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• Japan volcano: 31 hikers feared dead
  Thirty-one hikers are feared dead after being found in cardiac arrest near the peak of erupting Japan volcano Mount Ontake, officials say.

  

  28/9/2014

• Tear gas and clashes at HK protest
  Hong Kong police use tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters outside the main government building, after a week of rising tension.

  

  28/9/2014

• Kimetto breaks marathon world record
  Kenyan Dennis Kimetto breaks the world marathon record as he becomes the first man to run under two hours three minutes.

  

  28/9/2014

• Al-Nusra threat over air strikes
  Syrian militant group al-Nusra Front denounces US-led air strikes as "a war against Islam", as the campaign against Islamic State continues.

  

  28/9/2014

• Air France pilots end long strike
  Air France pilots call off a strike that has lasted for two weeks and cost the airline hundreds of millions of euros.

  

  28/9/2014

• Gay Pride march returns to Serbia
  Serbia is to hold a Gay Pride march in the capital Belgrade amid massive security, after being called off for several years.

  

  28/9/2014

• Sudan apostasy woman 'to campaign'
  Mariam Ibrahim, the woman who escaped a death sentence for apostasy in Sudan, tells the BBC she wants to campaign against religious persecution.

  

  28/9/2014

• US police officer shot in Ferguson
  A police officer is shot - reportedly in the arm - in the strife-torn US town of Ferguson, Missouri, but the officer's condition is unclear.

  

  27/9/2014

• Cuba jails Canadian executive
  A court in Cuba sentences the president of a Canadian transport company to 15 years in jail and seizes assets worth $100m (£62m).

  

  27/9/2014

• India's Modi calls for reform of UN
  Narendra Modi uses his first speech to the UN as India's prime minister to renew his country's call for reform of the Security Council.

  

  27/9/2014

• MP's defection senseless, says Cameron
  David Cameron says the defection of Tory MP Mark Reckless to UKIP is counter-productive, as the Conservative party conference gets under way in Birmingham.

  

  28/9/2014

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