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24/08/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
21/08/2009
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.
31/08/2009
The US House of Representatives debates President Obama's healthcare reforms
01/09/2009
Europe remembers the seventieth anniversary of the start of World War II.
02/09/2009
The UN trumpets a drop in opium output; but is destroying poppies right for Afghanistan?
03/09/2009
Fresh claims over Russia's mystery ship and the social stigma of mental ill health.
Mexico's drug wars claim 17 more victims -- in a rehab clinic. Can the government win?
Newshour 04/09/2009
Deadly Afghan air strike to be investigated and a road safety video that's gone global.
04/09/2009
Traumatic testimony of children torturing children and is Afghanistan success realistic?
05/09/2009
The G20 meet in London, party boss sacked in Urumqi and the legacy of WWII.
06/09/2009
Philippines ferry disaster, Sri Lanka UN expulsion, and are we born to believe in God?
07/09/2009
1 year on and our 'Aftershock' season assesses the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout.
The verdict and implications of Britain's terror plot and America's teenage assassins.
08/09/2009
'Aftershock'continues from Los Angeles where former gang members are seeking employment.
09/09/2009