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Afghan president’s poll call does little to ease tension

Spain’s Basque Country and Galicia vote in regional polls, the first since the country slid into recession in 2008.

Azerbaijan’s government is keen to construct a new gas pipeline to Europe, as the BBC’s Tom Esslemont discovered during a visit to the country’s largest natural gas field.

Iraqi security forces say they have captured 11 members of al-Qaeda, including the group’s self-styled "oil minister".

Lord Mandelson accuses the postal union of using “scare tactics” in the row over plans to part-privatise Royal Mail.

US President Barack Obama chooses Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his new health secretary, officials say.

Women should see the recession as an opportunity to show how valuable they can be in at work, Cherie Blair tells the BBC.

Ex-drug trafficker tells how he sprang from Bangkok jail

Average-sized GP surgeries are just as good as “super-surgeries” at providing extra services, a study suggests.

Cluster headache patient talks of his lifelong battle