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Rhod Sharp with news from around the world.

Up All Night is live in Kabul speaking to residents and journalists watching as Nato helicopters are called in to end a five hour militant attack on the Intercontinental Hotel. At least ten civilians are killed as well as all of the insurgents.

A huge wildfire in the US state of New Mexico forces the closure of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory.

There are violent clashes between police and demonstrators, after thousands take to the streets of Athens to protest against plans to introduce further austerity measures.

We find out about the Bangladeshi village where being eaten by a tiger isn't just bad luck for its victim.

In the penultimate hour, revelations about the brilliant Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of railways and steam ships, which have put the cat amongst the Brunelian pigeons. Railway historian Adrian Vaughan tells us about his forays into the archive.

And why in an apartment complex in New Hampshire, residents are being told that they'll have to give DNA samples from their pets.