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BBC World News' personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from BBC World News' life.

Created by twitter_bbcworld on Sep 29, 2008

Last updated: 10/20/10 at 09:57 PM

• Life in exile http://bbc.in/aLT3Hg
  Oct 20, 2010 5:06 PM

  
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• Gascoigne warned he may face jail http://bbc.in/bxJI29
  Oct 20, 2010 4:13 AM

  
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• Spartak Moscow 0-2 Chelsea http://bbc.in/bXEWvd
  Oct 19, 2010 11:50 AM

  
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• Wayne Rooney scores all four goals to send Manchester United top of the Premier League after vict...
  Jan 23, 2010 9:20 AM

  
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• A British soldier dies following an explosion while on foot patrol near Sangin in central Helmand...
  Jan 22, 2010 1:00 PM

  
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• A client of the Swiss bank UBS has won an appeal against handing over data to US tax authorities....
  Jan 22, 2010 11:50 AM

  
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• A man suspected of shooting eight people in rural Virginia surrenders after a manhunt in which a ...
  Jan 20, 2010 6:41 AM

  
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• Four Vietnamese activists, including prominent lawyer Le Cong Dinh, are jailed for trying to over...
  Jan 20, 2010 4:52 AM

  
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• Five Met Police officers are disciplined over failings in an inquiry into sex assault claims agai...
  Jan 19, 2010 6:00 PM

  
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• The sound of Cambodia's 1960s music is revived http://tinyurl.com/lb8yvd
  Jul 28, 2009 4:12 PM

  
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• Sarah Waters and two-time former winner JM Coetzee are among the writers on the longlist for the ...
  Jul 28, 2009 9:13 AM

  
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• A campaign manager of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah is seriously injured after ...
  Jul 28, 2009 4:22 AM

  
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• Supporting the Afghan government is as important as defeating the Taliban, Development Secretary ...
  Jul 26, 2009 8:02 AM

  
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• India's prime minister launches the country's first nuclear-powered submarine, which will carry b...
  Jul 26, 2009 5:32 AM

  
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• Guinea-Bissau holds a run-off vote to replace President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was assassinate...
  Jul 26, 2009 2:22 AM

  
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• Brawn's Jenson Button looks to recover from two disappointing races as the Hungary Grand Prix wee...
  Jul 24, 2009 12:52 AM

  
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• Anti-Semitic attacks in the UK doubled in the first half of this year compared with the same peri...
  Jul 23, 2009 4:13 PM

  
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• Antibiotics can wipe out the debilitating disease river blindness, which affects 37m people, a st...
  Jul 21, 2009 2:02 AM

  
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• Workers building stadiums for next year's World Cup in South Africa are ending a week-long strike...
  Jul 15, 2009 6:03 AM

  
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• France demands the release of a French academic who it says has been detained in Iran since 1 Jul...
  Jul 6, 2009 12:44 PM

  
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• A monorail crash at the Walt Disney World in Florida kills the theme park's employee, officials s...
  Jul 5, 2009 7:33 AM

  
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• Mass protests end in Iran, but the crisis simmers on http://tinyurl.com/mko5rs
  Jul 4, 2009 4:41 PM

  
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• Debbie Rowe, ex-wife of Michael Jackson, says she will fight for custody of the two children she ...
  Jul 2, 2009 12:03 PM

  
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• US actor Karl Malden, best known for his roles in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire and On t...
  Jul 1, 2009 1:22 PM

  
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• A cap on the cost of sending a text message while abroad in the European Union comes into force f...
  Jun 30, 2009 11:32 PM

  
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• The eurozone's annual rate of inflation turned negative in June for the first time since the curr...
  Jun 30, 2009 3:42 AM

  
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• Cheb Mami, star of Algeria's Rai scene, faces trial in France on charges of forcing a woman to ha...
  Jun 30, 2009 2:42 AM

  
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• Ministers in Zimbabwe's ex-opposition boycott a cabinet meeting chaired by President Robert Mugab...
  Jun 29, 2009 5:43 AM

  
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• Security is tightened in Iraq as the authorities prepare for next Tuesday's deadline for US troop...
  Jun 27, 2009 9:22 AM

  
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• World number four Novak Djokovic sweeps aside dangerous American Mardy Fish in straight sets to r...
  Jun 26, 2009 11:53 AM

  
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• The police say they did not know enough about the concerns of Romanian families who fled their Be...
  Jun 24, 2009 1:42 AM

  
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• A police stripogram is found guilty of impersonating a police officer and stopping motorists in A...
  Jun 23, 2009 9:55 AM

  
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• A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. ...
  Jun 20, 2009 1:12 AM

  
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• The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK reaches 909, Health Secretary Andy Burnham s...
  Jun 12, 2009 3:43 AM

  
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• Plight of Pakistanis displaced by conflict in Swat valley http://tinyurl.com/nflnrl
  Jun 11, 2009 5:41 PM

  
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• What was on Michelle's menu this week? http://tinyurl.com/mhjnuj
  Jun 11, 2009 5:23 PM

  
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• Barbers thrive in Pakistan's Swat valley, post-Taliban http://tinyurl.com/m3og2p
  Jun 6, 2009 4:31 PM

  
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• How Tiananmen taboo betrays China nervousness http://tinyurl.com/qrppqb
  Jun 3, 2009 5:21 AM

  
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• Scientists say they have developed a drug that can treat the deadliest form of skin cancer in its...
  Jun 1, 2009 6:32 PM

  
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• Eye-catching images from around the world http://tinyurl.com/na57m9
  Jun 1, 2009 4:41 AM

  
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• The Israeli cabinet rejects a controversial proposal to require Israeli citizens to take an oath ...
  May 31, 2009 9:21 AM

  
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• Iraq's ex-trade minister has been arrested at Baghdad airport on corruption charges as he tried t...
  May 30, 2009 4:51 AM

  
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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne ahead of a decision on a prefer...
  May 26, 2009 7:57 AM

  
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• Why it is now okay to wave a German flag http://tinyurl.com/omffz6
  May 23, 2009 1:52 PM

  
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• A US offensive in Afghanistan could push Taliban fighters deeper into Pakistan, the top US comman...
  May 21, 2009 8:54 PM

  
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• Kanye West is due back in court in July after pleading not guilty to charges following a fracas w...
  May 19, 2009 12:32 AM

  
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• Woody Allen wins a $5m (£3.3m) settlement from American Apparel after the used his image on adver...
  May 18, 2009 9:13 AM

  
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• A former minister admits claiming £16,000 on expenses for a mortgage that did not exist. http://t...
  May 13, 2009 2:12 PM

  
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• India's marathon five-phase general election is drawing to a close, as up to 107m voters begin to...
  May 12, 2009 6:42 PM

  
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• The space shuttle Atlantis has launched on an ambitious and risky mission to repair and upgrade t...
  May 11, 2009 11:07 AM

  
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