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05/08/2013
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
German politicians call for publication of report into cold war doping
German doping report; lab-grown burgers; Elvis Presley's Stax Studio 40th anniversary
06/08/2013
Yemen terrorism alert
US asks citizens to leave Yemen; Watergate reporter on Washington Post sale; snake deaths
Yemen criticises US over embassy closure
Yemen angered over US embassy closure; Rouhani talks nuclear; website suicide blame
07/08/2013 (1300 GMT)
Latest on Yemen terrorism alert; major fire closes Nairobi airport; the complaints choir
07/08/2013
Obama Snubs Putin over Snowden
US President will only attend G20; Nairobi fire response questioned; Dolphin memories.
08/08/2013
Burma marks uprising anniversary
Burma marks anniversary; Murdoch row amid Australia election campaign; Art Everywhere
Pope orders monitoring of Vatican Bank
Pope Francis to clean up Vatican finances; Malaria immunity research; Christians in Syria
09/08/2013
US withdraws diplomats from Lahore
Security versus diplomacy; Turkish airline pilots kidnapped, Zanzibar acid attack
Obama Promises Transparency in Surveillance
Key changes to US spy programmes; Swedish serial killer who wasn't; Grimm's tales
10/08/2013 (1300 GMT)
World Athletics Championships;warning over forced marriages;Zimbabwe to sell Iran uranium?
Sochi Olympics boycott call rejected.
Stephen Fry calls for protest at Sochi games; Iraq violence; Rwandan politics.
11/08/2013 (1300 GMT)
Al-Azhar proposes reconciliation talks; Australian election TV debate; alcohol and writing
Israel defends settlement plan.
Regev: Settlements will not affect ME talks; Mali election; & Norway's PM as taxi driver.
12/08/2013
12/08/2013 (1300 GMT)
Morsi camps brace for crackdown;drug companies admit bribing Chinese doctors;prison series
South Africa Platinum Belt Deaths
Killings in the wake of Marikana massacre; US prison reform; a Messiah called Martin
13/08/2013
13/08/2013 (1300 GMT)
Death penalty over Xinjiang violence; gunmen kill 44 at Nigeria mosque; villa on rooftop
Israel Frees Prisoners
Palestinians released from Israel; Egypt's Copts under attack; Black Hole paradox
Violent crackdown in Egypt
Clashes as Egyptian army clears protestors; Chinese workers in Japan; invading ants
14/08/2013
Egyptian forces attack protestors
Many die in Egypt as government fires on supporters of deposed President Morsi
15/08/2013
Cairo offices torched
Government: more than 500 dead; Government office set alight; Fresh clashes in Alexandria
15/08/2013 (2000 GMT)
Obama condemns Egypt bloodshed; new mammal discovered; a newly assertive Japan?