World Update from BBC News
Cubans struggling weeks after stormsThe BBC's Michael Voss reports from the Cuban town of Los Palacios, still reeling from the effects of two huge hurricanes, one month on.Wall Street Market ReportWall Street Market ReportThe man who reads dictionariesAmmon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as a novel. Why?Murder charge follows fatal crashA man is charged with murdering a 21-year-old pedestrian who died in a road crash in Surrey.Tense stand-off in Thai capitalTroops are on the streets of Bangkok after the Thai capital's worst anti-government protests for 16 years.BAE firm in body armour pay-outA subsidiary of UK defence giant BAE Systems has agreed to pay millions of dollars to the US government over defective body armour.US anger at Guantanamo Bay rulingThe White House criticises a US judge who ruled 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay should be freed into the US.Chopped arm man 'recovering well'Doctors say an East Sussex man who chopped off his arm with a chainsaw may be able to use his hand again.
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