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13/08/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
17/08/2009
Russian warning of Islamic militancy in North Caucusus. And the greatest jazz record ever.
16/08/2009
An American jailed for visiting Aung San Suu Kyi is freed and parmesan for loans in Italy.
12/08/2009
Is the key to change in Burma engagement or isolation? Plus new sports for the Olympics.
Industrial poisoning in China and why hundreds of gay men have been killed in Iraq.
18/08/2009
Â鶹ԼÅÄ investigation on Afghanistan election fraud. And new research on zombies vs humans.
19/08/2009
We talk to a former Talib leader, a warlord and women activists as Afghans prepare to vote
20/08/2009
The man convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 is freed and Afghans go to the polls.
The Lockerbie bomber is released. Compassion or a travesty of justice?
21/08/2009
23/08/2009
Scotland's first minister weighs into the Lockerbie row. And we ask: why is Africa poor?
Has the Lockerbie bomber release damaged US-Scottish relations? And a new comic-book hero.
24/08/2009
Kenyan census sparks row over 'tribalism' and Scotland debates Lockerbie bomber's release.
22/08/2009
The FBI chief deplores the release of the Lockerbie bomber. We get a Libyan view.
Were the Afghan elections free or fair? And a special feature on internet addiction.
A soldier's view on the Afghan elections and the Lockerbie bomber's first day of freedom.
25/08/2009
South African officials defend their handling of the athlete gender controversy.
26/08/2009
We look back at the life of Edward Kennedy, in particular his role in Northern Ireland.
Nigerian bankers on the run, America remembers Edward Kennedy, and are you an adultescent?
27/08/2009
Reports emerge of a serious row between the Afghan President and the US special envoy.
28/08/2009
John Yettaw, the man who swam to Aung San Suu Kyi's home, gives his first radio interview.
29/08/2009
The Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah complains of state-engineered fraud.
30/08/2009
Exit polls in Japan suggest a landslide win for the former opposition.