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29/08/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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
Obama's big health care gamble and is sleeping together bad for your health?
10/09/2009
No lifting of EU sanctions against Zimbabwe and how liberal is the Russian president?
President Obama faces down his healthcare critics. And what does our DNA say about us?
11/09/2009
12/09/2009
"I'm still here": Zimbabwe's President Mugabe says sanctions against him won't work.
13/09/2009
A year on from Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement, are conditions worse than ever?
14/09/2009
President Obama promises an overhaul of the US financial system, and Elton John's wish.
World opinion on the economic crisis, NATO in Afghanistan, and looking for love in Ireland