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05/08/2011
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
05/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
Europe tries calming markets; Senegal's new youth movement and Muslim prisoners in the USA
06/08/2011 2000 GMT
US copter downed in Afghanistan; Israel protests; the allure of the female roller derby.
06/08/2011 (1200GMT)
38 die in Afghan helicopter crash; Al Shabaab abandon Mogadishu; Light of Asia shines anew
07/08/2011 (1200 GMT)
Riots in north London; government troops attack Syria's largest eastern city
07/08/2011
London riots - area sealed off; former Italian PM on debt crisis; Coney Island concrete
08/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Second night of rioting in London; volatile markets; and a five star hotel in Gaza
Newshour (20:00 GMT)
Riots in London worsen, Stock Markets drop, and is it all over for hitchhiking?
Newshour 20:00 GMT
Special coverage of the England riots.
09/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
England riots: criminality or social deprivation? and shares plunge in volatile trading
10/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Causes of the England riots; Turkish diplomacy in Syria; the post-disaster Japanese psyche
10/08/2011
England riot aftermath; drought in Kenya and Elvis' mystery woman.
11/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
British PM: poverty not behind riots; Italy's debt debate; kissing colleagues in Germany
11/08/2011 (2100 GMT)
British leader reacts to riots;Footballers strike in Spain;Germans avoid an office kiss
12/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Have riots stoked race tension? Ban on share speculation; tongue op to speak Korean
12/08/2011 (2100 GMT)
Philadelphia considers curfew; The Pippa bottom lift; No wedding for Bert and Ernie
13/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
Top Republican joins US presidential race; policeman's view of riots; volleyball short row
13/08/2011 (1200 GMT)
A policeman tells his story of the riots, Glee on the big screen, Berlin wall at 50.
14/08/2011 (1200 GMT)
Many dead after insurgent attack in Afghanistan, re-branding England, India's Elvis dies.
Reports of Syria under attack; US advice on the England riots; the bavarian cow on the run
15/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
Palestinian refugees flee Syrian camp; Mubarak trial won't be televised; why beauty pays
15/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Bombs across Iraq; Colonel Gadaffi defiant on TV; and the plan to make Hitler female
16/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Indian authorities detain anti-corruption activist and new love letters from Mrs Simpson.
16/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
Fresh phone hacking claims; Indian hunger striker freed; how did Butch Cassidy really die?
17/08/2011 1300 GMT
English courts sentence rioters; India corruption protests; and Glasgow's zombie invasion.
17/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
UN Hariri killing charges. Should sperm donors be recognised? Royalties for rock stars
18/08/2011 (1300 GMT)
Attacks on Israeli buses, Libyan rebels seize refinery and selling a house with a skeleton
18/08/2011 (2100 GMT)
Calls for Assad to step down; Israel attacked, retaliation in Gaza; celebs behaving badly
19/08/2011 (2000 GMT)
US Syria policy; British Council chief on Afghan attack and can classical ever be cool?
19/08/2011
20/08/2011 (2100 BST)
Exchanges of gunfire in Tripoli; Iran jails US hikers; a call for sperm of football fans