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More than 80 passengers and some crew members have been rescued from an Antarctic cruise ship that ran aground.

More than 90,000 people who fled their homes after violence flared in eastern Congo are unaccounted for, the UN refugee agency has said.

Repairs to the Large Hadron Collider, built to simulate a "Big Bang", could cost around £30 million, scientists have said.

Armed robbers have stolen millions of euros worth of gems in a raid on the luxury Harry Winston jewellers off the Champs Elysees.

Dictator Robert Mugabe should not be in power and his African neighbours should be doing more to make him quit, Condoleezza Rice has said.

India's new home minister has admitted there had been security lapses surrounding last week's Mumbai attacks.

More tourists stranded in Thailand are to arrive home on the first British Airways flight since protests closed the main airport.

Defence chiefs are expected to name a British soldier killed in Iraq after suffering a gunshot wound to the head.

A British couple have appeared in a Gambian court charged with sedition or undermining the authority of the government.

Nasa has postponed the launch of a major mission to study whether things can live on Mars.