The latest stories from the World section of the BBC News web site.
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February 2, 2013 - 11:36am
Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo says Sebastian Vettel will not join Ferrari while Fernando Alonso is with the team.
February 2, 2013 - 11:24am
Eight of Notre Dame Cathedral's nine new bells have been blessed by French Cardinal Andre Armand Vingt-Trois.
February 2, 2013 - 11:08am
Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front says it carried out a suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on Friday.
February 2, 2013 - 11:04am
Mark Bunn's penalty save from Adel Taarabt earns out-of-form Norwich a point against Premier League basement side QPR.
February 2, 2013 - 10:32am
The French National Assembly approves a crucial article of a bill on legalising same-sex marriage after months of public protests and counter-protests.
February 2, 2013 - 10:21am
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy denies allegation that he and other governing party members received secret payments, and vows not to resign.
February 2, 2013 - 10:10am
A man once considered Sweden's worst serial killer has won retrials for three murders after withdrawing confessions made in the 1990s.
February 2, 2013 - 10:10am
Rescue work after a deadly explosion at the headquarters of the Mexican oil company Pemex entered its final and most dangerous phase, the attorney general has said.
February 2, 2013 - 9:34am
Sasha Marsden, the teenager found dead in a Blackpool alleyway, was stabbed in the head before attempts were made to set her on fire, police say.
February 2, 2013 - 8:27am
Egyptian protesters have clashed with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo, after a week of violence in which more than 60 people were killed.
February 2, 2013 - 8:13am
Attempts to cut youth unemployment in England are being hampered by excessive bureaucracy and central government control, council leaders say.
February 2, 2013 - 8:11am
A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts hacked in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches.
February 2, 2013 - 8:07am
Five men plead not guilty to the rape and murder of a student in a Delhi bus in December, in a case which caused outrage across India.
February 2, 2013 - 8:06am
Sir Chris Hoy says cycling must "break the chain" with those who have a history of doping in the sport.
February 2, 2013 - 8:02am
Two senior Australian cabinet ministers announce surprise resignations, only days after Prime Minister Julia Gillard called early elections.
February 2, 2013 - 8:01am
Japanese coastguards detain a Chinese boat for allegedly fishing in a Japanese exclusive economic zone amid an ongoing row over disputed islands.
February 2, 2013 - 7:05am
Thirteen soldiers and 10 civilians have died in an attack by Taliban militants on a checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, officials say.
February 2, 2013 - 6:51am
The UN anti-genocide envoy expresses alarm over reports of reprisal attacks by Malian troops, as France's Francois Hollande visits Mali.
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