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VIDEO: France deluged with massive rainfall

Wed, 2014-11-05 09:04
Rain soaked southern France swept with more torrents
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