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16/12/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Police clash with climate campaigers in Copenhagen. We talk to activist Bianca Jagger.
23/12/2009
UN punishes Eritrea for "aiding" Somali insurgents and UK legal highs become illegal.
20/12/2009
22/12/2009
Liberia's president offers cash to expose graft and a new gift idea - divorce vouchers.
18/12/2009
Its deal time in Copenhagen as climate change summit nears end and khat culture in Yemen.
21/12/2009
Protests mark funeral of Iranian dissident cleric and why the Mafia likes Christmas.
19/12/2009
17/12/2009
Owen Bennett Jones talks to Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard - and coping with asthma
Climate guru Lord Stern calls Copenhagen summit "chaotic." Connie Hedegaard defends it.
Can Obama help clinch a deal at Copenhagen, and who's stolen the famous sign at Auschwitz?
A special report on Al Qaeda in Yemen, and how Iraqi militants hacked into US drones.
24/12/2009
The US Senate passes a key healthcare reform bill and a Somali pirate tells us his story.
25/12/2009
Pope Benedict delivers his traditional Christmas message just hours after being assaulted.
26/12/2009
A Nigerian man is charged in the US for trying to blow up an airliner
27/12/2009
Eye-witness accounts from Tehran's streets as protests intensify.
28/12/2009
President Obama vows to improve security after the failed airline bombing over Detroit.
29/12/2009
The EU criticises China for executing a British man. His family says he was mentally ill.
30/12/2009
A British hostage in Iraq is released after 2 years. And bizarre emergency phone calls.
31/12/2009