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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | NI increase 'will not cost jobs' Chancellor Alistair Darling denies that Labour's planned rise in National Insurance would lead to job losses. |
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| Attack on Pakistan US consulate Militants attack the US consulate in Peshawar, hours after another attack in north-west Pakistan kills 43 at a political rally. | |
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| Woods targets fifth Masters win Tiger Woods believes he can win his fifth Masters this week, despite having been out of action for five months because of a sex scandal. | |
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| Discovery blasts off from Florida The space shuttle Discovery launches from Florida in one of the last shuttle missions before the programme is shut down. | |
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| WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video The website WikiLeaks posts a video its says shows the 2007 killing by US military personnel of civilians in Baghdad | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Attack on Pakistan US consulate Militants attack the US consulate in Peshawar, hours after another attack in north-west Pakistan kills 43 at a political rally. |
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| Terreblanche revenge vow revoked The party of the murdered South African white supremacist, Eugene Terreblanche, retracts a threat to avenge his death. | |
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| Discovery blasts off from Florida The space shuttle Discovery launches from Florida in one of the last shuttle missions before the programme is shut down. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Terreblanche revenge vow revoked The party of the murdered South African white supremacist, Eugene Terreblanche, retracts a threat to avenge his death. |
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| Korea ship chases Somali pirates A South Korean navy warship is pursuing a huge oil tanker, hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. | |
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| Troops retake airport in DR Congo A joint operation by DR Congo troops and UN peacekeepers seizes control of Mbandaka airport from a local militia. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Discovery blasts off from Florida The space shuttle Discovery launches from Florida in one of the last shuttle missions before the programme is shut down. |
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| WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video The website WikiLeaks posts a video its says shows the 2007 killing by US military personnel of civilians in Baghdad | |
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| Jackson doctor expected in court Michael Jackson's relatives are expected at a court appearance by the doctor accused of giving him a lethal dose of anaesthetic. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Scores rescued from Chinese mine More than 100 miners are rescued from a flooded Chinese mine, but others are still thought to be trapped underground. |
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| Korea ship chases Somali pirates A South Korean navy warship is pursuing a huge oil tanker, hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. | |
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| Red-shirts blockade Bangkok shops Anti-government protesters shut down Bangkok's shopping district for a third day and storm an election office. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Ingushetia hit by suicide attack A suicide attacker kills two police officers in Ingushetia, in the latest bombing to hit Russia. |
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| Second Moscow bomber 'a teacher' A female teacher from the North Caucasus may have been the second Moscow Metro bomber, a Russian newspaper says. | |
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| EU harmonises Schengen visa rules A new visa code takes effect in most EU nations, speeding up visa procedures for travellers to Europe. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Hassan murder retrial postponed The retrial of a man previously convicted of involvement in the kidnap and murder of UK aid worker Margaret Hassan is postponed. |
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| Court bails Egyptian opposition A court in Egypt orders the release of 16 Muslim Brotherhood members, but relatives say they have not yet been freed. | |
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| Egypt releases ElBaradei backer Officials in Egypt say they have released the publisher of a book calling for political reform and praising Mohammed ElBaradei. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Attack on Pakistan US consulate Militants attack the US consulate in Peshawar, hours after another attack in north-west Pakistan kills 43 at a political rally. |
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| Nato admits killing Afghan women Nato admits its forces were responsible for the deaths of three women during a botched raid in Afghanistan in February. | |
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| Threat to Asia celebrity wedding Indian police investigate claims Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik is already married ahead of his wedding to tennis star Sania Mirza. | |
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| UK | |
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| NI increase 'will not cost jobs' Chancellor Alistair Darling denies that Labour's planned rise in National Insurance would lead to job losses. |
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| Balls lays down funding challenge Children's Secretary Ed Balls has challenged the Conservatives to match his promise of protecting school budgets from public spending cuts. | |
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| Line up of Hay Festival announced This year's Hay Festival will feature current and former presidents, as well as literature heavyweights. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Court told of Scarlett body find The trial of two men accused of killing Scarlett Keeling hears how a policeman found her body lying on a beach in Goa, India. |
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| Man sought over pensioner murder Police issue a photograph of a man they want to question about the murder of a pensioner in north London. | |
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| Injured soldier 'denied payout' An injured soldier says he was warned he may miss out on an insurance payout after carrying out the Carling Cup at Wembley. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Prisoners' jail protest goes on Twenty-eight republican prisoners continue a second day of protest barricaded into a dining room at Maghaberry jail. |
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| Motorway closed in security alert The M1 motorway is closed in one of three security alerts across Northern Ireland on Easter Monday. | |
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| Dissidents behind car bomb attack Dissident republicans are being blamed for a car bomb attack on a police station in south Armagh at the weekend. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Drug experts defend methadone use A group of experts have warned that crime, HIV and drugs-deaths would rise if addicts were taken off methadone. |
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| Man dies after fall from pedicab A man who was seriously injured in a fall from a rickshaw-style vehicle in Edinburgh city centre has died. | |
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| Court appearance over man's death A 37-year-old man is arrested in connection with the death of another man in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Teachers claim funding 'woeful' A teaching conference hears claims a key education reform may disguise a "woeful shortfall" in school funding in Wales. |
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| Mountain pass search for man, 33 Police and mountain rescue volunteers are searching the area around a mountain pass for a man missing since Saturday. | |
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| Line up of Hay Festival announced This year's Hay Festival will feature current and former presidents, as well as literature heavyweights. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| NI increase 'will not cost jobs' Chancellor Alistair Darling denies that Labour's planned rise in National Insurance would lead to job losses. |
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| Balls lays down funding challenge Children's Secretary Ed Balls has challenged the Conservatives to match his promise of protecting school budgets from public spending cuts. | |
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| 'Debate needed' on digital bill Opponents of the Digital Economy Bill call on Parliament to give it "the debate it deserves" ahead of its second reading. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Ross and Virgin Money in RBS bid Wilbur Ross, the US billionaire, pledges £500m to help Virgin Money bid for Royal Bank of Scotland's branch network. |
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| Oil price up amid jobs joy in US Oil prices extend gains above $80 a barrel amid optimism that improved US job creation will boost economic recovery. | |
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| Apple iPad sells 300,000 on debut Apple says it sold more than 300,000 of its latest product, the iPad tablet computer, on its launch day in the US. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Scouting For Girls top UK chart Pop trio Scouting For Girls knock Lady Gaga off the top of the charts with their first number one single, This Ain't A Love Song. |
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| Jackson doctor expected in court Michael Jackson's relatives are expected at a court appearance by the doctor accused of giving him a lethal dose of anaesthetic. | |
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| Madonna is 'most played' artist Madonna was the most played artist of the last decade in the UK, according to music licensing body PPL. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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| Discovery blasts off from Florida The space shuttle Discovery launches from Florida in one of the last shuttle missions before the programme is shut down. |
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| China rejects Mekong dam claims China rejects claims that its dams on the Mekong River are to blame for record low water levels in downstream nations. | |
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| Battle to stabilise Reef vessel Australian authorities battle to stabilise a ship aground near the Great Barrier Reef, but say it may take weeks. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | 'Debate needed' on digital bill Opponents of the Digital Economy Bill call on Parliament to give it "the debate it deserves" ahead of its second reading. |
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| Google to 'update' Buzz privacy Google will ask users of its social network Buzz to review their privacy settings, following continuing concerns about the service. | |
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| Apple iPad sells 300,000 on debut Apple says it sold more than 300,000 of its latest product, the iPad tablet computer, on its launch day in the US. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Tory cancer drug figures disputed An economist questions Tory claims that scrapping a planned national insurance rise could fund more cancer drugs. |
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| Pregnancy exercise 'slims babies' Exercise during pregnancy can be good for the developing baby as well as for the mother, research suggests. | |
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| Blocking gene boosts radiotherapy A gene which hinders the ability of radiotherapy to kill cancer cells has been detected by UK researchers. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Balls lays down funding challenge Children's Secretary Ed Balls has challenged the Conservatives to match his promise of protecting school budgets from public spending cuts. |
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| Teachers support campaign on cuts Public sector unions must join forces to fight cuts to jobs or services, the NUT annual conference in Liverpool is told. | |
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| Teachers 'allowed to use force' Teachers should be allowed to use reasonable force to break up fights, says Schools Secretary Ed Balls. | |
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| 1986: Berlin disco bombed A bomb explodes in La Belle disco crowded with US servicemen in Berlin, Germany, killing at least two and injuring over 100. | |||
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| 1976: Billionaire Howard Hughes dies One of the world's richest men dies on a plane to Houston, Texas, having spent two decades in seclusion. | |||
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| 1976: Callaghan is new prime minister James Callaghan wins the Labour leadership contest and takes over at Number 10 Downing Street. | |||
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