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  New records, reflection mark Everest 60th anniversary

  26 May 2013 : Sixty years ago this week two men became the first to stand on the roof of the world in a remarkable feat of endurance and strength of the human spirit.

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  Security high for Paris protest against gay marriage

  26 May 2013 : French police were on alert Sunday ahead of a mass protest in Paris against a new gay marriage law, with hardline activists expected to mingle among 200,000 demonstrators.

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  Soft and hard: Images of power in North Korea

  09 Apr 2013 : From smiling family man with a common touch to hardened military leader ready for all-out war: North Korea's propaganda machine has given leader Kim Jong-Un a visual makeover in the past month.

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  China inflation slows in March

  09 Apr 2013 : Inflation in China slowed faster than expected in March, official data showed, indicating that the recovery in the world's second-largest economy is still weak.

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  Spanish, German giants look to dominate Champions League

  09 Apr 2013 : Spanish and German heavyweights will go into the Champions League quarter-final, second legs this week aiming to ensure that no surprise package makes it into the final four.

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  N. Korean workers 'no-show' at joint industrial zone

  09 Apr 2013 : North Korean workers failed to report at the joint Kaesong industrial zone with South Korea after Pyongyang suspended operations, upping the pressure on Seoul in an escalating military crisis.

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  Obama slams Republicans for gun reform 'stunts'

  09 Apr 2013 : President Barack Obama accused Republicans of stooping to political stunts to block gun reform, in a fervent appeal delivered close to the site of the Newtown school massacre.

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  Fake Rockefeller faces murder trial verdict

  09 Apr 2013 : A German man who posed as a member of the famed Rockefeller family after allegedly killing his landlord in California likely killed the man's wife too, prosecutors said.

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  Iraq marks a decade since the fall of Baghdad

  09 Apr 2013 : Iraq on Tuesday marks a decade since US-led forces took control of Baghdad, sealing the ouster of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, but the country remains plagued by deadly attacks and mired in political crises.

• Original Mousketeer Funicello dies

  09 Apr 2013 : HOLLYWOOD - Annette Funicello, the family-friendly actress and singer known for her time as an original Disney Mousketeer and star of the Beach Party films of the 1960s, has died at the age of 70.

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  Bernanke: US economy 'still far' from desired state

  09 Apr 2013 : Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that the US economy still has far to go to recover to an acceptable state of health.

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  'Cold, aggressive, odious': Argentines remember Thatcher

  09 Apr 2013 : Argentines offered bitter reflections on Margaret Thatcher, portraying the late former British prime minister as a warmonger who prolonged the Falkands War for political ends.

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