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11/05/2010
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
12/05/2010
First day of a new government and a new kind of government for the UK.
First British coalition government for more than 60 years. China schools on high alert.
13/05/2010
A Thai Red Shirt leader is shot, and Britain's new cabinet meets for the first time.
14/05/2010
President Obama has harsh words for oil companies and the latest form Thailand
Thailand's crisis deepens, with troops firing on Bangkok's streets. And who owns the Nile?
15/05/2010
The latest from Thailand where the authorities are tightening their grip on the capital.
More violence on the streets of Bangkok and BP's boss on the future of deep-sea drilling.
16/05/2010
17/05/2010
Bangkok protesters defy deadline, but the government says leaders are forcing them to stay
18/05/2010
A test for President Obama in the primaries and a man wants to jump off the edge of space
Security fears over Kabul blast. And why are Moscow residents wearing blue buckets?
19/05/2010
Is the standoff in Thailand over and are the Taliban back in key areas in Afghanistan?
20/05/2010
Creating artificial life; Paris art heist; and Ivory Coast's Elephants prepare for battle
North Korea faces condemnation after it is accused of sinking a South Korean warship.
21/05/2010
EU Finance Ministers meet in Brussels and is letter writing a dying art form?
Gulf of Mexico oil rig survivor speaks, Greece bail out approved, and Pac Man at 30.
22/05/2010
A plane crash in India kills 160 people and we ask what next for Thailand
23/05/2010
Iran offers a prisoner swap for three US hikers and Ethiopia goes to the polls
Ethiopia votes, royal scandal in Britain, and the UN is targeted in Gaza.
24/05/2010
Korean peninsular tensions; protest and gangs in Jamaica; and the ethics of TV torture
25/05/2010
In Jamaica the hunt continues for a suspected drug gang leader and the death toll rises.
26/05/2010
Inside the Chinese factory hit by a spate of suicides and why termites are stars in Africa
27/05/2010
Norway to fund Indonesia's major deforestation deal and 'Dunkirk delusion'.
The politics of the oil spill; Fatima Bhutto on Pakistan; and humble heroes immortalised.