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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Madoff under curfew on $10m bail Alleged hedge fund fraudster Bernard Madoff puts up $10m (£6.4m) bail and is placed under house arrest. |
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| Opec agrees record oil output cut Oil cartel Opec agrees to make its biggest output cut, slashing 2.2 million barrels per day, but prices still fall below $40 a barrel. | |
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| UN chief rules out Somalia force The time is not right to send United Nations peacekeepers to Somalia, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. | |
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| Chrysler plants close for a month The struggling US carmaker Chrysler is to halt all production at its 30 plants for a month starting on Friday. | |
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| Microsoft releases fix for IE A patch to fix the latest hole in Internet Explorer has been rushed out amid fears the flaw could aid fraudsters. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | UN chief rules out Somalia force The time is not right to send United Nations peacekeepers to Somalia, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. |
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| Zimbabwe neighbours' aid campaign Southern African countries launch an urgent campaign to help Zimbabwe fight cholera and overcome its acute food shortage. | |
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| Kenya agrees to election tribunal Kenya's president and prime minister sign a deal that will pave the way for a poll-violence tribunal. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Madoff under curfew on $10m bail Alleged hedge fund fraudster Bernard Madoff puts up $10m (£6.4m) bail and is placed under house arrest. |
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| Blackwater 'could lose Iraq role' Blackwater should be dropped as the main private security contractor for US diplomats in Iraq, the State Department says. | |
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| Chrysler plants close for a month The struggling US carmaker Chrysler is to halt all production at its 30 plants for a month starting on Friday. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Korean adultery actress sentenced Famous South Korean actress Ok So-ri is given a suspended prison sentence of eight months for adultery. |
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| Bogus Qantas engineer is jailed An Australian man, who faked being a Qantas engineer, has been sentenced to at least two years in jail. | |
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| China cull amid bird flu outbreak Authorities have culled more than 370,000 birds in eastern China, as the virus resurfaces in Asia and the Middle East. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | UK work time opt-out under threat Euro MPs have voted in favour of ending the UK's opt-out from laws limiting the working week to 48 hours. |
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| Arrested Mafia leader found dead A suspected Sicilian Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison hours after being arrested, Italian police say. | |
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| Turkish PM scorns Armenia apology Turkey's PM Erdogan denounces an online petition by Turkish writers apologising for the mass deaths of Armenians in 1915. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Blackwater 'could lose Iraq role' Blackwater should be dropped as the main private security contractor for US diplomats in Iraq, the State Department says. |
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| UK troops to leave Iraq 'by July' British troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of July, Gordon Brown says on a visit to Baghdad. | |
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| Bahrain 'foils terrorist attack' Several people allegedly planning bomb attacks during Bahrain's national celebrations have been arrested, officials say. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Zardari rejects Mumbai 'claims' Pakistan's president says there is still no firm evidence to show that gunmen who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan. |
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| India to tighten anti-terror laws The lower house of the Indian parliament approves two new anti-terror bills following last month's Mumbai attacks. | |
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| Bangladesh lifts emergency rule Bangladesh's army-backed interim government lifts a two-year state of emergency ahead of 29 December polls. | |
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| UK NEWS | |
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 | UK troops to leave Iraq 'by July' British troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of July, Gordon Brown says on a visit to Baghdad. |
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| Woolworths to close in January Administrators at Woolworths say the chain's 807 stores will close by 5 January and 27,000 staff are set to lose their jobs. | |
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| Fears raised over new vCJD wave Doctors fear a new wave of the human form of "mad cow disease" is about to hit Britain, BBC Newsnight has learned. | |
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| UK EDUCATION | |
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 | More child services 'inadequate' The number of child protection services in England considered inadequate at keeping children safe doubles in a year. |
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| Boost for speech and language Plans to improve services for children with speech and language problems are welcomed by parents and therapists. | |
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| Jobless offered skills training Millions are to be spent helping people in England who face redundancy find new jobs or develop new skills. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Family death crash father guilty A Lincolnshire father is convicted of causing the deaths of four of his children by dangerous driving. |
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| Jailed fan 'can get free pardon' The government does have the power to pardon jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields, the High Court rules. | |
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| Safety fears mute church concert A Christmas concert at a Dorset church is cancelled with organisers citing the "blame culture" amid fears that someone could sue if injured. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Opec agrees record oil output cut Oil cartel Opec agrees to make its biggest output cut, slashing 2.2 million barrels per day, but prices still fall below $40 a barrel. |
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| Madoff under curfew on $10m bail Alleged hedge fund fraudster Bernard Madoff puts up $10m (£6.4m) bail and is placed under house arrest. | |
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| Chrysler plants close for a month The struggling US carmaker Chrysler is to halt all production at its 30 plants for a month starting on Friday. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Affleck launches DR Congo appeal Singer Mick Jagger and actor Ben Affleck launch a short film to highlight the plight of 250,000 refugees in eastern DR Congo. |
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| Madonna and Guy 'happy' with deal Madonna and Guy Ritchie say they are "happy" with their divorce agreement, but that figures quoted earlier this week were "inaccurate". | |
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| Rapper Akon admits concert charge Hip-hop star Akon has pleaded guilty to harassment after he was accused of throwing a teenage fan off stage at a concert in June last year. | |
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| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | |
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 | Flaw theory over Mars Beagle loss The loss of the UK-led Mars probe Beagle 2 could have been due to a flawed calculation that led to it burning up, says a new report. |
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| Changes 'amplify Arctic warming' Scientists say they now have unambiguous evidence that the warming in the Arctic is accelerating. | |
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| Light on the dark energy mystery Observations of the effect of dark energy on galaxy clusters suggest general relativity is alive and well. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Microsoft releases fix for IE A patch to fix the latest hole in Internet Explorer has been rushed out amid fears the flaw could aid fraudsters. |
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| Yahoo throws down data gauntlet Search giant Yahoo is to drastically reduce the time it stores users' data for in what it describes as an industry benchmark. | |
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| Apple to ditch Macworld gathering Apple's next Macworld gathering will be its last and Steve Jobs will not give the main presentation, the company says. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Obesity 'set before age of five' Childhood obesity is set before the age of five so pre-school initiatives should be launched, ministers will be told. |
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| Women 'may face greater HIV risk' Women having unsafe sex may be more at risk of HIV than thought as tests show it could breach healthy vaginal tissue. | |
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| First US face transplant complete The first almost-total face transplant to be carried out in the US has been completed at a clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
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| 1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes German tanks, aircraft and paratroops cross the Luxembourg and Belgian borders in massive counter-offensive. | |||
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| 2003: Ian Huntley guilty of Soham murders Former school caretaker Ian Huntley is convicted of the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. | |||
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| 1968: Mary Bell found guilty of double killing An 11-year-old girl is sentenced to life in detention at Newcastle Assizes for killing two small boys. | |||
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Stanford reviews series future Sir Allen Stanford is to consider the future of the Super Series but pledges to continue working with the England and Wales Cricket Board. |
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| Hamburg 3-1 Aston Villa Aston Villa will face a group winner in the last 32 of the Uefa Cup after their second-string side is well beaten in Hamburg. | |
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| Portsmouth 3-0 Heerenveen Peter Crouch scores twice as Portsmouth end their Uefa Cup campaign with a comfortable victory over Heerenveen. | |
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| Key shareholder leaving Arsenal Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists a boardroom reshuffle will not alter the club's policy of rejecting external cash injections. | |
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| Allardyce named Blackburn manager Blackburn Rovers appoint Sam Allardyce as their new manager on a three-year contract. | |
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| FOOTBALL | |
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 | Allardyce named Blackburn manager Blackburn Rovers appoint Sam Allardyce as their new manager on a three-year contract. |
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| Key shareholder leaving Arsenal Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists a boardroom reshuffle will not alter the club's policy of rejecting external cash injections. | |
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| Hamburg 3-1 Aston Villa Aston Villa will face a group winner in the last 32 of the Uefa Cup after their second-string side is well beaten in Hamburg. | |
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| CRICKET | |
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| Stanford reviews series future Sir Allen Stanford is to consider the future of the Super Series but pledges to continue working with the England and Wales Cricket Board. |
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| England eyeing changes for Mohali England could recall Stuart Broad and Owais Shah for the second Test against India as they look to level the two-match series. | |
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| Australia recover from poor start Australia finish the opening day of the first Test against South Africa on 341-9 after a dreadful start in Perth. | |
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| TENNIS | |
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 | Davenport out of Australian Open Lindsay Davenport abandons her return to the tour at the Australian Open because she is pregnant with her second child. |
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| Murray ready for Grand Slam glory Andy Murray says that after a successful 2008 he feels closer to breaking his Grand Slam duck. | |
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| Centre Court roof set for trial Wimbledon will host a ticketed event next year in order to test the new retractable roof on Centre Court. | |
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| MOTORSPORT | |
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 | Prodrive signals renewed F1 hopes Prodrive boss David Richards says Formula One's recent attempts to cut costs could open the door for smaller, private teams to return to the grid. |
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| Subaru pull out of world rallying Subaru follow Suzuki by withdrawing from next year's World Rally Championship, blaming the global economic downturn for their decision. | |
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| Medals would help F1 - Ecclestone Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone remains committed to awarding medals rather than points in Grands Prix. | |
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