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 | BA in legal challenge to strike British Airways is to take legal action to try to prevent a 12-day cabin crew strike set to begin on 22 December. |
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| Jail term for nursery abuse woman A nursery worker who sexually abused children and shared indecent images on the internet is jailed for at least seven years. | |
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| Clooney film leads Globes chase Up In The Air, starring George Clooney, is leading the nominations at this year's Golden Globe awards. | |
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| Cuts made to boost Afghan mission The government is to buy 22 new helicopters and other equipment for Afghanistan but makes huge cuts to fund them. | |
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| Berlusconi sets 'love over hate' In his first message since an attack left him in hospital, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says love will triumph over hate. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | US jail to house Guantanamo men President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay. |
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| Deadly bombing in Pakistan town At least 22 people are killed in a bomb attack in the central Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan, officials say. | |
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| Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft takes to the sky on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Uproar at S Leone woman chief bid Sierra Leone traditionalists besiege a woman's house and stop her going home after she launched a legal bid to become a chief. |
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| Summit moved to keep Bashir away A France-Africa summit is put back and moved to prevent Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attending. | |
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| Eritrea urges footballers' return The Eritrean footballers who have gone missing in Kenya are welcome to return home, a minister says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| US jail to house Guantanamo men President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay. |
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| Europe strikes 'banana wars' deal Europe has agreed a deal to cut tariffs on banana imports, signalling the end of the world's longest-running trade dispute. | |
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| Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft takes to the sky on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | 'Ten killed' in Philippines clash At least nine rebels and one soldier are killed in fighting on southern Mindanao island, an army spokesman says. |
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| Australia introduces web filters Australia plans new laws forcing Internet Service Providers to filter out access to content that has been "refused classification". | |
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| China rejects releasing dissident China rejects calls from the US and the EU to release a prominent dissident as interference in its internal affairs. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Berlusconi sets 'love over hate' In his first message since an attack left him in hospital, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says love will triumph over hate. |
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| Turkey trial ends after 28 years A court in Istanbul finds 39 alleged leftists guilty of a range of crimes after a trial lasting a record-breaking 28 years. | |
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| Polanski film to debut in Berlin Film-maker Roman Polanski's latest feature, The Ghost Writer, is to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Israel fury at UK's Livni warrant Israel condemns as "cynical" the issuing of a war crimes arrest warrant in the UK for former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. |
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| Iraq cities rocked by car bombs A series of car bombings in Iraq kill at least eight people and wound scores in Baghdad and Mosul. | |
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| Iran denies nuclear trigger claim Iran denies a report in the Times newspaper that it has been working on a key component of a nuclear bomb. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Deadly bombing in Pakistan town At least 22 people are killed in a bomb attack in the central Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan, officials say. |
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| Suicide bomb hits Afghan capital At least eight people die in a suicide bombing in Kabul, as President Hamid Karzai holds an anti-corruption meeting there. | |
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| India edge Sri Lanka in thriller India beat Sri Lanka by just three runs in a sensational first one-day international which saw the second-highest aggregate of runs scored in a limited overs game. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Jail term for nursery abuse woman A nursery worker who sexually abused children and shared indecent images on the internet is jailed for at least seven years. |
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| BA in legal challenge to strike British Airways is to take legal action to try to prevent a 12-day cabin crew strike set to begin on 22 December. | |
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| Cuts made to boost Afghan mission The government is to buy 22 new helicopters and other equipment for Afghanistan but makes huge cuts to fund them. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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| Jail term for nursery abuse woman A nursery worker who sexually abused children and shared indecent images on the internet is jailed for at least seven years. |
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| Funeral for fatal dog attack boy The funeral takes place for a four-year-old boy who was killed by a pit bull dog, with the uncle arrested over his death carrying his coffin. | |
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| Loud sex woman admits Asbo breach A 48-year-old Wearside woman admits breaching an Asbo banning her from having noisy sex with her husband. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Dead baby 'victim of sex abuse' A court hears murdered child Millie Martin may have been sexually assaulted as her mother's partner is charged with the killing. |
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| Two men convicted of 'axe' murder Two men have been found guilty of murdering a man who was hacked to death in front of his daughter and heavily pregnant wife. | |
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| Stolen ATMs are found in woodland The remains of two ATMs believed to have been stolen at the weekend are found by police in County Fermanagh. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Relatives employment ban for MSPs MSPs are to be banned from employing family members at taxpayers' expense, Scottish Parliament bosses say. |
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| RAF Kinloss hit by defence cuts The RAF base at Kinloss in Moray is to bear the brunt of military budget cuts in Scotland, it has been confirmed. | |
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| Animal welfare charity feud ends Peace has been declared in a long-running feud between two animal welfare charities, it is confirmed. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Cricketer used bat to thwart raid A judge praises a teenager who used his cricket bat to tackle a masked raider who stormed into his family's shop. |
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| Welsh troops reach Afghanistan The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the first of the 500 extra UK troops promised by the prime minister, arrive in Afghanistan. | |
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| Crash death lorry driver jailed A lorry driver is jailed for hitting a line of traffic queuing on the M40 and killing a mother of two from Oxfordshire. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Cuts made to boost Afghan mission The government is to buy 22 new helicopters and other equipment for Afghanistan but makes huge cuts to fund them. |
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| MP laughs off 'bell tower' claim Defence minister Quentin Davies dismisses the row over his £20,700 bell tower expenses claim as "a joke". | |
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| Relatives employment ban for MSPs MSPs are to be banned from employing family members at taxpayers' expense, Scottish Parliament bosses say. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Boeing Dreamliner in first flight Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft takes to the sky on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late. |
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| BA in legal challenge to strike British Airways is to take legal action to try to prevent a 12-day cabin crew strike set to begin on 22 December. | |
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| Borders staff may go by Christmas All 1,100 staff at book chain Borders will lose their jobs on Christmas Eve unless a buyer is found this week, administrators warn. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Clooney film leads Globes chase Up In The Air, starring George Clooney, is leading the nominations at this year's Golden Globe awards. |
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| Rock anthem outselling McElderry Rage Against The Machine are leading The X Factor's Joe McElderry in the Christmas number one race, figures show. | |
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| Funeral held for Corrie's Jones A "beautiful and dignified" funeral service is held for Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones, who died earlier this month. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | 'Seal a deal', climate talks told High-level talks at the UN climate summit begin, with UN chief Ban Ki-moon telling nations to "seal a deal" on climate change. |
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| 'Super-Earths' orbit nearby stars Planet-hunters discover two "super-Earths" - rocky planets orbiting two nearby Sun-like stars. | |
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| Satellites weigh California water A Nasa satellite mission has weighed the water lost by the US State of California's heartland since 2003. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Australia introduces web filters Australia plans new laws forcing Internet Service Providers to filter out access to content that has been "refused classification". |
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| Teletext to close mid-December The Teletext information service will close in the island and across the UK on 16 December 2009 including flight information. | |
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| Ships tracked with smart software Monitoring of global shipping movements could help container vessels burn less fuel and speed up turnaround in port. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Chief Medical Officer retiring The Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, has said he is stepping down from the job in May. |
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| Class divide 'in child obesity' A widening class gap is likely to be seen in the coming years over childhood obesity, a study suggests. | |
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| NHS boss urges doctors pay cut A senior NHS official in Glasgow says doctors should consider a pay cut to help tackle the health gap between rich and poor. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Poor white boys struggle in GCSEs Poor white teenage boys in England have slipped further behind other youngsters in their GCSE results in this year's exams. |
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| University must prove 'adequacy' London's biggest university may not receive extra funding unless it proves its "adequacy" after a finance crisis, it admits. | |
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| Virtual testing for new schools Students in Birmingham will be able to test plans for rebuilding schools using a computer-game style virtual world. | |
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| 2004: Blunkett resigns over visa accusations The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, resigns after an email implicates him in using his position to grant favours to his ex-lover. | |||
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| 1993: Anglo-Irish pact paves way for peace The British and Irish prime ministers John Major and Albert Reynolds sign the historic Joint Declaration for Peace on the steps of Downing street. | |||
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| 1982: Spain opens border with the Rock Scenes of jubilation as the gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain are to opened for the first time in 13 years. | |||
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