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Apec leaders make free-trade vow - Leaders from Asia-Pacific nations meeting in Peru pledge not to raise trade barriers in the face of the worldwide financial crisis....

Dalai Lama urges Chinese contacts - The Dalai Lama asks Tibetan exiles to improve contacts with ordinary Chinese, but warns that their leaders remain a threat....

Beheadings in Guatemala jail riot - A fight between rival gangs in a Guatemalan prison leaves seven inmates dead, five of them beheaded, say officials....

Venezuela set for 'critical' vote - Venezuelans are set to vote in municipal elections to choose new state governors and over 300 mayors across the country....

Fresh spacewalk in vexed mission - International Space Station astronauts try to resolve the latest of a series of glitches that have plagued their mission....

Iceland protest ends in clashes - Protesters in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, clash with police during a demonstration over the handling of the country's financial crisis....

Senior Honduran politician killed - The deputy speaker of the Honduran Congress, Mario Fernando Hernandez, is shot dead by unidentified attackers....

Zimbabwe denies bar on Annan team - Zimbabwe denies refusing entry to a team led by former UN chief Kofi Annan and ex-US president Jimmy Carter....

Vatican 'forgives' John Lennon - A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late former Beatle, John Lennon, for saying the band were more popular than Jesus....

Couple sues after nude photos on lost phone are posted on internet - A US couple sue McDonald's for $3m (£2m) after nude photos of the woman, which were on her husband's mobile phone, ended up on the internet....

Live text - India v England - India bat first after England win the toss in Bangalore, in the fourth of their seven-game ODI series - with India leading 3-0....

Australia clinch easy Gabba win - Australia wrap up a comfortable 149-run victory over New Zealand in Brisbane....

Send your video, pictures and story ideas - Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you....

'Dirty war' - Kidnap and torture in Russian republic of Ingushetia...

Seething anger - Why the Swiss want bank bosses fed to crocodiles...

End game - What legacy will Sri Lanka's bitter civil war leave?...

Democratic deficit - Lord Patten on China's 'threat to democracy'...

'We lived on hope' - Torn from home the Kindertransport children of 1938...

Thinking local - Chavez pulls out all the stops for Venezuela elections...

DR Congo rebel rallies support - Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda tells a rally in eastern DR Congo it is safe for displaced people to return to their homes....

Argentine man kills himself on TV - A former police chief in Argentina, wanted for alleged crimes against human rights, shoots himself dead live on television. ...

Arrest over Japan ministry murder - Japanese police arrest a man for weapons possession after he confesses to murdering a former health vice-minister....

Royal demands French vote re-run - Segolene Royal contests the razor-thin result of a vote to choose the leader of the French Socialist opposition...

'Israel spy' put to death in Iran - A 45-year-old Iranian man convicted of spying for Iran's arch foe Israel is hanged, reports from Tehran say....

UK militant 'killed in Pakistan' - A fugitive British militant linked to an alleged UK plot to blow up transatlantic airliners is killed in Pakistan, reports say....

VAT cut mooted for recovery plan - A VAT cut could form the centrepiece of the pre-Budget report on Monday, according to widespread speculation....

US shares up on 'Treasury choice' - US shares rise sharply on reports that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his treasury secretary, reassuring investors....

Light-wave implant hope for deaf - An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers....

Sea eagles could be reintroduced - Conservationists plan to bring the sea eagle, the UK's largest bird of prey, back to the skies above England....

Madonna and Ritchie granted divorce - Madonna and Guy Ritchie are granted a divorce at London's High Court with the singer citing unreasonable behaviour....

IBM to build brain-like computers - A collaboration in the US is aiming to create artificial brain circuits that mimic the structure and workings of neurons....

Kurds in N. Iraq Receive Arms From Bulgaria - BAGHDAD -- Kurdish officials this fall took delivery of three planeloads of small arms and ammunition imported from Bulgaria, three U.S. military officials said, an acquisition that occurred outside the weapons procurement procedures of Iraq's central government. ...

Leadership Fight Frays Socialist Party in France - PARIS, Nov. 22 -- France's once-reigning Socialist Party, the main opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy, fell into full disarray Saturday over a backbiting leadership struggle that betrayed deep divisions about the role of a leftist party in modern France. ...

Some in the Arab World Worry that Clinton Would Be More Hawk Than Dove - There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving. ...

Bush Reflects on Russian Relations - LIMA, Peru, Nov. 22 -- President Bush held his last meeting with a Russian leader on Saturday, saying he had worked to forge a "cordial relationship" with President Dmitry Medvedev and to be "respectful" when they disagreed. ...

U.S. Strike in Pakistan Kills Suspected Mastermind of British Airline Plot - KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22 -- A suspected al-Qaeda operative linked to a 2006 plot to blow up British airliners was killed Saturday in a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan, according to two Pakistani intelligence officials. At least four other extremist fighters were also ...

Man Turns Himself Over to Tokyo Police, Says He Stabbed Couple - TOKYO, Nov. 23 -- A man with bloodstained knives in his possession turned himself in to police here Saturday night, saying that he had killed a former Japanese health minister. ...

Iraqi Minister Maliki Warns of Dire Consequences if Pact Status of Forces Agreement Is Not Approved - BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 -- Iraq's defense minister warned Saturday that the government would declare a state of emergency if there was no agreement to keep U.S. forces in the country past the end of the year. ...

Iran Hangs Convicted Spy for Israel - TEHRAN, Nov. 22 -- Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel in an "intensifying intelligence war" between the two countries, a high-level Iranian security official announced Saturday at a rare news conference. ...