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22 December 2011 Last updated at 18:55 ET

Argentina takes newsprint controlCristina Fernandez was sworn in for her second term on 10 December 2011

Argentina's government wins control of newsprint supplies, amid a long-running feud between the president and a major media group.

Members of the Popular Revolutionary Anti-Terrorist Army of Colombia (ERPAC) walk into the Las Malocas recreational park, on the outskirts of Villavicencio, Meta, on December 22, 2011Colombia drug suspects surrender

The first members of a criminal gang said to control much of the drugs trade on Colombia's Eastern Plains hand themselves to the authorities.

Brazil twins share one body

Conjoined twins have been born in Brazil with two heads, two functioning brains and two backbones - but a single heart.

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