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Jul 4 2008:For more than four decades Charles Wheeler, who has died aged 85, reported for BBC radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. By Harold Jackson
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Jul 4 2008:President Robert Mugabe was greeted by cheering crowds today as he returned to Zimbabwe after defending his controversial re-election to African leaders
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Veteran BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler, 85, dies
Jul 4 2008:Sir Charles Wheeler, one of the BBC's longest standing foreign correspondents and the father-in-law of London mayor Boris Johnson, has died at the age of 85. By Leigh Holmwood
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Jul 4 2008:Helena Smith: But Greeks are hoping that a boost for the balkan nationalists in Macedonia could unexpectedly pave the way for compromise
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Kate Connolly on the waxwork exhibition featuring Adolf Hitler
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Jul 4 2008:
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Robert Booth on Zaha Hadid's costly swimming centre for 2012 Olympics
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Guardian Daily podcast: Investigation into Ray Lewis; plus Ingrid Betancourt freed in Colombia
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Disillusioned Berliner Zeitung staff advertise for new proprietor
Jul 4 2008:Staff at the Berliner Zeitung newspaper in Germany are so unhappy with their owner, David Montgomery, that they have advertised for a new proprietor in a rival German magazine. By Helen Pidd
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Economy: Record inflation prompts eurozone rate increase
Jul 4 2008:The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the first time in 13 months as inflation hits 4%
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