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08/12/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
09/12/2009
Ireland's strict abortion laws are challenged in the European Court of Human Rights.
10/12/2009
President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize, but did he deserve it? And does pink stink?
11/12/2009
Zimbabwe's Mugabe says his party is tearing itself apart. And Avatar meets Star Trek.
Bidding for Iraqi oil, Iranian students angry at Dutch ban, and a very large cocktail.
12/12/2009
13/12/2009
The UN's aid agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, marks its 60th year. A cause for celebration?
14/12/2009
The fourth US hiker in Iran, an AIDS drug failure and coping with breast cancer.
Copenhagen summit is suspended after African protest. How much are you worth to society?
15/12/2009
Obama's health care reforms 'on a precipice', plus conflict and al-Qaeda in Yemen.
16/12/2009
Police clash with climate campaigers in Copenhagen. We talk to activist Bianca Jagger.
23/12/2009
UN punishes Eritrea for "aiding" Somali insurgents and UK legal highs become illegal.
20/12/2009
22/12/2009
Liberia's president offers cash to expose graft and a new gift idea - divorce vouchers.
18/12/2009
Its deal time in Copenhagen as climate change summit nears end and khat culture in Yemen.
21/12/2009
Protests mark funeral of Iranian dissident cleric and why the Mafia likes Christmas.
19/12/2009
17/12/2009
Owen Bennett Jones talks to Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard - and coping with asthma
Climate guru Lord Stern calls Copenhagen summit "chaotic." Connie Hedegaard defends it.
Can Obama help clinch a deal at Copenhagen, and who's stolen the famous sign at Auschwitz?
A special report on Al Qaeda in Yemen, and how Iraqi militants hacked into US drones.