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      <StoryHeadline>Betancourt joy at French return</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt is given a hero's welcome in Paris as video is released of her rescue.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>US 'pregnant man' has baby girl</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>An American man who was born female but underwent gender reassignment gives birth, US media report.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Italy declares Pompeii emergency</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Italian ministers declare a "state of emergency" at the ancient ruined city of Pompeii as it sinks deeper into disrepair.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Police say UFO was just the Moon</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>A 999 caller worried about a bright object in the sky has the mystery solved by police - it was the Moon.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Smallest planet shrinks in size</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft show. </StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Pakistan 'knew of nuclear flight'</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Disgraced scientist AQ Khan says Pakistan flew nuclear material to North Korea with the knowledge of the army.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>Day in pictures</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Some of the most striking images from around the world on 4 July 2008.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>The evolution of a conspiracy theory</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>It wasn't just the Twin Towers that collapsed on September 11. A third World Trade Center tower that wasn't hit by the planes also fell. As a report into Tower 7 prepares to publish its findings, Mike Rudin considers why many people have refused to believe the official explanation.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>Fire caused the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center, a final report is expected to find.</StorySummary>
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      <StoryHeadline>From clearing excrement  to New York modelling</StoryHeadline>
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      <StorySummary>A group of female human waste collectors from India attend a UN sanitation conference in the US, reports Salim Rizvi in New York
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