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The Syrian government has agreed to a temporary ceasefire in its  conflict with rebels to coincide with the Muslim Festival of Eid al-Adha.  As the truce approaches, rebel fighters are reported to have made gains  in the central city of Aleppo, which is being a battleground for weeks.  From the Turkey-Syria border, James Reynolds reports.

In Syria's northern city of Aleppo, shelling and gunfire suggested that  a truce was not the main concern among those fighting the war.  Opposition rebels say that they've now taken control of two  neighbourhoods to the north of the city center. It's not yet clear if  the Syrian army will try to take back the districts. The military  promises that they'll observe a four-day truce to mark the Muslim  holiday of Eid. By its pledge comes with important conditions, the army  warns that it will respond if rebels attack or even resupply. These  conditions may mean that the promise(-d) truce does not fully take hold.

The Burmese government says more than 50 people have been killed in a  new upsurge of violence between Muslims and Buddhists in the western state of  Rakhine. Abby Mosley reports.

The clashes between Buddhists Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities  begun on Sunday and have spread despite a curfew being inplace in many  areas. A spokesman for the state government said more than a half the  fatalities were women, and nearly 2,000 homes have been burnt down. The  United Nations says large numbers of people are fleeing the conflict  heading for overcrowded camps where tens of thousands are still stranded  after a wave of communal violence in June.

United States military has said the two of its soldiers have been shot dead in  Afghanistan by a man wearing Afghan police uniform. It's the latest in a  series of insider attacks against international troops. It happened in  the southern Uruzgan province. A spokeswoman said it wasn't clear  whether the attacker was a member of the Afghan police or had worn the uniform to get close  to the Americans.

A policeman in New York has been charged with plotting to kidnap, rape  and kill women and then eat them. Detectives have said they've found  details of more than 100 women on the computer of Gilberto Valle. In the  event, no one was harmed. Barbra Plett reports.

The ghoulish story of Gilberto Valle has shocked hardened lawenforcement  officials here. Acting on a tip off, the FBI searched his computer  and found E-mails and other electronic messages about schemes to abduct and  cannibalize women. He'd allegedly create records of at least 100 potential  victims getting some of the information illegally from a Federal crime  database. In one reported online exchange with a co-conspirator, Mr Valle  discusses how best to cook an identified woman and whether she'd fit  into his oven. He didn't get a chance to act on the plan, but he did get  as far as meeting her for lunch. Barbara Plett.

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The latest study of fish in the sea around a wrecked nuclear power station of Fukushima in Japan suggested the radio activity is continuing to escape  into the environment. Fish caught off the coast still have raised  levels contamination more than a year after the plant was disastrously  damaged by an earthquake. About 40% of the fish caught nearby is unfit for  human consumption. A BBC science correspondent says it has been  expected that the contamination would start to decline by now.

The Spanish authorities have rescued 17 people who were aborad a small  boat that capsized off the Moroccan coast. The bodies of at least 40  others were recovered. One of the survivors said the boat was carrying  more 70 migrants, who were trying to reach Spain.

Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Windows operating system to  address the way consumers are moving from personal computers to smart phones  and other mobile devices. Windows 8 is seen as crucial to Microsoft's efforts to regain ground lost to its rivals Apple and Goolge. From New York here's Mitchell Flary.

Microsoft's newest operating system Window 8 has been described as  make-or-break for the company. The world's largest software firm hopes  its latest offering will help it regain ground lost to Apple and Google as  mobile computing has taken off. The launch took place in the pier along  New York's Hudson River which was transformed with Windows 8 devices scattered among a model of the city Skyline. Microsoft is also making  one of its rare ventures into hardware making with its own tablet  computer.

People in the Bahamas have been preparing for the arrival of Hurricane  Sandy, the violent storm that earlier battered Jamaica Hanti and Cuba  killing at least two people. Public schools, government offices ,airports  and bridges were closed across the Bahamas. In southeastern Cuba the  hurricane created a storm surge and led severe flooding along the  coastline at Santiago de Cuba.

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