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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Ashcroft admits 'non-dom' status Conservative donor and deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft admits he does not pay UK tax on his earnings outside of Britain. |
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| Chile troops tackle quake looters The Chilean military tries to restore order after the country's devastating earthquake, arresting dozens and shooting a man dead. | |
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| Bosnian war leader arrested in UK A former member of Bosnia's wartime presidency is held at Heathrow Airport over alleged war crimes. | |
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| UK soldier killed in Afghanistan A British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms. | |
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| Boyfriend held over double murder A 21-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and her baby daughter in Hampshire. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Chile troops tackle quake looters The Chilean military tries to restore order after the country's devastating earthquake, arresting dozens and shooting a man dead. |
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| US plans 'dramatic' nuclear cuts US President Barack Obama is planning "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official says. | |
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| Medvedev's fury over Olympic flop President Dmitry Medvedev calls on Russian Olympic officials to resign over the nation's poor performance in Vancouver. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria police held over deaths Seventeen Nigerian police officers are arrested over the alleged extra-judicial killing of members of a religious sect. |
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| Nkunda seeks end to Rwanda arrest Congolese rebel chief Laurent Nkunda goes to court in a bid to end 14 months of house arrest in Rwanda. | |
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| Petition opposes Uganda gay bill A 450,000-name petition opposing Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill is handed to the speaker of parliament. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Chile troops tackle quake looters The Chilean military tries to restore order after the country's devastating earthquake, arresting dozens and shooting a man dead. |
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| US plans 'dramatic' nuclear cuts US President Barack Obama is planning "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official says. | |
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| Venezuela 'helped Eta and Farc' A Spanish judge accuses Venezuela of assisting Eta and Farc militants, who plotted to kill Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Pru shares hit by $35bn Asia deal Prudential shares tumble after the insurer unveils $35.5bn (£23bn) deal to buy one of Asia's biggest insurance firms. |
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| Toyota boss apologises in China The president of Toyota apologises in China, the world's largest auto market, for a safety recall over faults. | |
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| China fires police over 'torture' Two senior Chinese police officers are dismissed and four disciplined over the alleged fatal torture of a man in custody. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Karadzic calls Serb cause 'holy' Former leader Radovan Karadzic says the Serb cause in the Bosnian war was "just and holy", as his genocide trial resumes. |
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| Walls blamed for storm disaster Blame is being laid on France's aged sea defences after violent storms left some 50 dead and thousands homeless along the country's Atlantic coast. | |
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| Venezuela 'helped Eta and Farc' A Spanish judge accuses Venezuela of assisting Eta and Farc militants, who plotted to kill Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iran 'not co-operating' says IAEA The UN's nuclear watchdog says it cannot confirm all Iran's nuclear activities are peaceful as Tehran is not being co-operative enough. |
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| W Bank cabinet in shrine protest The Palestinian Authority moves its weekly cabinet meeting to Hebron, the scene of daily protests about Israeli claims to two West Bank shrines. | |
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| Hamas to keep British man in jail Hamas announces it is to hold British journalist Paul Martin for another 15 days in jail in the Gaza Strip. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Afghan teenagers risk life for Europe United Nations aid agencies are increasingly concerned about the number of children from Afghanistan migrating across Europe alone. |
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| Nato soldiers die in Afghanistan Nato says four of its troops have been killed in three separate attacks in western and southern Afghanistan. | |
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| India beat Pakistan in hockey cup India win their opening match in the men's field hockey World Cup in Delhi - against arch-rival Pakistan. | |
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| UK | |
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| Ashcroft admits 'non-dom' status Conservative donor and deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft admits he does not pay UK tax on his earnings outside of Britain. |
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| Boyfriend held over double murder A 21-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and her baby daughter in Hampshire. | |
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| UK soldier killed in Afghanistan A British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Boyfriend held over double murder A 21-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and her baby daughter in Hampshire. |
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| Man 'executed' by masked intruder A man was "executed" and his partner critically hurt when they were confronted by an armed man at their Bradford home, a court hears. | |
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| Threat to '25,000 council jobs' A BBC survey says at least 25,000 English council jobs are at risk in the next few years as Gordon Brown defends the government's help for councils. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Trust admits neglect over death Belfast Health and Social Care Trust admits negligence over the care of a south Belfast pensioner who died in hospital. |
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| Extradition for Basque separatist A court in Belfast orders the extradition of a Basque separatist convicted of 25 murders in Spain to face charges of justifying terror. | |
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| Women attacked by man in car park A woman is sexually assaulted and her friend physically assaulted by a man after leaving a bar in Newry. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Scottish couple missing in Chile The families of a Scottish couple who are missing after the earthquake in Chile say they are still waiting to hear from them. |
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| Da Vinci robbery details recalled The trial of five men accused of conspiring to extort £4.25m for the return da Vinci painting hears about its theft. | |
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| Island murder case jury sent home The jury in the trial of two men accused of murder on an Orkney island has been sent home for the night. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Stabbed daughter 'wanted to die' A man stabbed his daughter through the heart because she "wanted to die" after being raped, a murder jury is told. |
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| More support for stronger Senedd People in Wales increasingly support the proposal for a full law-making Welsh assembly, a BBC Wales/ICM poll suggests. | |
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| Aberystwyth-London route rejected Plans for a direct train service between Aberystwyth and London is rejected by the rail regulator. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Ashcroft admits 'non-dom' status Conservative donor and deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft admits he does not pay UK tax on his earnings outside of Britain. |
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| Tackle fear of crime, says Brown Gordon Brown tells police forces to get more officers on the beat in an effort to tackle the fear of crime. | |
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| Tories to reform academy system A Tory government would rush through a new law to allow more schools in England to become academies, Michael Gove says. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Pru shares hit by $35bn Asia deal Prudential shares tumble after the insurer unveils $35.5bn (£23bn) deal to buy one of Asia's biggest insurance firms. |
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| UK pound drops on election fears The pound tumbles to a 10-month low as fears grow the UK will have a hung parliament in the upcoming election. | |
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| UK banks see surge in bad debts The level of bad debts written off because defaulting borrowers will never repay them shot up in 2009 to a new record, figures show. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Miranda show leads TV nominations BBC Two comedy Miranda leads the nominations for the 2009 prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) awards. |
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| Stars saddle up for charity ride Celebrities including David Walliams and Fearne Cotton set off on a thousand-mile bike ride the length of Britain for Sport Relief. | |
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| Memorial for jazz star Dankworth A memorial is held forJohnny Dankworth at the theatre he owned in Milton Keynes with wife Dame Cleo Laine. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | UK science 'must meet challenge' The UK government's top scientific advisory body urges ministers to maintain the upward trajectory in science spending to compete with other nations' research efforts. |
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| Ants navigate with 'stereo smell' Desert ants in Tunisia are the first animals known to navigate with stereo smell, using it to create an odour map of their surroundings. | |
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| MPs quiz 'climategate' scientist The climate scientist at the centre of the row over stolen e-mails faces his first public questioning. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Microsoft offers browser choices Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser. |
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| PS3 owners should 'stop gaming' Sony tells owners of older models of its PlayStation 3 to stop using them until it can fix a problem with its online games network. | |
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| Government tackled on wi-fi plans Libraries and universities are protesting about plans to make them police those who use their free wi-fi networks. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Pain 'should be seen as disease' Chronic pain needs to be recognised as a disease in its own right, experts say. |
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| Gene test aid to cancer treatment Scientists develop a gene test which predicts how well chemotherapy will work in individual breast cancer patients. | |
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| Campaign warns of dementia stigma One in three people are uncomfortable around people with dementia, a government survey has found. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Pupils to be told school places Parents are finding out whether their children have been given their first preference secondary school places for the autumn. |
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| Tories to reform academy system A Tory government would rush through a new law to allow more schools in England to become academies, Michael Gove says. | |
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| Lib Dems link school cash to poor Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg pledges to tie extra cash to poor pupils in a shake-up of school funding. | |
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| 1950: Communist spy jailed for 14 years Nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs is sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for espionage. | |||
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| 1954: US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini The biggest explosion ever made by man is witnessed in the Pacific when US scientists explode their second H-bomb at Bikini Atoll. | |||
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| 1994: West charged as death toll mounts Fred West is charged with two further murders following the discovery of more human remains in the garden of his Gloucester home. | |||
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