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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | 'Many casualties' in US explosion A huge explosion rocks a power plant Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured. |
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| Ainsworth warns on war casualties The defence secretary warns of casualties as UK troops prepare to take part in a major military offensive in Afghanistan. | |
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| Emotional Campbell defends Blair Alastair Campbell denies Tony Blair misled Parliament over the intelligence in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. | |
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| Heathrow expansion e-mails probed The Department for Transport is being investigated over claims e-mails about Heathrow airport's expansion were deleted. | |
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| Tougher rules for student visas Tougher rules are now in place to stop people abusing the student visa system to remain illegally in the UK. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Yanukovych 'wins Ukraine's poll' Exit polls from Ukraine's presidential election indicate opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has won. |
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| Iran sets new nuclear challenge Iran's president orders uranium enrichment to be stepped up, prompting the US to call for the world to "stand together". | |
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| 'Many casualties' in US explosion A huge explosion rocks a power plant Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Lebanon retrieves jet black box Lebanese searchers salvage a flight recorder from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed into the Mediterranean, killing 90 people. |
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| Swiss man cleared by Libyan court A court in Libya dismisses a case against a Swiss businessman who was accused of illegal business activities. | |
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| Zuma apologises over love-child South African President Jacob Zuma apologises for fathering an illegitimate child, after a national outcry. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| 'Many casualties' in US explosion A huge explosion rocks a power plant Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured. |
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| US snow causes major power cuts Tens of thousands of people remain without power in Washington DC and nearby states after a record snowstorm. | |
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| Palin attacks Obama at Tea Party Sarah Palin condemns Barack Obama as she urges a return to conservative principles, at the first US Tea Party convention. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Australia in huge China coal deal An Australian firm signs a $60bn deal to supply coal to Chinese power stations from a mine to be built in Queensland. |
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| Freed US man leaves North Korea US activist Robert Park arrives in Beijing after being freed from detention in North Korea, reports from South Korea say. | |
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| Toyota 'planning recall of Prius' Toyota is to recalling the latest model of its flagship Prius cars because of braking problems, reports from Japan say. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Yanukovych 'wins Ukraine's poll' Exit polls from Ukraine's presidential election indicate opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has won. |
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| Swiss man cleared by Libyan court A court in Libya dismisses a case against a Swiss businessman who was accused of illegal business activities. | |
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| France closes migrants' shelter French police close down a makeshift shelter for illegal migrants in the port of Calais, a day after it opened. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iran sets new nuclear challenge Iran's president orders uranium enrichment to be stepped up, prompting the US to call for the world to "stand together". |
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| Lebanon retrieves jet black box Lebanese searchers retrieve a flight recorder from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed into the Mediterranean, killing 90 people. | |
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| Iraq to debate poll candidate ban Shia political parties in Iraq stage demonstrations ahead of an emergency parliamentary debate on next month's elections. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Karzai may introduce army draft Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells a conference of the world's top defence officials in Germany he is considering introducing conscription. |
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| Thousands mourn Karachi bomb dead Mourners attend funerals for more than a dozen people killed in bomb attacks targeting Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi. | |
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| Media chief shot in Nepal capital The chairman of a Nepalese television station and cable network is shot dead in the capital, Kathmandu. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Ainsworth warns on war casualties The defence secretary warns of casualties as UK troops prepare to take part in a major military offensive in Afghanistan. |
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| Emotional Campbell defends Blair Alastair Campbell denies Tony Blair misled Parliament over the intelligence in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. | |
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| Heathrow expansion e-mails probed The Department for Transport is being investigated over claims e-mails about Heathrow airport's expansion were deleted. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Man hurt at football match dies A man who was injured during Stoke City's Premier League match against Blackburn Rovers dies in hospital. |
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| Prayers said after family deaths Prayers are said in a Shropshire town where the bodies of a mother, father and daughter were found two days ago. | |
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| Heathrow expansion e-mails probed The Department for Transport is being investigated over claims e-mails about Heathrow airport's expansion were deleted. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Margaret Ritchie new SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie is elected as the new leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party. |
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| INLA disposes of weapons caches The Irish National Liberation Army which killed Tory MP Airey Neave and more than 120 other people decommissions its weapons. | |
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| Royal Mail sorry for result delay Royal Mail apologises for problems delivering some exam results for the controversial Northern Ireland grammar school entrance tests. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Man's body found on country road Police launch an inquiry after a man's body was found on a main road in rural Stirlingshire in the early hours. |
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| Call to cut caffeine in alcohol Legal limits should be placed on the amount of caffeine in alcoholic drinks such as Buckfast, Scottish Labour says. | |
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| Scotland 9-18 France Scotland succumb to a superior French side at Murrayfield in their opening RBS Six Nations encounter. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | New group fights cull of badgers A new group says it will fight the badger cull planned for parts of west Wales to tackle the spread of bovine TB. |
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| Party investigates AM's night out Liberal Democrats look into claims about the hospital behaviour of a senior politician who was knocked unconscious on a night out. | |
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| Toshack excited by Euro 2012 draw Boss John Toshack is happy with a Euro 2012 qualifying group that will pit Wales against England. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Emotional Campbell defends Blair Alastair Campbell denies Tony Blair misled Parliament over the intelligence in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. |
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| Ainsworth warns on war casualties The defence secretary warns of casualties as UK troops prepare to take part in a major military offensive in Afghanistan. | |
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| Tories plan school powers shift Local authorities in England could lose many of their planning powers regarding schools if the Conservatives win the election. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Toyota 'planning recall of Prius' Toyota is to recalling the latest model of its flagship Prius cars because of braking problems, reports from Japan say. |
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| Ex-IMF economist warns on UK debt Britain should be seen in the same category of highly indebted countries such as Greece, a leading economist says. | |
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| Santander fault hits customers A power cut knocked out cash machine and online services for customers with Santander bank on Sunday. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Jazz star Johnny Dankworth dies Sir John Dankworth, a mainstay of the British jazz scene for more than 60 years, has died, his family has confirmed. |
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| Violinist waltzes to pop history An unknown Dutch violinist has made pop history with the highest charting classical album this century. | |
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| Man 'harassed' actress Knightley A 41-year-old man appears in court charged with harassing actress Keira Knightley. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Cloud forces shuttle launch delay Low cloud at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida prevents the shuttle Endeavour from launching on a final night flight to the ISS. |
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| Climate scepticism 'on the rise' The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests. | |
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| Dynamic Pluto revealed in images Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Microsoft tackles 17-year-old bug A 17-year-old vulnerability that dates from the days of DOS is being patched in Microsoft's February security update. |
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| US objects to Google books plan The US Department of Justice says that it is still not satisfied with a deal that would allow Google to build a vast digital library. | |
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| Pirate bill could 'breach rights' An influential group of MPs and peers says the government's approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of net users. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Pledge of one-to-one cancer care Every cancer patient in England will be offered one-to-one care by specialist nurses if Labour wins the election, the PM is to say. |
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| Premature birth gene clue found DNA differences which appear to affect the risk of giving birth early have been found by US scientists. | |
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| Artificial pancreas diabetes hope Scientists in Cambridge show that an "artificial pancreas" can be used to regulate blood sugar in children with Type 1 diabetes. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Tories plan school powers shift Local authorities in England could lose many of their planning powers regarding schools if the Conservatives win the election. |
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| Teachers 'lack violence training' A union calls for compulsory training on dealing with violence in class as a study suggests new teachers are ill-prepared. | |
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| Open University curbs Tesco deal The Open University is scaling back a scheme which allows students to pay for courses with Tesco clubcard points. | |
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| 1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany. | |||
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| 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US Four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, arrive in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States. | |||
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| 1974: Heath calls snap election over miners Prime Minister Edward Heath announces a general election and appeals to the miners to suspend their planned strike. | |||
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