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 | Petraeus calls for Afghan unity The new US commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, demands a united effort to tackle the nine-year conflict. |
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| Man hunted over double shooting Police search for the ex-boyfriend of a woman after she is shot and her new partner killed in a double shooting in Gateshead. | |
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| Argentina thrashed by ruthless Germany Miroslav Klose scores twice to move second on the all-time World Cup goalscoring list as ruthless Germany thrash Diego Maradona's Argentina 4-0 in their quarter-final in Cape Town. | |
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| DR Congo tanker fire 'kills 220' At least 220 people are killed after an oil tanker explodes and sets fire to a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
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| Pair held over boy's stab death Two teenagers are still being questioned by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a boy outside a south London school. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | DR Congo tanker fire 'kills 220' At least 220 people are killed after an oil tanker explodes and sets fire to a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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| Petraeus calls for Afghan unity The new US commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, demands a united effort to tackle the nine-year conflict. | |
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| Buffett gives charities $1.93bn The billionaire investor Warren Buffett donates shares worth $1.93bn to five charitable foundations. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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| DR Congo tanker fire 'kills 220' At least 220 people are killed after an oil tanker explodes and sets fire to a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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| Guinea vote goes to second round The two frontrunners in Guinea's presidential election will face each other in a second round later this month. | |
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| Former SA police chief convicted South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi is found guilty of corruption in one of the defining trials of the post-apartheid era. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | US tightens military media rules US Defense Secretary Robert Gates orders a tightening of the rules covering the US military's dealings with the media. |
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| Biden in Iraq amid poll deadlock US Vice-President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders, amid deadlock over the formation of a government. | |
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| Argentina thrashed by ruthless Germany Miroslav Klose scores twice to move second on the all-time World Cup goalscoring list as ruthless Germany thrash Diego Maradona's Argentina 4-0 in their quarter-final in Cape Town. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Kyrgyzstan swears in new leader Rosa Otunbayeva is sworn in as the first female president of Kyrgyzstan weeks after deadly ethnic riots in the south. |
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| Korea airport bus crash kills 12 A bus falls from a bridge near the main international airport serving South Korea's capital Seoul, killing 12 passengers. | |
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| China 'jails third Tibet brother' A Tibetan environmentalist becomes the third brother in his family to be jailed by a Chinese court, his lawyer says. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Clinton oversees US-Poland deal US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton oversees the signing in Poland of a key missile base agreement. |
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| Munich Olympics massacre man dies The Palestinian mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that killed 11 Israeli athletes, Mohammed Oudeh, dies. | |
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| Argentina thrashed by ruthless Germany Miroslav Klose scores twice to move second on the all-time World Cup goalscoring list as ruthless Germany thrash Diego Maradona's Argentina 4-0 in their quarter-final in Cape Town. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Biden in Iraq amid poll deadlock US Vice-President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders, amid deadlock over the formation of a government. |
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| Thousands on Israel soldier march Twenty thousand people join a march through Israel calling for the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit, organisers say. | |
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| Munich Olympics massacre man dies The Palestinian mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that killed 11 Israeli athletes, Mohammed Oudeh, dies. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Petraeus calls for Afghan unity The new US commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, demands a united effort to tackle the nine-year conflict. |
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| India interest rates raised again The Reserve Bank of India raises key interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in an attempt to curb inflation. | |
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| Arms trade in Nepal tourist area The central Kathmandu tourist district of Thamel becomes a centre for illegal trade in guns and small arms, police say. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Man hunted over double shooting Police search for the ex-boyfriend of a woman after she is shot and her new partner killed in a double shooting in Gateshead. |
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| Briton in Afghan jail term appeal An ex-army officer jailed for two years in Afghanistan on bribery charges is appealing against his sentence. | |
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| Pair held over boy's stab death Two teenagers are still being questioned by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a boy outside a south London school. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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| Man hunted over double shooting Police search for the ex-boyfriend of a woman after she is shot and her new partner killed in a double shooting in Gateshead. |
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| Pair held over boy's stab death Two teenagers are still being questioned by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a boy outside a south London school. | |
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| New police shirts 'waste of cash' West Midlands Police force is criticised for wasting £100,000 to change the colour of staff uniform shirts from white to black or blue. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Three questioned after bar murder Three men are being questioned by police about the murder of a man near Limavady in the early hours of Saturday. |
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| Name of murder victim is released A murder inquiry is launched into the death of a man in his 50s, a day after his body was discovered in west Belfast. | |
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| Eight rescued from sinking boat Eight people are rescued from a sinking leisure motor boat near Blackhead Lighthouse on the northern shores of Belfast Lough. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Man held after teenage girl raped A 22-year-old man is arrested in connection with an attack on a teenager as she walked her dog in Edinburgh. |
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| Hero's welcome for bomb soldier About 200 residents of a Lanarkshire village greet a soldier as he returns home after being badly injured in Afghanistan. | |
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| Murray hurt by Wimbledon defeat Andy Murray says defeat at Wimbledon hurts more than any other, but could not have done more to beat Rafael Nadal in their semi-final. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | £2m aid for broadband 'notspots' Broadband will be brought to some of Wales' so-called rural "notspots" with the help of a £2m support scheme. |
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| Towns hold forces day celebration Caernarfon and Aberystwyth hold Armed Forces Day events, a week after Cardiff hosted the second UK national celebration. | |
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| Robbers threaten pizza shop staff Police hunt two men who robbed a pizza store during the early hours after threatening four members of staff. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Buffett gives charities $1.93bn The billionaire investor Warren Buffett donates shares worth $1.93bn to five charitable foundations. |
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| MPs want new ban on ticket touts A number of MPs are calling for the prohibition of ticket-touting at major sporting events to be widened. | |
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| Iceland holds talks over Icesave Officials from Iceland, the Netherlands and the UK hold talks over the settlement of a £2.3bn banking dispute. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Dame Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75 Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge has died at the age of 75 after a short illness, her agent says. |
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| Sunshine evicted from Big Brother Medical student Sunshine becomes the third person to be evicted from the Big Brother house, after losing the public vote. | |
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| Ex-Doctor Who cast as drug lord Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston has been cast as a drug lord in a new BBC thriller to screen next year. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Russian spaceship 'under control' Russia says its Progress spaceship is under control after missing the International Space Station and will try to dock again on Sunday. |
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| Scientists peer inside a python Scientists employ the latest imaging techniques to look inside a python that had just swallowed a rat whole. | |
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| Grandmothers link orcas to humans Scientists discover a common trait in humans and whales that explains why both groups have grandmothers. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Apple admits iPhone signal fault Apple says a significant fault on its new iPhone 4 is causing it to incorrectly display the phone's signal. |
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| Google moves into travel market Google pays $700m for travel technology firm that provides flight price and travel data across the globe. | |
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| Mobile ads "poor" says Three boss The head of mobile phone company Three says the industry needs to improve its marketing, especially for broadband. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Life expectancy gap 'is widening' The gap between average life expectancy and that of the poorest in England is widening, a report says. |
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| Homeowners 'ignorant on asbestos' Almost two-thirds of people would not be confident of identifying asbestos in their home, a survey suggests. | |
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| Genes predict living beyond 100 Scientists in the US have developed way of predicting how likely a person is to live beyond the age of 100. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Schools 'break law' on assistants Head teachers could be breaking the law by asking support staff to teach lessons, the National Union of Teachers says. |
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| Pair held over boy's stab death Two teenagers are still being questioned by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a boy outside a south London school. | |
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| Head of exams body Ofqual resigns Kathleen Tattersall, the head of the exams watchdog Ofqual, resigns citing the government's "fresh perspective" in education. | |
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| 1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf shoots down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for a fighter plane. | |||
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| 1987: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court. | |||
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| 1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain A charter flight from Manchester has gone missing with 105 holiday-makers on board. | |||
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