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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Obama warns Senate on healthcare The US president warns his party not to "jam" healthcare reforms through the Senate after losing a key seat. |
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| Man who attacked intruder freed A businessman jailed for permanently injuring an intruder who attacked him speaks of his happiness at being freed by the Court of Appeal. | |
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| 45-minute claim 'a bit of colour' Including the 45-minute claim in an Iraq dossier was "asking for trouble", Tony Blair's former security coordinator says. | |
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| Strong aftershock rattles Haiti A strong aftershock rocks Haiti, sending panicked people into the streets, eight days after a devastating earthquake. | |
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| Mother gets life for heroin death A mother convicted of murdering her brain-damaged son by injecting a lethal dose of heroin is jailed for life. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Obama warns Senate on healthcare The US president warns his party not to "jam" healthcare reforms through the Senate after losing a key seat. |
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| Strong aftershock rattles Haiti A strong aftershock rocks Haiti, sending panicked people into the streets, eight days after a devastating earthquake. | |
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| Mexico jail 'gang fight' kills 23 At least 23 inmates are killed after a fight breaks out at a jail in Durango, northern Mexico, officials say. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria riot city 'under control' Nigeria's army says the riot-hit city of Jos is under control after days of Muslim-Christian fighting left scores dead. |
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| DR Congo war deaths 'exaggerated' The number of people killed in a decade of war in DR Congo may be half of the accepted toll of 5.4m, a study suggests. | |
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| Nigeria 3-0 Mozambique Nigeria ease through to the last eight with a 3-0 win over Mozambique, courtesy of an Osaze Odemwingie double and an Obafemi Martins strike. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Obama warns Senate on healthcare The US president warns his party not to "jam" healthcare reforms through the Senate after losing a key seat. |
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| Strong aftershock rattles Haiti A strong aftershock rocks Haiti, sending panicked people into the streets, eight days after a devastating earthquake. | |
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| Mexico jail 'gang fight' kills 23 At least 23 inmates are killed after a fight breaks out at a jail in Durango, northern Mexico, officials say. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Vietnam jails democracy activists Four Vietnamese activists, including prominent lawyer Le Cong Dinh, are jailed for trying to overthrow the government. |
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| Arrests over Malaysia church fire Malaysian police say they have arrested eight people over the firebombing of a church earlier this month. | |
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| China axes 2D Avatar from cinemas China pulls the 2D version of Avatar from cinemas amid claims the plot mirrors forced land evictions in the country. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Brown unveils security measures A passenger "no-fly list" and a ban on Yemen flights are among new rules to be brought in after the Christmas Day bomb plot. |
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| Bomb alert shuts German airport Germany's Munich airport is partly closed down for a few hours after a traveller's laptop sets off an explosives detector. | |
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| Plant loss 'leads to fewer bees' The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be due to reduced plant diversity, research suggests. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Yemenis 'bomb militant's house' Yemen bombs a suspected al-Qaeda leader's house, a week after the military said he had been killed, reports say. |
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| US editor 'expelled from Israel' A US journalist with a Palestinian news agency is expelled from Israel a week after he was refused entry, the agency says. | |
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| Israel meets Iran at tourist fair The Israeli tourism minister meets an Iranian official , discussing the possibility of Israelis one day visiting Iran. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Al-Qaeda 'seeking South Asia war' The US defence secretary says al-Qaeda is trying to destabilise South Asia to provoke war between India and Pakistan. |
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| Pakistani suspect berates US jury A Pakistani woman alleged to have shot at US soldiers yells at jurors on the first day of her trial on Tuesday. | |
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| IPL to be shown live on YouTube Web search giant Google says it will stream all Indian Premier League cricket matches live on its YouTube video-sharing site. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Mother gets life for heroin death A mother convicted of murdering her brain-damaged son by injecting a lethal dose of heroin is jailed for life. |
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| Brown unveils security measures A passenger "no-fly list" and a ban on Yemen flights are among new rules to be brought in after the Christmas Day bomb plot. | |
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| Man who attacked intruder freed A businessman jailed for permanently injuring an intruder who attacked him speaks of his happiness at being freed by the Court of Appeal. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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| Mother gets life for heroin death A mother convicted of murdering her brain-damaged son by injecting a lethal dose of heroin is jailed for life. |
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| Boys tortured attack victims Two brothers tortured two young boys with broken glass, bricks and sharp sticks in a brutal ordeal in Edlington, a court hears. | |
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| Man who attacked intruder freed A businessman jailed for permanently injuring an intruder who attacked him speaks of his happiness at being freed by the Court of Appeal. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Adams anger over paper claims Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams strongly denies that he and his party have done enough to help victims of sexual abuse. |
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| Woman rejects SF abuse account A woman who says she was raped by an IRA man has rejected two Sinn Fein members' accounts of how they tried to help her. | |
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| City landlord forfeits 40 houses A woman who allegedly claimed housing benefit while owning and renting out more than 40 houses agrees to forfeit her properties. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Pay freeze for top civil servants Senior Scottish civil servants will have their pay frozen in the year ahead amid a "bleak" outlook for public spending, ministers say. |
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| Jobless total rises past 200,000 The number of people out of work in Scotland rose by 9,000 in the latest quarter, official jobless figures show. | |
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| Funeral date set for Bill McLaren The funeral of veteran rugby union commentator Bill McLaren will take place in his home town of Hawick on Monday. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Victim 'could not make break' A psychiatrist tells a jury how a 50-year-old man killed his ex-girlfriend, 21, because she was unable to make a clean break. |
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| 'Voluntary' plan for job losses Management at a medical products firm says 100 jobs will be shed through voluntary redundancy, as far as possible. | |
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| Row over festival alcohol licence Alcohol will be sold on the main field at the Urdd Eisteddfod for the first time this year, despite objections from some. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Brown unveils security measures A passenger "no-fly list" and a ban on Yemen flights are among new rules to be brought in after the Christmas Day bomb plot. |
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| RBS help for Cadbury bid attacked Nick Clegg says it is "plain wrong" that taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland is funding the Cadbury takeover, which could cost UK jobs. | |
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| 45-minute claim 'a bit of colour' Including the 45-minute claim in an Iraq dossier was "asking for trouble", Tony Blair's former security coordinator says. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Surprise fall in UK unemployment The number of people unemployed in the UK has fallen unexpectedly for the first time in 18 months, official figures show. |
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| Shares fall on China bank fears Global shares fall amid concerns that China's plans to cool lending by its banks will hurt the worldwide economy. | |
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| UK returns nuclear waste to Japan The first shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the UK has left Sellafield en route for Japan. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | And and Dec win best TV show gong Ant and Dec walk away with the first prize of the night at the National Television Awards which are taking place at London's O2 arena. |
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| U2 and Jay-Z record Haiti track U2, Jay-Z and producer Swizz Beatz have recorded a song together to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake, Billboard magazine says. | |
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| Wildlife photo stripped of award The winner of a major wildlife photography award is disqualified because the wolf featured in his photograph was likely a "model". | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Mammals 'floated to Madagascar' Ocean currents could have carried early mammals clinging to vegetation from Africa to Madagascar, a study suggests. |
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| Wildlife photo stripped of award The winner of a major wildlife photography award is disqualified because the wolf featured in his photograph was likely a "model". | |
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| Plant loss 'leads to fewer bees' The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be due to reduced plant diversity, research suggests. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Microsoft to patch browser hole Microsoft says it will issue a patch for a hole in Internet Explorer that could have been exploited by Chinese hackers. |
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| New York Times website to charge The New York Times is to charge for full access to its website from 2011, the latest newspaper to move in that direction. | |
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| Sony delays PS3 motion controller Sony delays the release of its highly anticipated motion controller for its PlayStation 3 console until the autumn of 2010. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Drug firm boost to malaria fight Pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, is giving free access to previously confidential data on thousands of potential anti-malaria compounds. |
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| English NHS 'the most efficient' The NHS in England provides better value for money than elsewhere in the UK, a study suggests. | |
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| Running 'improves memory' in mice New research helps explain why regular exercise improves brain power say Cambridge scientists | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Parties in fight over the family Labour and the Conservatives are setting out their plans to support families - expected to be a key election battleground. |
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| 'Segregation' mapped in schools Pockets of deep segregation are revealed in a mapping of the ethnic make-up of England's school. | |
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| Fewer schools hit language target The decline in teenagers taking foreign languages is continuing, a survey of 2,000 schools suggests. | |
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| 1961: John F Kennedy sworn in as US president The Democrat John F Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected president of the United States. | |||
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| 2002: Camp X-Ray pictures spark outrage Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects shackled and masked are published by the United States military. | |||
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| 1958: Explorers meet at South Pole Members of the team attempting the first surface crossing of the Antarctic have joined up at the South Pole. | |||
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