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 | Labour warn over rivals' 'cuts' Labour warn children will suffer from their rivals' plans, as parties focus on the family, and what the Tories call the "broken society". |
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| Lloyds reports return to profit Lloyds Banking Group says it returned to profit in the first three months of the year after losses on bad debts fell. | |
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| US extradites Noriega to France Panama's ex-leader Manuel Noriega is extradited from the US to France, where he is wanted for money laundering. | |
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| Goldman Sachs 'misled investors' Goldman Sachs profited at the expense of clients in the housing market collapse, a US Senate investigation finds. | |
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| Police publish Blair Peach report A previously secret police report into the death of an anti-racism protester in London 31 years ago is set to be released. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | US extradites Noriega to France Panama's ex-leader Manuel Noriega is extradited from the US to France, where he is wanted for money laundering. |
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| Smoke fills Ukrainian parliament A smoke bomb is thrown in the Ukrainian parliament amid protests over Kiev's extension of the lease for Russia's Black Sea fleet. | |
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| Australia shelves climate scheme Australia shelves plans for an emissions trading scheme after failing to get the measure through the Senate. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | President wins key Sudan election Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is declared the winner of this month's landmark polls, despite facing war crimes charges. |
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| Nigeria party leader is charged The chairman of Nigeria's governing party, Vincent Ogbulafor, is charged with fraud, as the party considers its presidential candidate. | |
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| Darfur rebels free peacekeepers Four peacekeepers with the joint UN-AU mission in Sudan's Darfur region have been released, the mission spokesman says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| US extradites Noriega to France Panama's ex-leader Manuel Noriega is extradited from the US to France, where he is wanted for money laundering. |
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| US Senate bars bank reform debate US Republican senators block moves to debate a bill proposing the most sweeping financial regulation reforms for 60 years. | |
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| Poison's Bret Michaels 'critical' Poison singer Bret Michaels remains in a critical condition in hospital after being diagnosed with a brain haemorrhage, his publicist says. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Australia shelves climate scheme Australia shelves plans for an emissions trading scheme after failing to get the measure through the Senate. |
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| Nauru poll fails to end deadlock A snap election on the South Pacific island of Nauru returns all 18 MPs to parliament, failing to end long-standing political deadlock. | |
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| Sausage solution to toad invasion Scientists in Australia design a cane toad "sausage" to help protect vulnerable predators from the poisonous toads. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| US extradites Noriega to France Panama's ex-leader Manuel Noriega is extradited from the US to France, where he is wanted for money laundering. |
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| Smoke fills Ukrainian parliament A smoke bomb is thrown in the Ukrainian parliament amid protests over Kiev's extension of the lease for Russia's Black Sea fleet. | |
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| Site chosen for super-telescope Europe intends to build the biggest telescope the world has ever seen on a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iraq impasse 'heightens violence' Continuing political uncertainty in Iraq is contributing to a rise in the number of civilian deaths, Amnesty International warns. |
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| Al-Qaeda 'tried to bomb UK envoy' Al-Qaeda is behind a suspected suicide attack on the convoy of the UK ambassador to Yemen, reports say. | |
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| Retrial over Lebanon singer death An influential Egyptian businessman stands trial again after being found guilty of killing a popular Lebanese singer in 2008. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Briton is jailed in Afghanistan A British man found guilty of corruption is sentenced to two years in one of Afghanistan's most notorious prisons. |
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| Indian strike over food prices Nationwide protests over the rising price of food and fuel hits various Indian states, disrupting some transport services. | |
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| UN questions Afghan guard's death A UN security guard may have been shot dead by Afghan police responding to a Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse last October. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Lloyds reports return to profit Lloyds Banking Group says it returned to profit in the first three months of the year after losses on bad debts fell. |
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| Labour warn over rivals' 'cuts' Labour warn children will suffer from their rivals' plans, as parties focus on the family, and what the Tories call the "broken society". | |
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| Briton is jailed in Afghanistan A British man found guilty of corruption is sentenced to two years in one of Afghanistan's most notorious prisons. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Police publish Blair Peach report A previously secret police report into the death of an anti-racism protester in London 31 years ago is set to be released. |
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| Girl charged with stabbing murder A 14-year-old girl is charged with the murder of a 45-year-old man in Brixton, south London, police say. | |
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| East London Line opens to public The new East London Line opens to the public, becoming part of the £1bn London Overground engineering project. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Town leads in anti-social orders More than half of all anti-social behaviour orders in NI relate to people living in the Ballymena council area, the assembly hears. |
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| CCTV examined over US bat attack CCTV footage is being examined in an effort to find those behind a baseball bat attack on a County Armagh student in Chicago. | |
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| Car set alight in petrol bombing A car and a house are damaged in a petrol bomb attack in Maghera in County Londonderry. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | SNP to begin BBC debate legal bid The Scottish National Party is to lodge court papers over its exclusion from the prime ministerial debate on BBC One. |
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| Police report 77 unsolved murders Scotland's eight police forces say there are 77 unsolved homicides on their files, but they are committed to reviewing them in the light of new evidence. | |
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| RSPB buys site for nature reserve RSPB Scotland is buying a slice of coastal land in southern Scotland in a bid to create a new nature reserve. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Swine flu cost in Wales revealed Official figures show the swine flu outbreak cost Wales £35m, but the true cost to the NHS might be higher. |
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| Queen back in town after 35 years The Queen is to visit Caernarfon Castle, the scene of the Prince of Wales' investiture in 1969, for the first time in 35 years. | |
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| Decision due for beach festival Festival organisers are waiting to hear whether they can stage a five-day event at Pembrey Country Park. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Lloyds reports return to profit Lloyds Banking Group says it returned to profit in the first three months of the year after losses on bad debts fell. |
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| BP doubles profit to hit $5.6bn First quarter profits at oil giant BP more than double from a year ago to hit $5.6bn thanks to rising oil prices. | |
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| US Senate bars bank reform debate US Republican senators block moves to debate a bill proposing the most sweeping financial regulation reforms for 60 years. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Hollywood sign is saved by Hefner The famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles is saved from demolition with a $900,000 donation from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. |
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| Peppa Pig moved from Labour event The company which licenses children's TV character Peppa Pig has withdrawn her from a Labour party election event. | |
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| McEwan up for comic writing prize Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan makes a comic fiction prize shortlist for his book Solar. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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| Australia shelves climate scheme Australia shelves plans for an emissions trading scheme after failing to get the measure through the Senate. |
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| Chimps 'feel death like humans' Chimpanzees deal with death in much the same way as humans, according to two studies. | |
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| Site chosen for super-telescope Europe intends to build the biggest telescope the world has ever seen on a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | UK seeks cyber security experts A government-backed competition has been launched to find Britons who can help protect the nation from cyber threats. |
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| Attack makes chips more reliable An attack on a widely used web security system could soon help make silicon chips more powerful and reliable. | |
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| Sony signals end for floppy disks Sony says it will stop selling floppy disks in 2011, signalling what could be the end of the venerable computer format. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Chocolate 'linked to depression' People who eat chocolate regularly are more depressive, experts discover. |
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| 'Pick the right veg' for health Obvious choices of fruit and vegetables are not necessarily the healthiest, say researchers. | |
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| Chilli peppers 'help pain relief' The hot substance in chilli peppers is opening up a new way to block pain, say experts. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Students threaten to swing seats Students campaigning against increasing tuition fees say they have the support of a thousand election candidates. |
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| Tories' warning on 'free schools' Prominent Conservative council leaders are warning their own party's schools policy could harm the quality of local education. | |
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| Social mobility 'lagging behind' Social mobility in England lags behind many developed countries - in terms of educational achievement, says a survey. | |
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| 1945: Russians and Americans link at Elbe Russian and American troops join hands at the River Elbe in Germany, bringing the end of the war a step closer. | |||
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| 1984: Libyan embassy siege ends The siege of the Libyan Embassy in London ends 11 days after the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the St James's Square building. | |||
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| 1961: Sierra Leone wins independence Sierra Leone becomes the latest West African state to win independence, after more than 150 years of British colonial rule. | |||
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