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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges Burma's president and its opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to work as partners on a path to change.

Can cities seeking mayors look to twins for inspiration?

Tewkesbury, which was devastated by flooding five years ago, is on alert again following heavy rainfall and rising river levels.

The UN Secretary General has said the winds of change are blowing in Burma but more needs to be done to achieve democracy.

A pro-democracy activist has been ordered detained in Vietnam for at least four months, having been charged with organizing terrorist activities, state media reported.

The Ugandan army says the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony is being supported and supplied by the Sudanese government.

The government is setting up a national task force to tackle "beds in sheds" housing illegal immigrants and which are run by criminal landlords.

Days before the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, top surrogates for President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to the national stage to argue the politics of the attack.

Police are set to clamp down on troublemakers ahead of the Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium.

Scientists in Peru hunt the cause of the mysterious deaths of hundreds of pelicans on the coast in the north of the country.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis officials are expected to more closely scrutinize the large tents commonly set up near downtown stadiums after one of the temporary structures collapsed in high winds Saturday, resulting in the death of an Illinois man and dozens of injuries after a baseball game.

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Syria's UN observer mission head warns that even 1,000 observers could not stop the violence in the country, so peace must be a joint effort.

A piece of Edinburgh history is up for grabs as more than 20 of the capital's police boxes are put up for sale.

Stoke manager Tony Pulis and Match of the Day 2 pundits Mark Lawrenson and Dion Dublin give their views on the Football Association's decision to talk to West Brom boss Roy Hodgson about the vacant England manager's position. Available to UK users only.

The running of the civil service pension scheme becomes the government's first mutualised Whitehall service, which the biggest employees union condemns as privatisation.

Opposing groups of faith organisations launch separate campaigns ahead of the possible legalisation of gay marriage in Scotland.

A new online tool is launched that lets individuals complain if they feel executive pay at companies is too high.

Expanded protection that automatically covers UK holidaymakers if an operator collapses has come into force.

A rise in the cost of stamps - taking the cost of first-class to 60p - has come into force after weeks of stockpiling by some consumers.

A rise in the price of postage stamps has come into force after weeks of stockpiling by some consumers.