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Libya crisis
- Live updates: Libya
  
  International forces launch air strikes near Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata, witnesses say, but Col Gaddafi's forces continue their attacks.
Heart and Soul
- Healing Uganda
  
  The Lord’s Resistance Army, one of Africa’s most feared rebel militias, claimed they wanted to rule Uganda according to the Ten Commandments. How can young people brutalized by the LRA overcome their trauma? Paul Bakibinga reports from Patongo.
  - Duration: 28 minutes
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Newshour
- Triple tragedy
  
  Hundreds of lives were lost in the northern Japanese city of Minamisoma in the earthquake and tsunami. The city is now caught in the 20km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Katsunobu Sakurai is the city's mayor.
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Discovery
- Caught in the Web
  
  The internet has revolutionised communications, but for some the compulsion to stay online is becoming increasingly obsessive. Should the so-called Internet Addiction Disorder be classed as a mental illness?
  - Duration: 28 minutes
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World Briefing

BBC News reports from around the world.

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The World Today

For the best guide to the day ahead.
- Duration: 59 minutes
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Newshour

Libya's no-fly zone becomes a no-drive zone; a bomb in Jerusalem, and Liz Taylor dies

ListenDuration: 55 minutes
Business Daily

We look at security on Russian railways and how India's railways need a cash boost.

ListenDuration: 18 minutes

World Service
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Documentary
- Afghan abuse
  
  The dancing boys who perform for men at weddings
Global Business
- Jakarta's women
  
  The Indonesian women driving new business
Witness
- Great masters
  
  The public rivalry between da Vinci and Michelangelo
Newshour
- Yemen divided
  
  President warns coup attempt will lead to civil war
Documentary
- Family Matters
  
  Why intimate relationships are changing in Mexico
World Update
- 'Mad dictators'
  
  Are autocratic leaders really insane?
Witness
- Bamiyan Buddhas
  
  The Unesco site destroyed by the Taliban
Focus on Africa
- World Water Day
  
  Bringing water to Congo's Kinshasa
  
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Health Check
- Freudian slip
  
  Did a boy's horse phobia spur the Oedipus complex?
The Strand
- Mural city
  
  The street art renaissance in La Paz
World Drama
- Earth's Edge
  
  Listen to a radio play written from the North pole

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