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BBC News - Australia winner's name for 2010s is 'One-ders'
The decade starting in 2010 should be called theBBC News - Amanda Knox tells an Italian court she is 'no assassin'
Amanda Knox, accused of murdering Meredith Kercher, has told a court she does not want to be branded an assassin.BBC News - Tunisia jails dissident reporter Taoufik Ben Brik
Taoufik Ben Brik, a journalist critical of Tunisia's leader, is jailed for six months on charges he says are trumped up.BBC News - HBOS and RBS received secret bank rescue loans
The Bank of England reveals it lent RBS and HBOS £61.6bn in emergency funding in October and November 2008.BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts & Culture | Motion to chair 2010 Booker Prize
Sir Andrew Motion is to chair the judges for the prestigious Man Booker Prize next year, it is announced.BBC NEWS | Technology | Low-carbon energy
A survey of low-carbon methods of generating electricity.BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Dalai Lama holds mass gathering
Tens of thousands of ethnic Tibetans pour into a remote town in north-east India to hear an address by the Dalai Lama.BBC NEWS | Business | Bringing growth to India's villages
With the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit under way in Delhi, what does India need to do to raise that next generation?BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Pakistan bomb targets checkpoint
A suicide bomber attacks a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 10 people, officials say.BBC NEWS | England | Berkshire | Ten-year wait for new cinema over
A 1,000-seat multiplex cinema opens as part of the Newbury Vision 2025 project after a 10-year campaign by residents.BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Swiss Muslims open mosque doors
Swiss mosques open their doors to the public - ahead of a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets.BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Saving the trillionth tonne
Policy makers must never allow human activity to allow the trillionth tonne of carbon dioxide to be emitted into the atmosphere.BBC NEWS | Africa | South Sudan leader urges split
South Sudan's makes his strongest call yet for voters to back independence from the north in a referendum.BBC NEWS | UK | Jailed King 'should get life ban'
The female student punched and groped by jailed footballer Marlon King calls for him to be banned from the game for life.BBC NEWS | Europe | Karadzic 'led ethnic cleansing'
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic led a campaign of ethnic cleansing, say prosecutors at his genocide and war crimes trial.
