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  • Vessel carrying 2m barrels of oil worth £68m has a crew of 25, including two Britons
  • India's two most powerful politicians said the poor should not pay for the 'profligacy' of rich nations

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Big Bend National Park, Texas

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Debby the polar bear, who has died at 42

World's oldest polar bear, Debby, dies in Canada aged 42 (1min 43sec)

Asian stock markets. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Global financial crisis: recession spreads around the world

Rory gets shot

Inspired by Dick Cheney, Colombian tailor offers bullet-proof hunting gear (26 sec)

Birds fly over Veracruz in Mexico in their annual migration

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Ex-Guantánamo detainee David Hicks speaks for the first time

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A house is destoyed following torrential rain and storms over the past few days in Brisbane, Australia

Video: Storms devastate east coast of Australia (2min 19sec)

Farhad Hakimzadeh removed a map by Hans Holbein the Younger from Simon Grynaeus’s 16th century work Novus Orbis

Dr Kristian Jensen of the British Library on the theft of pages from historic books (3min 56sec)

BP oil rig

Guardian Daily podcast: Falling oil prices; plus the British Library’s book vandal (25min 19sec)

A Woolworths shop

Guardian Daily podcast: Woolworths for sale for £1, plus Bush scraps laws protecting environment (26min 09sec)

Argentina national coach Diego Maradona blows the whistle during his first international training session at Celtic Park

Richard Williams on Maradona managing Argentina against Scotland (3min 53sec)

Doma, Zimbabwe: Vhukani Sibanda snaps the neck of a bird he caught to eat

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a rally held to support federal aid to the US auto industry

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Barack Obama celebrates his election victory with his family

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