Spanish unemployment hits a new record high of 5.64 million, official figures show, hours after the country’s debt rating was downgraded.

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Spanish unemployment hits record

The UN Security Council calls for an end to hostilities in northern Mali and a return to constitutional rule two weeks after the country’s coup.

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UN urges end to fighting in Mali

Indian authorities arrest six suspected Nigerian email scammers just days after the country was named spam capital of the world.

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‘Spam capital’ India arrests six

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he expects a decades-old state of emergency to be lifted next week, after the country’s worst protests for decades.

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Syria state of emergency ‘to end’

Japan’s rescue operation has started a day after the country was hit by a massive earthquake.

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VIDEO: Rescue operation under way in Japan

Police baton-charge investors in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka after the country’s stock market saw a record one-day fall.

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Bangladesh clashes as shares dive

Scotland’s beleaguered Transport Secretary Stewart Stevenson has resigned after the country was brought to a standstill by snow.

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Minister resigns over snow chaos

Twenty-seven suspected drug gang members are killed in a clash with troops near the US border, Mexico’s army says, hours after the country’s president vows to continue the fight against drug cartels.

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Mexican clash ‘kills 27 gunmen’