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| Monday, 22 March, 2010, 20:00 GMT 01:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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 | BA says strike to cost £7m a day BA says industrial action will cost £7m a day but says there will be little damage to its full-year earnings. |
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| Lobbying deal 'fantasy' - Adonis The transport secretary calls claims he was involved in a secret deal over a rail franchise "pure fantasy". | |
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| David Cameron's wife is pregnant David Cameron's wife Samantha is expecting a baby, due in September, a Conservative spokesman says. | |
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| Google stops censoring in China Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country's authorities. | |
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| Disabled 'wrongly denied' benefit Thousands of seriously ill and disabled people are being wrongly denied benefits, a report by Citizens Advice claims. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Clinton warns Israel of choices The US secretary of state calls on Israel to make "difficult" choices, amid a row over new homes in East Jerusalem. |
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| Democrats hail US healthcare bill Democrats hail the approval of legislation extending healthcare to 32 million more Americans as a historic advance in social justice. | |
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| Google stops censoring in China Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country's authorities. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Angola police jailed for killings Seven Angola police officers are sentenced to 24 years in jail each for killing eight people - reportedly the first such conviction. |
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| Ivory bids fall on poaching fears A UN wildlife trade meeting rejects proposals for further sales of ivory, amid concern on poaching controls. | |
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| Thousands mourn Uganda royal site Thousands of people go to the site of a royal mausoleum destroyed by fire in Uganda for the start of a week of mourning. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Democrats hail US healthcare bill Democrats hail the approval of legislation extending healthcare to 32 million more Americans as a historic advance in social justice. |
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| Bush and Clinton visit Haiti Former US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton visit earthquake-stricken Haiti to raise funds for reconstruction. | |
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| US firm wins UK tank-making deal US defence firm General Dynamics wins a £4bn contract to build a new light tank for the British Army. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Google stops censoring in China Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country's authorities. |
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| Rio Tinto group 'admit bribery' Four executive of mining giant Rio Tinto told a court in the Chinese city of Shanghai they took bribes, officials say. | |
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| Zhang feted at Asian Film Awards Chinese film director Zhang Yimou is recognised for his outstanding contribution to Asian cinema at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Sarkozy reshuffle after poll loss French President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffles his cabinet after a heavy defeat in regional elections. |
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| BA strike hits flight schedules More than a third of BA flights at major UK airports have so far been cancelled on the third day of strike action. | |
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| Berlin poker heist suspect seized German police say they have arrested the suspected mastermind of a dramatic armed robbery at a Berlin poker tournament. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Clinton warns Israel of choices The US secretary of state calls on Israel to make "difficult" choices, amid a row over new homes in East Jerusalem. |
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| Row grows over West Bank deaths An Israeli rights group questions the military's claim that two Palestinians were killed by rubber-coated bullets, not live fire. | |
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| Grandson of Iranian reformer held The grandson of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is arrested as he arrives in the country. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Afghan insurgents in peace talks A delegation from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's militant group meets President Karzai in Kabul, the Afghan government says. |
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| Indian state in Coca-Cola claim Drinks giant Coca-Cola is asked to pay $47m in compensation for alleged environmental damage at a plant it ran in southern India. | |
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| Pakistan seeks to probe scientist Pakistan seeks court permission to investigate nuclear scientist AQ Khan over claims he transferred nuclear secrets. | |
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| UK | |
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| BA says strike to cost £7m a day BA says industrial action will cost £7m a day but says there will be little damage to its full-year earnings. |
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| Troops axed in Army cutback plan Up to 500 soldiers are to lose their jobs as the MoD "rebalances" numbers, saying the Army is near its staffing limit. | |
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| 'Voice of boxing' Carpenter dies Former BBC boxing commentator Harry Carpenter dies aged 84. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Dead children in 'video farewell' A father made a "farewell video" of his two children before strangling them after the breakdown of his marriage, a Manchester court hears. |
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| Teenager jailed for man's murder A Somerset waitress is jailed for life, with a minimum term of nine years, for murdering the boyfriend of her best friend. | |
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| Speedy squatter couple sentenced A Romanian couple admit criminal damage by attempting to squat in a man's house in Northampton while he briefly goes out. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Election may delay Saville report The report into Bloody Sunday may not be made public until after the general election is held, the NI secretary says. |
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| House attacked with petrol bombs A woman in Ballymena escapes injury after the house she is in is attacked with several petrol bombs. | |
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| Celtic win unpaid tickets action A former Sinn Fein councillor has been ordered to pay Celtic Football Club £48,056 over hundreds of unpaid match tickets and season books. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Labour donor wants contract probe A businessman is to refer himself to the Accounts Commission over dealings with Glasgow City Council. |
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| Bus firm probes M74 bridge death An investigation is launched into claims a bus did not stop after hitting a woman who fell from a bridge on the M74. | |
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| Nobel Prize-winning inventor dies The Scottish scientist credited with having developed beta-blocker drugs, Sir James Black, dies aged 85. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Ex-CID chief jailed for data case A retired top detective at South Wales Police, turned private eye, is jailed for using contacts to get information from force computers. |
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| Two dead after lorry, car crash Two people are reported killed after a crash between a lorry and car on the A5 near Wrexham. | |
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| Light tank deal creates 200 jobs Parts for a new light tank for the British army will be made in Wales creating 200 jobs and safeguarding 250 existing ones. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Lobbying deal 'fantasy' - Adonis The transport secretary calls claims he was involved in a secret deal over a rail franchise "pure fantasy". |
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| David Cameron's wife is pregnant David Cameron's wife Samantha is expecting a baby, due in September, a Conservative spokesman says. | |
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| Lib Dems would cut fuel payments The Liberal Democrats say if they won power they would stop the winter fuel allowance for people under 65. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Google stops censoring in China Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country's authorities. |
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| BA says strike to cost £7m a day BA says industrial action will cost £7m a day but says there will be little damage to its full-year earnings. | |
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| US firm wins UK tank-making deal US defence firm General Dynamics wins a £4bn contract to build a new light tank for the British Army. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | GMTV rapped over consumer expert GMTV was wrong to allow its consumer expert Martin Lewis to promote his commercial website, Ofcom rules. |
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| Boy George's band 'may re-form' Singer Boy George says Culture Club might re-form in 2011 to mark his former band's 30th anniversary. | |
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| Doherty arrested on drug charges Singer Pete Doherty was arrested last week on suspicion of supplying drugs following the death of heiress Robin Whitehead, it has emerged. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | 'Cosmonauts' ready for Mars test Four Europeans agree to be locked away in steel containers for 18 months to simulate a mission to Mars. |
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| Ivory bids fall on poaching fears A UN wildlife trade meeting rejects proposals for further sales of ivory, amid concern on poaching controls. | |
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| Chair announced for climate probe A chairman has been announced for an independent review into the science published by the unit at the centre of the "Climategate" row. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Mixed reaction to fast net pledge Plans for super-fast broadband and putting government services online has won a mixed reaction from analysts and experts. |
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| Quantum tech boosts phone cameras Tiny semiconductor "quantum dot" particles could be used in mobile phone cameras that outperform larger approaches. | |
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| Germany warns against Firefox use The German government has warned against the use of the Firefox web browser, echoing a prior warning against Explorer. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Seaweed 'key to tackling' obesity Food made from seaweed fibre reduces the body's fat uptake by more than 75%, Newcastle researchers claim. |
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| US House passes key health bill President Obama's landmark healthcare bill narrowly passes the US House of Representatives, ushering in the most sweeping health reform in decades. | |
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| Nobel Prize-winning inventor dies The Scottish scientist credited with having developed beta-blocker drugs, Sir James Black, dies aged 85. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Oxford state pupil numbers peak The proportion of state school pupils at Oxford University looks set to be the highest since the early 1980s, figures reveal. |
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| Free internet to boost libraries Free internet access and the right to order any book are among the measures in a review on the future of libraries. | |
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| Colleges plea for Budget leniency Further education colleges in England are calling on the chancellor to protect them from cuts in Wednesday's Budget. | |
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| 1956: King convicted for bus boycott Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, has been convicted of organising an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama. | |||
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| 1979: British ambassador assassinated in Holland British ambassador in Holland Sir Richard Sykes is shot dead outside his Dutch home. | |||
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| 1963: Profumo denies affair with model The Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denies any impropriety with Christine Keeler. | |||
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