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25 February 2012 Last updated at 12:05 ET

Nato in Afghan ministries pulloutScene close to Afghan interior ministry, 25 Feb 2012

Nato withdraws all its staff from Afghan ministries after two senior US officers are shot dead in the interior ministry in Kabul.

2011 file picture of Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound Bin Laden site 'being demolished'

Pakistan begins to demolish the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden in the north-western city of Abbottabad, residents and police say.

Damian Grammaticas Article written by Damian Grammaticas Damian Grammaticas Beijing correspondent

China's stake in the Syria stand-off

16:13 UK time, Friday, 24 February 2012

Russia's interests in maintaining the status quo in Syria are obvious but it is less clear why China has staked so much in opposing action against the Assad regime.

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Soutik Biswas Article written by Soutik Biswas Soutik Biswas Delhi correspondent

Is hope a fiction for India's poor?

12:50 UK time, Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Katherine Boo's book on a Mumbai slum is a forensic investigation into the lives of India's poor.

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Special Reports

Pedestrians cross a road in front of the Shibuya station in TokyoGeneration Asia

New lifestyles in changing societies

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