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 | Airport body scanners on way - PM Full body scanners are coming to UK airports, starting at Heathrow, after Gordon Brown says they are crucial in stopping terror attacks. |
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| 'We'll fight every inch' - Brown Gordon Brown says Labour are ready to fight "every inch of the way" to win what he called a "big choice election" for Britain. | |
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| Twelve hurt in town centre blast Twelve people are injured when a building is "flattened" in a suspected gas explosion in Shrewsbury. | |
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| Man's street death 'suspicious' Fife Constabulary confirms it is investigating a suspicious death in Rosyth after a man's body was found in a street. | |
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| Police admit royal camera 'error' A security officer says police were wrong to confiscate cameras from people watching royals in Sandringham, Norfolk. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Al-Qaeda 'planning Yemen attack' The US warns al-Qaeda may be planning an attack in Yemen's capital, where the US and UK embassies have been shut. |
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| Bloody fighting hits Somali town At least 47 people are killed and 100 injured in fighting in the Somali town of Dhuusa Marreeb, a human rights worker says. | |
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| Pope's aide visits attack woman An aide to the Pope visits the mentally disturbed woman who assaulted Benedict during Mass on Christmas Eve. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Bloody fighting hits Somali town At least 47 people are killed and 100 injured in fighting in the Somali town of Dhuusa Marreeb, a human rights worker says. |
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| Fire guts parts of Ghana market Fire destroys parts of one of Africa's biggest markets - at Kumasi in Ghana - the second fire there in less than a year. | |
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| Volcano erupts in eastern Congo Lava from an erupting volcano in a sparsely populated area of DR Congo threatens rare chimpanzees, officials say. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Al-Qaeda 'planning Yemen attack' The US warns al-Qaeda may be planning an attack in Yemen's capital, where the US and UK embassies have been shut. |
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| Peru upholds Fujimori's sentence Peru's Supreme Court upholds a 25-year jail sentence imposed on former President Alberto Fujimori. | |
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| Suspected Mexican druglord caught A suspected senior member of one of Mexico's most feared drugs cartels is arrested in the state of Sinaloa, officials say. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Japan Airlines state loan doubled Japan's government doubles the offer of state-funded credit to troubled Japan Airlines to 200bn yen ($2.2bn; £1.3bn). |
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| China tackles river diesel spill Workers in northern China are trying to contain a pipeline leak that has spilled diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. | |
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| Hundreds flee Australia flooding More than 1,000 people are evacuated from a town in New South Wales, Australia, after days of flooding. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Trains collide in northern Turkey Two passenger trains collide in north-western Turkey, killing one of the drivers and injuring at least seven other people. |
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| France sells surplus flu vaccine France sells millions of surplus swine flu vaccine doses to other countries after finding it has more than enough for the outbreak. | |
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| Pope's aide visits attack woman An aide to the Pope visits the mentally disturbed woman who assaulted Benedict during Mass on Christmas Eve. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Al-Qaeda 'planning Yemen attack' The US warns al-Qaeda may be planning an attack in Yemen's capital, where the US and UK embassies have been shut. |
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| Iranian police die in drugs clash At least seven Iranian police officers have died in a clash with drugs smugglers in the east of the country, officials say. | |
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| Israel envoys told 'don't grovel' Israel's hardline Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman tells envoys to stop "grovelling" and defend national honour, media say. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | UN fears impact of Karzai setback A senior UN official says the rejection of most of the Afghan president's cabinet is a worrying setback. |
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| Bomb kills ex-Pakistan minister A former provincial minister has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in north-western Pakistan, police say. | |
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| CIA bomber 'courted as informant' The bomber who killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was invited to the base as a potential informant, officials say. | |
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| UK | |
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| Airport body scanners on way - PM Full body scanners are coming to UK airports, starting at Heathrow, after Gordon Brown says they are crucial in stopping terror attacks. |
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| Twelve hurt in town centre blast Twelve people are injured when a building is "flattened" in a suspected gas explosion in Shrewsbury. | |
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| Manchester Utd 0-1 Leeds United League One leaders Leeds United cause the biggest shock of the FA Cup third round by beating Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Twelve hurt in town centre blast Twelve people are injured when a building is "flattened" in a suspected gas explosion in Shrewsbury. |
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| Police admit royal camera 'error' A security officer says police were wrong to confiscate cameras from people watching royals in Sandringham, Norfolk. | |
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| Lotto winner in appeal for nephew A lottery winner has said his millions cannot help his 21-year-old nephew, who is in a coma in Mexico and in desperate need of blood. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Robinson issues Daly condolences First Minister Peter Robinson issues a statement of condolence on the death of Cardinal Cahal Daly. |
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| ATM stolen from Co Armagh shop An ATM is stolen in a burglary at a shop in county Armagh in the early hours of Sunday morning. | |
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| Coldest December in three decades Last month was the coldest December in almost 30 years according to readings taken at the Armagh Observatory. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Man's street death 'suspicious' Fife Constabulary confirms it is investigating a suspicious death in Rosyth after a man's body was found in a street. |
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| Previous conviction evidence call Scottish juries could be told of a defendant's previous convictions in new trials, following Peter Tobin's latest conviction. | |
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| Freeze leads to wildfowl hunt ban A temporary ban on the shooting of some species of wildfowl is announced in Scotland due to freezing conditions. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Ice fall rescue 'huge challenge' Rescuers say the operation to save a fallen climber in Snowdonia was one of the hardest they have encountered. |
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| Cardiff insist club not in danger Cardiff insist its financial future is not under threat after newspaper reports that the club faces a winding up order. | |
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| Arrests after air rifle shooting Five people are being questioned after a 20-year-old man is shot with an air rifle at a railway station. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | 'We'll fight every inch' - Brown Gordon Brown says Labour are ready to fight "every inch of the way" to win what he called a "big choice election" for Britain. |
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| Airport body scanners on way - PM Full body scanners are coming to UK airports, starting at Heathrow, after Gordon Brown says they are crucial in stopping terror attacks. | |
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| Tories 'not ruling out tax rises' A Tory government would be ready to put up taxes to get UK's deficit under control, says shadow minister Ken Clarke. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Price boost for first-time buyers Property is now affordable for first-time buyers in nearly four out of 10 areas of the UK, research indicates. |
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| Petition against Icesave pay-out Almost 25% of Iceland's voters sign a petition against a bill to repay foreigners who lost money in the Icesave banking collapse. | |
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| Japan Airlines state loan doubled Japan's government doubles the offer of state-funded credit to troubled Japan Airlines to 200bn yen ($2.2bn; £1.3bn). | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Celebrity Big Brother's final bow Pamela Anderson and MC Hammer are among the names rumoured for the last Celebrity Big Brother, which launches on Sunday. |
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| Harman attacks BBC for 'ageism' The minister for women and equality has attacked the BBC for "not valuing" older female news readers. | |
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| Doctor Who finale watched by 10m David Tennant's final outing as Doctor Who is watched by 10.4m viewers, according to overnight figures. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Sweden culls its resurgent wolves Sweden begins a legal cull of wolves with more than half the quota of 27 believed to have been killed on the first day. |
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| Freeze leads to wildfowl hunt ban A temporary ban on the shooting of some species of wildfowl is announced in Scotland due to freezing conditions. | |
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| DNA analysed from early European Scientists have analysed DNA extracted from the remains of a 30,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | French online piracy law in force The first effects of France's controversial new law against internet piracy will begin to be felt as the new year starts. |
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| 'Start-up' visas to boost US tech Plans to create "start-up" visas in the US for foreign entrepreneurs with hi-tech business ideas will be debated in 2010. | |
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| New Year Honours for game makers Four veterans of the UK's computer game industry have been given New Year Honours. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Human trials of artificial artery An artificial artery which the developers hope will save lives is set to be tested in human trials early this year. |
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| France sells surplus flu vaccine France sells millions of surplus swine flu vaccine doses to other countries after finding it has more than enough for the outbreak. | |
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| Plea to smokers to quit in 2010 Smokers throughout Scotland are being urged by a Scottish government minister to quit the habit in 2010. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | UCL rejects bomb suspect reports A London university rejects claims the Christmas Day airline bomb suspect was radicalised while studying there. |
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| Assaults by young pupils 'rising' Assaults by children aged five or under led to 2,600 suspensions from schools in England in 2007-8, figures show. | |
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| Recession 'threat' to education Teachers' leaders claim education funding is under a "very real" threat amid the recession. | |
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| 1980: Afghan leader defends Soviet invasion The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, is making his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup last week. | |||
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| 1993: US and Russia halve nuclear warheads US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Start II arms reduction treaty in Moscow. | |||
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| 1991: Britain expels Iraqi diplomats The Foreign Office is expelling eight Iraqi embassy officials from the UK following threats of attacks on Western targets. | |||
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