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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Anger at Mail plan to hire temps Royal Mail's decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary staff to cope with a national strike is criticised by the postal workers' union. |
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| US decision after Afghan result The US says it will take no decision on more troops to Afghanistan until it decides its government is a "true partner". | |
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| Brilliant Button clinches title Jenson Button seals the drivers' championship with a superb recovery drive at a dramatic Brazilian GP won by Red Bull's Mark Webber. | |
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| Airport stops scans on children Manchester Airport bans full-body "naked" security scans of children, because of child protection concerns. | |
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| US balloon boy case 'was a hoax' Colorado police say the incident where a US boy was believed swept away in a hot air balloon was a hoax. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | US decision after Afghan result The US says it will take no decision on more troops to Afghanistan until it decides its government is a "true partner". |
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| Iranian commanders assassinated Senior members of the elite Revolutionary Guards are among 31 people killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran. | |
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| 'Ethical' stem cell crop boosted US researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Guinea's leader misses deadline Guinea's ruler postpones an announcement on his presidential election intentions, missing an African Union deadline to do so. |
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| Kidnapped Darfur aid staff freed Two kidnapped aid workers are released after more than three months in captivity in the Sudanese region of Darfur. | |
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| Wanted Rwanda doctor denies claim A Rwandan doctor suspended in France after he was discovered to be wanted on genocide charges protests his innocence. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| US decision after Afghan result The US says it will take no decision on more troops to Afghanistan until it decides its government is a "true partner". |
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| 'Ethical' stem cell crop boosted US researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue. | |
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| US balloon boy case 'was a hoax' Colorado police say the incident where a US boy was believed swept away in a hot air balloon was a hoax. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | China jails five over chef death A court in central China gives five people prison sentences following riots that broke out after the death of a chef. |
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| North Korea gulags 'hold 150,000' North Korea holds more than 150,000 political prisoners in six prison camps across the country, a South Korean MP says. | |
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| Thailand covers Hitler billboard Museum officials in Thailand cover up a billboard depicting Adolf Hitler saluting after complaints from Germany and Israel. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Iceland reaches savers' agreement Iceland says it has reached a new agreement over the repaying of $5bn (£3bn) lost by Dutch and UK savers. |
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| Kidnapped Darfur aid staff freed Two kidnapped aid workers are released after more than three months in captivity in the Sudanese region of Darfur. | |
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| Brilliant Button clinches title Jenson Button seals the drivers' championship with a superb recovery drive at a dramatic Brazilian GP won by Red Bull's Mark Webber. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iranian commanders assassinated Senior members of the elite Revolutionary Guards are among 31 people killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran. |
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| Iraq cabinet ratifies oil deals Iraq's cabinet ratifies a deal with a British and a Chinese energy company to develop the giant southern oilfield in Rumaila. | |
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| Newsweek reporter freed in Iran An Iranian-Canadian journalist arrested during the protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election is freed. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Street fighting in Taliban bases Dozens of casualties are reported as the Pakistan army fights street battles to break the Taliban grip on South Waziristan. |
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| US decision after Afghan result The US says it will take no decision on more troops to Afghanistan until it decides its government is a "true partner". | |
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| Canadians intercept migrant ship A ship carrying 76 migrants has been seized off Canada's Pacific coast in a case of suspected human smuggling, officials say. | |
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| UK | |
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| Anger at Mail plan to hire temps Royal Mail's decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary staff to cope with a national strike is criticised by the postal workers' union. |
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| Airport stops scans on children Manchester Airport bans full-body "naked" security scans of children, because of child protection concerns. | |
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| Brilliant Button clinches title Jenson Button seals the drivers' championship with a superb recovery drive at a dramatic Brazilian GP won by Red Bull's Mark Webber. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Fatal house fire 'was accident' A fire which claimed the lives of a 15-year-old girl and her eight-year-old foster brother was "a tragic accident, police say. |
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| Power station demonstration ends Campaigners ends protests at a Nottinghamshire power station where dozens were arrested and several people were hurt. | |
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| Airport stops scans on children Manchester Airport bans full-body "naked" security scans of children, because of child protection concerns. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Trust 'regrets' swine flu delay The Western Health Trust is to review how delays occurred confirming that a 14-year-old girl's death was swine-flu related. |
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| Thieves use digger to steal ATM A cash machine is stolen from a petrol station in Warrenpoint, County Down, by thieves using a digger. | |
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| Gang shoots teenage boy in legs A 17-year-old boy is shot in both legs in a paramilitary-style attack in Londonderry's Gobnascale estate. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | SNP: Right to buy 'had its day' The right to buy for new council and social housing tenants will be abolished in Scotland in a bid to see off a shortage of homes. |
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| Man dies in superquarry accident A man dies in what is believed to have been an industrial accident at the Glensanda superquarry in the west Highlands. | |
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| Car seat baby rescued from fire A six-month-old baby is lowered to safety in a car safety seat after a fire breaks out in a block of flats. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Swine flu victim 'loved by all' The family of a 29-year-old man from north Wales who died on holiday in Spain after contracting swine flu pay tribute to him. |
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| Man in wheelchair left on Snowdon Rescuers criticise a group who left a man in a wheelchair on his own on Snowdon as they continued their climb. | |
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| TV choir top of classical chart Only Men Aloud!, winners of the BBC's Last Choir Standing contest, top the classical chart with their new album. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Clegg 'could end Afghan support' The Liberal Democrats' support for the UK presence in Afghanistan is not "unconditional", Nick Clegg says. |
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| Tories 'may sell off Met Office' A Conservative government would consider privatising the Met Office, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox suggests. | |
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| Iceland reaches savers' agreement Iceland says it has reached a new agreement over the repaying of $5bn (£3bn) lost by Dutch and UK savers. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Anger at Mail plan to hire temps Royal Mail's decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary staff to cope with a national strike is criticised by the postal workers' union. |
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| Lending rules to be tightened up Rules to make sure mortgages are only given to those who can afford the repayments are to be introduced. | |
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| Iceland reaches savers' agreement Iceland says it has reached a new agreement over the repaying of $5bn (£3bn) lost by Dutch and UK savers. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Burke beats Williams to top chart X Factor winner Alexandra Burke beats Robbie Williams to the top spot in the UK singles chart. |
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| Enfield comedy show ideas stolen Material for a new series of Harry Enfield's comedy show with Paul Whitehouse are stolen when a laptop is stolen from a car. | |
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| Calzaghe knocked out of Strictly Former boxer Joe Calzaghe has become the latest celebrity to depart BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing show. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London. |
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| 'Ethical' stem cell crop boosted US researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue. | |
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| LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. |
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| ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
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| Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | 'Cash for care' abuse warning The direct payment system for social care is putting vulnerable people at risk, campaign groups warn. |
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| Warning over fibroids treatment UK doctors are warning that one of the newer treatments for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm any subsequent pregnancy. | |
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| 'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. |
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| Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
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| Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. | |
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| 1989: East Germany leader ousted The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems. | |||
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| 1963: Aristocrat is new prime minister A Scottish Earl, Lord Home, wins a bitter contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party to become Britain's new prime minister. | |||
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| 1967: Soviets glimpse beneath clouds of Venus The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time. | |||
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