• Farming is threatened by a drought in the north-east, and by the regroupment policy, which has resulted in peasant farmers losing access to their fields.

    ECONOMIST: Burundi

  • Seismic activity triggered by the test at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east of the country was detected by several nations.

    BBC: North Korea nuclear test: No radiation detected

  • The versatile Finnish international became Sunderland manager Roy Keane's first summer signing on Wednesday, but is set to be joined at the north-east club by Pascal Chimbonda, Steed Malbranque and Younes Kaboul.

    CNN: Sunderland begin Tottenham player raid

  • The Diocese of Lincoln covers Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire making it the largest diocese in England by area.

    BBC: New bishop is appointed to Diocese of Lincoln

  • Arms sent to the Nuri group from Tajiks in north-east Afghanistan were countered by supplies from Russia and Tajikistan's neighbour Uzbekistan, both determined to stop Islamists gaining power close to their territory.

    ECONOMIST: Tajikistan

  • Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.

    ECONOMIST: The melting north | The

  • Analysts expect many of the 30, 000 new construction jobs - the sector's best performance in 15 months - to reflect rebuilding in the north-east of the US following the damage inflicted by Storm Sandy in October.

    BBC: US unemployment rate holds steady in December at 7.8%

  • Food is being delivered normally in most of the north-east, which is controlled by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.

    ECONOMIST: The race to get food into Afghanistan before winter is on

  • The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities across north-east India.

    BBC: Elephants have been raiding villages in search of beer

  • In the slacker jobs market of the north-east, the index was up by only 2.6%, compared with 2.5% in 1996.

    ECONOMIST: The labour market

  • The Babao mine in the city of Baishan in the north-east of the country is run by the state-owned Tonghua Mining Group.

    BBC: Search for Tibet miners after landslide buries huts

  • All roads leading to the predominantly Sunni town of Qara Tappah, about 120km (75 miles) north-east of Baghdad, were blocked by armed tribesmen, AP news agency reported.

    BBC: Iraq violence: Baghdad hit by deadly car bomb

  • Another solution was handing powers to elected regional assemblies, said Prof Hazell, which although "dead for the time being" after being overwhelmingly rejected by voters in the North-East, should not be "written-off forever".

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Luke Harwood, 18, from Havering, east London, was found by police on Monday near Broadmead Playing Fields in Woodford Green, north-east London.

    BBC: Luke Harwood death: Sixth person charged in murder inquiry

  • Parts of north-east England and Scotland have been hit by snowfall as well as high winds with snow ploughs needed to keep some roads open.

    BBC: Rain and high winds battering UK

  • Both regions grew by 14%, while the north-east and the Midwest managed just 3% and 4% growth respectively.

    ECONOMIST: The census

  • The argument for devolution for the North-East has also been given a huge push by the establishment of a parliament in Edinburgh.

    ECONOMIST: The North-East

  • The ambush came after 55 people were reportedly killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist militant group.

    BBC: Nigeria attack: Nasarawa cult ambush 'kills 30 police'

  • Mr Olsen thinks it no coincidence that a disproportionate number of the Democrats' most vulnerable House seats in the South, the north-east and the Midwest are in districts dominated by blue-collar whites.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • But it turns out that London, Northern Ireland and, by a very narrow margin, the north-east of England, had a higher spend per head in 2010-11.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Braveheart or iPad?

  • Vincent Harushimana, an adviser to the governor of Muramvya Province, said the attack on Bukeye, 55 km (34 miles) north-east of Bujumbural, was carried out on Wednesday by the rebels who came from nearby Kibira National Forest.

    BBC: Uncertainty over Burundi camps pledge

  • On August 17th Block Island, an idyllic spot on Long Island Sound north-east of New York city, will be graced by a holiday visit from one William Jefferson Clinton, plus 200 of his closest friends (Secret Service men and reporters, mostly).

    ECONOMIST: Wish you weren��t here

  • More than 100 people died and hundreds were wounded by shells fired from German cruisers off the north-east coast on 16 December 1914.

    BBC: Grant for Hartlepool WWI commemorations

  • Huge improvements were registered not only in China but also in South-East Asia and north Africa, where dependency ratios fell by 40 points.

    ECONOMIST: Demography

  • Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven.

    WSJ: Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup

  • She believed she could bring peace to the island by offering the Tamils generous autonomy in the north-east, but the Tigers' leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, appears unwavering in his demand for a separate state.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • The majority of mainland state media continue to stay silent on the identity of Dorothy Lu Lingzi, a Chinese student from north-east Shenyang, who was one of three people killed by the Boston marathon bombings.

    BBC: China media: Boston victim mourned

  • The firm employs more than 800 people in the north-east of England and said it would create 230 jobs, by 2015.

    BBC: Vantec Europe to create 230 jobs in Sunderland

  • Mr Perben said the Muslim scarf, worn by the juror at a trial in Bobigny, north-east of Paris, was contrary to the principle of impartiality.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | French juror barred for headscarf

  • Of the north-east's GDP, two-thirds was being produced by state-owned firms, many of which were loss-making, says Cui Wantian of Liaoning University (he thinks they now contribute less than 50%, compared with about 30% nationally).

    ECONOMIST: Reforming the north-east

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