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Bush meets Palestinian president
US President George W Bush meets Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at talks with Arab leaders in Egypt...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Crowds celebrate FA Cup glory
Tens of thousands of people celebrate in Portsmouth after Pompey lifted the FA Cup for the first time in 69 years...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Man cut free after train hits car
A driver is cut free from his car after a train smashes into it at a railway crossing in the Highlands...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Cardiff defeated at FA Cup Final
Thousands of fans are left disappointed as Cardiff City fail in their bid to win the FA Cup for only the second time...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
'Plot' delays Tsvangirai return
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai postpones a return to Zimbabwe due to fears about an alleged plot to kill him...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Lost generation
Tragedy of China's one-child families hit by earthquake...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Royal celebration
Images from Peter Phillips' wedding to Autumn Kelly...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Down in one
Did US rivals really have a Tallinn vodka contest?...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Cannes diary
Gearing up for Indiana Jones at the film festival...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
England frustrated at wet Lord's
England and New Zealand lose almost the whole of day three of the first Test to rain...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
FA Cup final photos
Pictures from Wembley where Portsmouth triumphed over Cardiff...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
In pictures
Tributes are paid to murdered teenager Jimmy Mizen...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
MoD 'covered up' Hercules bombing
The full truth about the destruction of an RAF Hercules aircraft was covered up by the MoD, an official report discloses...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Soldiers test positive for drugs
Ten soldiers serving with the Black Watch test positive for illegal drugs in a random test, the Army confirms...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
A cat-and-mouse chase causes 72-hour blackout in Albania
A cat-and-mouse chase causes 72-hour blackout in Albania...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Quake effort resumes after panic
Rescue efforts resume in quake-stricken Beichuan, China, after fears of a flash flood spark panic...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Royal marries in Windsor wedding
Princess Anne's son, Peter Phillips, marries Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at Windsor Castle...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Portsmouth clinch Cup victory
Portsmouth beat Cardiff to win the FA Cup final at Wembley, with a first-half goal by striker Kanu...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Edward Kennedy taken to hospital
US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy is taken to hospital with stroke-like symptoms...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Hundreds in tribute to murdered Jimmy
Family and friends of 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen, who was killed in a London bakery a week ago, attend a memorial service...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
China Invites Taiwan Party Head to Visit
In a sign of warming relations, China has invited the head of Taiwan?s incoming ruling party to visit the mainland, where he is to meet with President Hu Jintao...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Spain arrests 'prolific' hackers
Spanish police arrest five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the internet...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Regular tests 'narrow curriculum'
Regular testing means some aspects of the curriculum are not being taught, an academic says...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Star returns to stage after crash
Actor Kris Marshall makes his debut in West End comedy Fat Pig, three weeks after being hit by a car...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Pakistan Afghan ambassador freed
Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan, abducted by suspected Taleban militants in February, is released...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Fans ready for Cardiff's big day
Cardiff City football fans across the globe are watching their club as it chases FA Cup final glory...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Dunlop son wins 250cc at NW races
Michael Dunlop, the son of late motorcycle legend Robert, wins the 250cc race at the North West 200...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Tsvangirai delays Zimbabwe return
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has postponed a planned return to Zimbabwe, officials from his party say...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Make-up artist's husband in court
The husband of an award-winning make-up artist appears in court charged with her murder...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Four held in murder probe
Police investigating the death of a man at a flat in the Townhead area of Glasgow arrest four suspects...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Shatila people
Meet key people in a 60-year-old Palestinian camp...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Fans arriving for cup final match
Thousands of football fans arrive in London to see Portsmouth take on Cardiff at Wembley...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Live - FA Cup final build-up
Portsmouth and Cardiff fans descend on Wembley ahead of the FA Cup final...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Portsmouth and Cardiff chase victory
Team news and big match stats ahead of Saturday's FA Cup final...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Live - England v New Zealand
Alastair Cook reaches his half-century for England before rain hits Lord's...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Brown reveals global moral vision
Prime Minister Gordon Brown sets out his vision for a global society governed by a shared "moral sense"...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Girl killed by van in hit-and-run
A six-year-old girl is killed in a hit-and-run involving a van on Merseyside...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Man charged over attack on Ripper
A man is charged after Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was injured in an attack at Broadmoor hospital...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
China quake victims flee 'flood'
Aid efforts in the quake-hit city of Beichuan halt after reports of a river bursting its banks spark widespread panic...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Service held for bakery death boy
Family and friends of 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen, who was killed in a London bakery a week ago, gather for a memorial service...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Attack on Police Bus Kills 10
A suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle into a police bus in Colombo...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: France: Warming Imperils Truffles
The black truffle is under threat from climate change, according to Jean-Charles Savignac, president of the Fédération Française des Trufficulteurs...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Saturday Profile: Released From Rigors of a Trial, a Nobel Laureate?s Ink Flows Freely
After spending more than two years defending one of his books criticizing Japan?s wartime atrocities, Kenzaburo Oe said that he will strike a new approach in what he said would be his final novel...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Scrapping 2 Costly Reactors, Canada Reopens Aging One
The 51-year-old reactor had been temporarily closed by Canada?s nuclear regulator in November for safety reasons, but two troubled replacement units could not be completed...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Army Blames U.S. for Strike
Pakistan?s army said it had lodged a formal protest with NATO forces in Afghanistan over what the army said was a United States missile strike this week...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Trial Delay for Zuma
The corruption trial of Jacob G. Zuma, the presumptive next president of South Africa, has been delayed yet again...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Soldier Killed in South
A suicide bomber attacked Afghan and Canadian soldiers patrolling a village in the Panjwai district of southern Afghanistan...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Dominican President Wins a Third Term
President Leonel Fernández won a third term in office largely as a result of a campaign gift to the populace that dwarfed those of his six opponents: a shiny new subway system...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Audio Message From bin Laden Condemns Israel
Osama bin Laden vowed on Friday to fight Israel for the liberation of the Palestinians, claiming their cause was at the heart of Al Qaeda?s holy war with the West...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Sunni Insurgents in Mosul Offered Amnesty and Cash
The offer does not apply to insurgents who had harmed civilians and covers only Mosul and the surrounding Nineveh Province, a troubled area made up of Sunni Arabs and Kurds...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
In Siberia, Shopping Malls Are Sprouting All Over
Siberia, where Russians waited in long lines to buy food with ration cards not long ago, is the improbable epicenter of a huge mall boom...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
U.S. Frustrated by Myanmar Junta?s Aid Limits
The Bush administration?s calls for Myanmar to open its borders to international aid have gone unheeded, even as the government of Myanmar almost doubled the death toll from the cyclone to 78,000 on Friday...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
With Chávez in Check, Talks in Peru Stay Calm
To the relief of organizers of a summit meeting here of 50 leaders from Latin America and Europe, the encounter was notable for being relatively free of publicly-flung insults...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Glimpses of Survivors, Miraculous and Few, in Earthquake?s Ruins
Chinese officials said rescuers were still finding survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 22,000 people...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Cord blood cancer therapy boost
Immune cells grown from umbilical cord blood may one day be used to improve leukaemia treatment, say researchers...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Bin Laden driver's trial delayed
A military judge postpones the trial of Osama Bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
France angered by Burmese delays
France's UN envoy accuses Burma of being on the verge of a crime against humanity by not accepting aid...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Brown gives Kirk assembly speech
Gordon Brown addresses the Kirk's General Assembly 20 years after Mrs Thatcher's sermon on the mound...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Week in pictures
Some of the most striking images around the world...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Beichuan rescue
Survivors pulled from rubble in China quake town...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Striking drama
Movie about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands hits Cannes...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Police aim for peaceful cup final
More than 1,000 police officers are drafted in to ensure the FA Cup final passes off peacefully...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Cardiff City's FA Cup run as never seen before - in Lego
A Cardiff City fan spends more than 40 hours using Lego to recreate the club's journey to the FA Cup final...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Plastic bag policy 'a diversion'
Plans to tackle use of plastic bags are a diversion from the real environmental issues, a government adviser says...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Killer stabbed 81-year-old woman
A woman of 81 who was killed in her own home died of multiple stab wounds, police reveal...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Windsor ready for royal wedding
Princess Anne's son, Peter Phillips, is to marry Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at Windsor Castle...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Burma 'guilty of inhuman action'
Gordon Brown accuses Burma's military rulers of neglecting its people by blocking aid to survivors of Cyclone Nargis...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
China leader spurs rescue effort
China's President Hu Jintao urges rescuers in the earthquake-struck province of Sichuan to race to save lives...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
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