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| September 12 |
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| The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. |
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| September 22 |
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| Serbian forces have renewed their assault against rebel fighters in Kosovo. |
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| September 19 |
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| The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services. |
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| September 18 |
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| The body of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has been identified among the wreckage of a plane which crashed last night outside the Northern Rhodesian town of Ndola. |
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| September 17 |
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| New Yorkers have been returning to work six days after the terror attacks which devastated the heart of their city. |
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| September 16 |
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| At least 177 people have died during a lethal fire in a South African gold mine. |
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| September 12 |
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| The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. |
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| September 5 |
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| Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87. |
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| September 23 |
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| Crowds have gathered outside Buckingham Palace for news of King George VI following an operation to remove part of his lung. |
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| September 26 |
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| Britain and China have finalised an agreement which will end 50 years of UK rule in Hong Kong. |
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| September 25 |
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| Nine black children have finally been able to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But they had to be surrounded by more than 1,000 US paratroopers to protect them from segregationist whites. |
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| September 24 |
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| The Rhodesian Government has agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years. |
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| August 31 |
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| Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. |
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| August 30 |
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| Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is to be charged with genocide- the most serious of all war crimes. |
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| August 27 |
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| The BBC has transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel. |
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| August 26 |
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| A man has been given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain. |
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| August 25 |
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| The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets. |
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| August 24 |
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| Police in Los Angeles are investigating allegations of child abuse made against singer Michael Jackson. |
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| August 23 |
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| Police have launched a murder hunt after a man was found shot dead and his companion seriously wounded in a lay-by in Bedfordshire. |
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| August 20 |
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| Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and a Texan businessman, John Bryan, have been published in a tabloid newspaper. |
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| August 19 |
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| Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners. |
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| August 18 |
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| Manchester United Football Club has been sold for ￡20m in the biggest takeover deal in the history of British football. |
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| August 17 |
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| Three Americans have made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon. |
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| August 14 |
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| Massive power failures have caused chaos across the eastern United States and Canada, hitting major cities such as New York and Ottawa. |
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| August 13 |
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| Troops in East Germany have sealed the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East. |
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| August 12 |
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| The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has been joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service. |
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| August 11 |
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| Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia have witnessed the last total solar eclipse of the century. |
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| August 10 |
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| The United Nations has brokered another ceasefire in Cyprus, defusing the growing crisis between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and heading off the threat of invasion by Turkey. |
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| August 9 |
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| American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days. |
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| August 6 |
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| The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. |
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