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• Warriors, water and a white horse: Photos of the week

• Lara Trump withdraws name from consideration for US Senate

• One woman's 56-year fight to free her innocent brother from death sentence

• Syria's rebel leaders say they've broken with their jihadist past - can they be trusted?

• A man's suicide leads to clamour around India's dowry law

• Soldier-spies in Myanmar help pro-democracy rebels make crucial gains

• Is the US government going to shut down? What happens if it does

• Musk flexes influence over Congress in shutdown drama

• Heroism attributed to suspect Luigi Mangione alarming - Mayorkas

• Faced with turmoil, a defiant Trudeau hangs on - for now

• Don't underestimate North Korean troops in Russia, ex-soldiers tell BBC

• Cook Islands wants its own passport. New Zealand says no

• Russia is executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war

• The drug-trafficking Rio gangsters who see themselves as God's 'soldiers of crime'

• 'I was raped by Assad's thugs – but I'm no longer afraid to show my face'

• Hollywood stars support Blake Lively over legal complaint

• Cyclone Chido kills 94 people in Mozambique

• Frank Gardner: Saudi warnings about Magdeburg suspect were ignored

• Trump threatens to try to regain control of Panama Canal

• Kremlin denies reports Assad's wife has filed for divorce

• Biden commutes most federal death sentences

• Gaza ceasefire talks 90% complete, Palestinian official tells BBC

• US warplane shot down in Red Sea 'friendly fire' incident

• Inside the abandoned homes of Assad's ruthless enforcers

• France holds day of mourning for Mayotte cyclone dead

• Blake Lively accuses co-star Justin Baldoni of smear campaign

• Man arrested over death of woman set on fire on New York subway

• Dominique Pelicot's double life: Who is the man who plotted his wife's mass rape?

• Guatemala police clash with Jewish sect over 160 at-risk children

• Grief and anger in Magdeburg after Christmas market attack

• US avoids government shutdown after days of political turmoil

• Jeremy Bowen: Syria's new ruler is politically astute - but can he keep his promises?

• 'It's pure beauty' - Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored

• 'Danger of IS resurgence has doubled' - Syria's Kurds warn of group's comeback

• Ex-Israeli agents reveal how pager attacks were carried out

• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEO

• Rome to regulate Trevi Fountain crowds after restoration

• Another deadly crush in Nigeria at event offering free food

• Court steps in to sort Indian couple's three-year baby name battle

• Private plane crash in Brazil kills pilot and his family

• Five unanswered questions from the Pelicot trial

• 'I'd rather die than leave my mum': Survivors describe Mayotte cyclone horror

• Syria's minorities seek security as country charts new future

• Slovak PM meets Putin in unannounced Moscow visit

• Children among dozens killed in Israeli strikes, Gaza officials say

• Market attack suspect appears in court as anger grows over security

• Boy, 8, saves classmate with Heimlich manoeuvre

• Watch: BBC reporter returns to childhood home destroyed in Syria civil war

• Watch: Abseiling Santa descends from Guatemala bridge to deliver toys

• Watch: Relatives of inmates attempt to break into Mexican prison

• Watch: 90-year-old with Parkinson's enters weightlifting contest