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Pinball tables offer new tricks

January 27, 2013 - 8:37pm
Is pinball about to stage a comeback?
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Nuclear issue stalks Iran's presidential election

January 27, 2013 - 8:33pm
The faces who might next steer Iran through its nuclear crisis
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VIDEO: 24 hours at the last Cold War frontier

January 27, 2013 - 8:17pm
The BBC's Lucy Williamson spends a day with South Korean soldiers patrolling the demilitarised zone set up after the Korean War in 1953.
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VIDEO: 'They would not share food with me'

January 27, 2013 - 8:02pm
In Cambodia, until recently, people living with the Aids virus were treated as social outcasts.
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Ariel Sharon 'has brain activity'

January 27, 2013 - 6:40pm
Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who has been in a coma for seven years, shows significant signs of brain activity, doctors say.
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Man dies as thaw brings flooding

January 27, 2013 - 6:08pm
More than 80 flood warnings are in place across Britain as snow thaws, and a canoeist dies after being pulled from a swollen river in North Yorkshire.
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Man held after cyclists killed

January 27, 2013 - 5:18pm
A 38-year-old man is arrested following the death of two cyclists in Bristol who were in a collision with a car.
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Guns fired at Dominican party HQ

January 27, 2013 - 5:09pm
A meeting of the main opposition party in the Dominican Republic ends in chaos after shots are fired and six people are hurt.
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