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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Karzai 'stripped of outright win' A panel probing Afghan election fraud finds Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC learns. |
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| Author Ludovic Kennedy dies at 89 Sir Ludovic Kennedy, who was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice, has died at a nursing home aged 89. | |
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| Scientists announce planet bounty Astronomers find 32 new planets outside our Solar System, taking the number of known exoplanets to more than 400. | |
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| Poison abortion bid doctor guilty A London doctor accused of poisoning his lover to induce an abortion is found guilty at the Old Bailey. | |
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| Balloon family 'ready for arrest' The US couple accused of faking their son's disappearance in balloon are prepared to hand themselves in to police, their lawyer says. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Karzai 'stripped of outright win' A panel probing Afghan election fraud finds Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC learns. |
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| Iran uranium deal talks 'go well' Talks between Iran and world powers on a uranium enrichment deal are "off to a good start", says IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei. | |
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| Balloon family 'ready for arrest' The US couple accused of faking their son's disappearance in balloon are prepared to hand themselves in to police, their lawyer says. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | African leadership prize withheld A prize of $5m (£3m) for African ex-leaders is not being awarded this year, Sudanese magnate Mo Ibrahim says. |
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| Nigeria 'to give 10% of oil cash' Nigeria reportedly plans to give 10% of oil revenues to people in the Niger Delta, a key demand of militants there. | |
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| Santana steps down from SA post South Africa coach Joel Santana resigns eight months before the start of the World Cup finals after a run of eight defeats from their last nine games. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Balloon family 'ready for arrest' The US couple accused of faking their son's disappearance in balloon are prepared to hand themselves in to police, their lawyer says. |
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| Sudan offered Obama 'incentives' The US unveils a new Sudan policy, with "incentives" to improve the Darfur situation, but keeping pressure on Khartoum. | |
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| Jackson's ex-wife seeks $500,000 Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe sues over claims she wanted money in exchange for parental rights. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | China moves 330,000 in water plan China begins to resettle 330,000 people to make way for a south-north water diversion project, state media say. |
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| People smuggler crewed Tamil boat A convicted people smuggler has been found among a boat-load of Tamil asylum seekers in Indonesia, Australia says. | |
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| 'Militants' hunted in Tajikistan Police and border agents from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hunt suspected militants along their shared border in Central Asia. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | PKK 'surrender' tests Turkey plan Eight Kurdish rebels cross into Turkey from Iraq to surrender in a sign of support for Ankara's peace efforts. |
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| France detains 'top Eta leader' French police arrest two suspected Eta members, including a senior political leader of the Basque separatist group, officials say. | |
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| Fury as Berlusconi judge filmed Silvio Berlusconi comes under fire after a TV channel that he owns secretly films a judge who ruled against him in a bribery case. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iran uranium deal talks 'go well' Talks between Iran and world powers on a uranium enrichment deal are "off to a good start", says IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei. |
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| Israel spying devices found by UN UN peacekeepers discover Israeli spying devices in southern Lebanon that were planted during Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah. | |
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| Iran accuses Pakistan over attack Iran's president claims Pakistani agents were involved in a suicide attack that targeted a group of elite Revolutionary Guards. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Karzai 'stripped of outright win' A panel probing Afghan election fraud finds Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC learns. |
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| Pakistan 'push into Taliban area' Pakistan's army pushes deeper into South Waziristan as it battles to wrest control of the region from militants. | |
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| Fraud case hits Sri Lankan shares The Sri Lankan stock market falls sharply after the arrest of a Sri Lankan billionaire investor in New York on insider trading charges. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Poison abortion bid doctor guilty A London doctor accused of poisoning his lover to induce an abortion is found guilty at the Old Bailey. |
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| Care worker taped up man's mouth A mental health worker who taped up the mouth of a dying elderly dementia patient at a Bournemouth hospital is sentenced. | |
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| Author Ludovic Kennedy dies at 89 Sir Ludovic Kennedy, who was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice, has died at a nursing home aged 89. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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| Poison abortion bid doctor guilty A London doctor accused of poisoning his lover to induce an abortion is found guilty at the Old Bailey. |
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| Honour case man 'beat daughter' A father "badly beat up" the daughter he is accused of murdering, his wife tells a trial at the Old Bailey. | |
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| Firefighters begin strike action Firefighters in South Yorkshire begin 24 hours of strike action in response to a continuing dispute over shift patterns. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Apology follows swine flu delay Health Minister Michael McGimpsey apologises to the family of a child told she had swine flu after her funeral. |
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| Haulier fined over fitter death A haulage company is fined £75,000 over health and safety failings which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old fitter. | |
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| Wife 'pleaded' with killer gang A man was beaten to death as his wife pleaded with his attackers to stop, Belfast Crown Court hears. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Nurses 'too busy' for proper care More than half of nurses working in Scotland are "too busy" to provide patients with the standard of care they would like to, a union claims. |
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| Author Ludovic Kennedy dies at 89 Sir Ludovic Kennedy, who was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice, has died at a nursing home aged 89. | |
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| Town welcomes huge cruise liner One of the biggest passenger ships ever built - the cruise liner Queen Mary 2 - is in Greenock for the first time on Monday. | |
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| WALES | |
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| Poison abortion bid doctor guilty A London doctor accused of poisoning his lover to induce an abortion is found guilty at the Old Bailey. |
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| Accused's 'sat nav burial record' A man accused of murdering a woman recorded the area near where he buried her body on his car sat nav, a jury hears. | |
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| Anti-Islamic extremism march off A protest by the Welsh Defence League which had been due to take place on Saturday will not going ahead, say police. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | UKIP may have to repay £363,697 The UK Independence Party loses the latest stage of its battle to avoid having to repay £363,697 of donations. |
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| Hain BNP warning rejected by BBC The BBC rejects Peter Hain's warning it could face legal action over BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. | |
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| Children's chief no patsy - Balls Ed Balls says the new children's commissioner will be no "patsy" - after an MPs' committee questions the appointment. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Tougher scrutiny for home loans Borrowers face a mortgage affordability test from lenders as the Financial Services Authority aims to step up regulation. |
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| Union urged to cancel post strike Royal Mail offers to approach the conciliation service Acas to discuss modernisation, but only if planned strikes are called off. | |
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| BA chief in 'frank' union talks British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh holds "open and frank" talks with unions to try to avoid a strike by cabin crew. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | PCC to examine Mail Gately column The Press Complaints Commission is to ask the Daily Mail to respond to complaints about a column it ran on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. |
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| 'Mock' rapped over swimmer jibes Satire show Mock The Week breached guidelines over comments about swimmer Rebecca Adlington, the BBC Trust rules. | |
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| Author Ludovic Kennedy dies at 89 Sir Ludovic Kennedy, who was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice, has died at a nursing home aged 89. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Scientists announce planet bounty Astronomers find 32 new planets outside our Solar System, taking the number of known exoplanets to more than 400. |
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| PM warns of climate 'catastrophe' The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a new deal on climate change within 50 days, the prime minister warns. | |
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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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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Millions tricked by 'scareware' Online criminals are making millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-virus software, security experts say. |
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| Broadband test offers street view Users will be able to see what broadband speed their neighbour gets using a new speed test | |
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| Police win data deletion appeal Five police forces win an appeal against a ruling that they should delete records on criminal convictions from their database. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Egg screening 'ups IVF success' Women struggling to conceive will be given hope by a new technique which can double the chance of IVF success, say experts. |
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| Overweight 'should be protected' Campaigners are calling for new measures to clamp down on discrimination against overweight people. | |
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| Pre-diabetes 'timebomb' warning An estimated seven million people in the UK have early warning signs of diabetes, a charity has warned. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | More choice on school start age Parents in England are to be given more choice about when their children start primary school. |
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| 'Stark split' in education levels The qualifications gap between the most and least educated areas of Britain is growing wider, reports the UCU lecturers' union. | |
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| Children's chief no patsy - Balls Ed Balls says the new children's commissioner will be no "patsy" - after an MPs' committee questions the appointment. | |
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| 1989: Guildford Four released after 15 years The Guildford Four are released after the Court of Appeal quashes their convictions. | |||
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| 2004: British aid worker kidnapped in Iraq A senior aid worker for Care International, Margaret Hassan, is kidnapped on her way to work in Iraq. | |||
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| 1987: Shares plunge after Wall Street crash The UK stock market bottoms out after shares on Wall Street plummet following a wave of panic selling. | |||
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