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VIDEO: Inside town bearing brunt of strikes

Sat, 2014-08-02 19:06
Since a 72-hour ceasefire collapsed, bombings in Gaza have been intense and hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of casualties.
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VIDEO: The man who helped save 50 million lives

Sat, 2014-08-02 16:21
Norbert Hirschhorn talks to Lizzie Crouch about the discovery of Oral Rehydration Therapy, a simple concoction of sugar, salts and water that has saved over 50 million lives worldwide.
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VIDEO: Germany's only WW1 exhibition

Fri, 2014-08-01 17:48
The Berlin Historical Museum is holding the only exhibition in Germany to look at the war and its European and global implications.
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VIDEO: The village buried by a landslide

Fri, 2014-08-01 15:34
Zubair Ahmed reports on the search for survivors after a landslide buried Malin village in western India.
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VIDEO: Inside the gutted homes of Gaza

Fri, 2014-08-01 14:42
Ian Pannell reports from Gaza city where people returned to their devastated homes to salvage their belongings during a brief ceasefire.
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VIDEO: Ebola patients 'will fare better in US'

Fri, 2014-08-01 12:54
Two American aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia will stand a better chance of recovery once back in the US, a doctor has said.
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VIDEO: French police's 'vanishing' cocaine

Fri, 2014-08-01 10:40
French police seize 50kg of cocaine which was then securely stored at the headquarters of their judicial police, but it has disappeared.
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VIDEO: Quads born on eve of Gaza ceasefire

Fri, 2014-08-01 10:38
Jon Donnison reports from Gaza, where a woman gave birth to quadruplets on the eve of an ill-fated truce, which broke down with reports of attacks on both sides.
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VIDEO: Cheers as Uganda annuls anti-gay law

Fri, 2014-08-01 10:19
Uganda's Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. Andrew Harding reports.
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VIDEO: British doctor's video from Ebola hospital

Fri, 2014-08-01 10:12
Convincing patients to receive treatment is the biggest task facing medical professionals trying to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a doctor in Sierra Leone says.
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VIDEO: Multiple Taiwan gas blasts kill 25

Fri, 2014-08-01 07:50
Taiwan gas blasts in Kaohsiung kill at least 24
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VIDEO: Civilians in Ukraine flee fighting

Fri, 2014-08-01 01:59
Civilians from towns around the area of Eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 was shot down are continuing to flee heavy fighting.
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VIDEO: Huge blaze after Taiwan blasts

Thu, 2014-07-31 18:55
A series of explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 22 people and injured more than 200, officials say.
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VIDEO: Indonesia's new rich spend it big

Thu, 2014-07-31 16:19
Karishma Vaswani investigates the new wealthy in Indonesia and the growing inequality in the capital Jakarta
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VIDEO: Who are the children fleeing to the US border?

Thu, 2014-07-31 16:16
New data from the Pew Research Center shows that children 12 and under are coming to the US in droves
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VIDEO: Mother and baby saved after landslide

Thu, 2014-07-31 10:19
Rescue workers in western India are working to locate survivors of a landslide that has claimed at least 30 lives and buried up to 200 people.
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VIDEO: Rare contact with remote Amazon tribe

Thu, 2014-07-31 09:19
A group of previously isolated indigenous people from the Amazon has come face to face with a settled community of villagers for the first time in the Brazilian state of Acre, according to authorities.
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VIDEO: How US Customs combats drug trade

Thu, 2014-07-31 09:00
A tour of the postal facility in Los Angeles where US Customs try to halt the flow of illegal drugs coming into and out of the US.
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VIDEO: Underwater art exhibition in Italy

Thu, 2014-07-31 05:53
An exhibition of photographs is taking place underwater off an Italian island.
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VIDEO: Axe crashes through windscreen

Thu, 2014-07-31 05:24
A car passenger had a lucky escape after an axe flew off the back of a lorry and through the windscreen of the vehicle travelling behind it.
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