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About 700 prisoners escape after members of an Islamist sect storm a jail in northern Nigeria, where many of its followers were held.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to team up with Speed director Jan de Bont to make an English-language version of the Chinese legend Mulan.

Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.

Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern and southern Mexico see floodwaters inundate their homes.

The UK's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office says.

At least 30 workers are rescued and at least two are missing after a storm causes an oil rig off China's north-east coast to list dangerously.

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

Calls for different degrees of murder charges have received the backing of the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, the BBC learns.

A fungus that 'eats' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history.

An Indian court tells Vodafone it has to pay $2.6bn in tax for its takeover of Hutchison Telecom's Indian phone assets.

Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped and held in a cellar for more than eight years as a child, launches her autobiography in Vienna.

The US church threatening to burn Korans on 9/11

Former Rangers star player Brian Laudrup, who won three championships with the club, has vowed to beat cancer.

One of the post-mortem examination reports into the death of Ian Tomlinson has been withheld from authorities, it emerges.

Horror movie The Last Exorcism debuts at the top of the UK and Ireland box office, taking £1.1m in its opening weekend.

Dana Petroleum tells shareholders independent valuers found Korean oil's bid is too low and should be rejected.

The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.

Six people have died in a US missile strike targeting militants in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border, security officials say.

Thousands of photographs taken by playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be posted online, the National Trust announces.

Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.