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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Death takes UK Afghan toll to 200 A British soldier dies from wounds suffered in Afghanistan, taking the number of UK troops killed since 2001 to 200. |
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| Burma to free Suu Kyi US 'guest' Burma is to deport the US man whose uninvited visit to opposition leader Suu Kyi led to her trial, a US senator says. | |
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| Dozens die in Kuwait wedding fire Some 41 women and children are killed by a fire in a tent at a wedding ceremony in Kuwait, officials say. | |
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| Row over US Bollywood 'detention' Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan expresses anger at his treatment at a US airport but US customs deny he was detained. | |
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| 'Ransom demand' for missing ship Finnish police say a ransom demand has been made for a missing Russian-manned cargo vessel, the Arctic Sea. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Court gives bail to Congo's Bemba The war crimes court orders the release of DR Congo's former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba ahead of his war crimes trial. |
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| 'Ransom demand' for missing ship Finnish police say a ransom demand has been made for a missing Russian-manned cargo vessel, the Arctic Sea. | |
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| School pupil, 90, dies in Kenya Kimani Nganga Maruge, who held the world record for being the oldest person to start primary school, dies in Kenya. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Burma to free Suu Kyi US 'guest' Burma is to deport the US man whose uninvited visit to opposition leader Suu Kyi led to her trial, a US senator says. |
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| Mexico prison riot leaves 19 dead At least 19 inmates die and more than 20 are injured in a riot in a prison in the northern Mexican state of Durango. | |
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| Row over US Bollywood 'detention' Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan expresses anger at his treatment at a US airport but US customs deny he was detained. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Burma to free Suu Kyi US 'guest' Burma is to deport the US man whose uninvited visit to opposition leader Suu Kyi led to her trial, a US senator says. |
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| Taiwan leader in typhoon apology Taiwan's president apologises for the slow official response to Typhoon Morakot which has killed at least 120 people. | |
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| Japanese ex-PMs visit war shrine Two Japanese former prime ministers visit a controversial World War II shrine, as the current PM stays away. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | 'Ransom demand' for missing ship Finnish police say a ransom demand has been made for a missing Russian-manned cargo vessel, the Arctic Sea. |
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| Gang kills seven in Russian sauna Russian police hunt gunmen who killed seven women at a sauna and four policemen in the southern region of Dagestan. | |
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| French minister urges burka ban A ban on the burka in France would help stem the spread of the "cancer" of radical Islam, a female Muslim minister says. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Hamas says Gaza now under control Hamas says that it has restored order in southern Gaza after a bloody crackdown on a radical Islamist group. |
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| Dozens die in Kuwait wedding fire Some 41 women and children are killed by a fire in a tent at a wedding ceremony in Kuwait, officials say. | |
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| Iran appoints new judiciary head Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appoints the cleric Sadeq Larijani to be the new head of the judiciary. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Karzai condemns Kabul Nato blast Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemns a suicide bombing outside Nato's headquarters in Kabul, which killed seven people. |
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| Row over US Bollywood 'detention' Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan expresses anger at his treatment at a US airport but US customs deny he was detained. | |
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| Death takes UK Afghan toll to 200 A British soldier dies from wounds suffered in Afghanistan, taking the number of UK troops killed since 2001 to 200. | |
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| UK | |
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| Death takes UK Afghan toll to 200 A British soldier dies from wounds suffered in Afghanistan, taking the number of UK troops killed since 2001 to 200. |
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| Bankers defend culture of bonuses The banking industry hits back at calls from the Tory party to clamp down further on big bonuses. | |
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| New theory over £40m jewel raid Police investigating a robbery at a London jewellery shop now believe the raid was planned to take place two days earlier. | |
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| UK EDUCATION | |
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 | Tories plan league tables review Tory plans could see schools in England earning higher league table places by getting more students through "harder" exams like maths. |
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| Parent debt 'damaging education' Parents who do not settle school bills for care of their children out of hours are forcing some schools into cuts, head teachers warn. | |
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| 'No benefit' from tuition fees Students are not benefiting from the extra money brought in by tuition fees, according to a leading academic. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | New theory over £40m jewel raid Police investigating a robbery at a London jewellery shop now believe the raid was planned to take place two days earlier. |
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| Abduction fear for missing walker The family of a British man who disappeared while walking the Lycian Way in Turkey say they fear he may have been abducted. | |
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| Michael 'sober' at crash arrest Singer George Michael says he was "stone cold sober" when he was arrested after a car crash in Berkshire. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Nigeria sacks heads of five banks The Nigerian central bank has injected 400bn naira ($2.6bn; £1.6bn) into five banks and sacked their managers. |
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| Biggest US bank failure this year Colonial BancGroup becomes the biggest US bank to collapse this year and its assets are sold to rival BB&T, the regulator says. | |
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| Porsche shares up on Qatar deal Shares in Porsche rose after the Gulf state of Qatar agreed to take a stake in the the German carmaker. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | U2 brand green criticism 'unfair' The Edge defends the size and cost of their 360 Degrees world tour, as the band play to a record 88,000 people at Wembley Stadium. |
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| Michael 'sober' at crash arrest Singer George Michael says he was "stone cold sober" when he was arrested after a car crash in Berkshire. | |
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| Musicians pay tribute to Les Paul The Edge and Slash are among the guitarists paying tribute to guitar pioneer Les Paul, who has died aged 94. | |
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| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | |
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 | US probe captures Saturn equinox Raw images of the moment Saturn reached its equinox have been beamed back to Earth by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft. |
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| Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast' One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than 10 years ago, research seen by the BBC suggests. | |
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| Facial expressions 'not global' A new study suggests that people from different cultures might read facial expressions differently. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Alarm sounded over game futures Video game makers are under threat from spiralling licence costs and competition among consoles, warns analyst. |
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| Sony to support open ebook format Sony is dropping its own-brand standard for digital books in favour of an open format. | |
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| Microsoft backs long life for IE6 The venerable IE6 browser will be supported until 2014, despite a campaign to kill it, says Microsoft. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Many women 'not on safest pill' Many women are not taking the safest brand of the pill, say researchers who found variation in the risk of blood clot. |
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| Drug 'attacks cancer stem cells' A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow has been discovered by scientists. | |
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| Australian man wins right to die In a precedent-setting ruling, an Australian court tells a quadriplegic man who wants to die he can have his care stopped. | |
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| 1945: Allied nations celebrate VJ Day Allied nations across the globe rejoice on Victory in Japan day that marks the end of World War II. | |||
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| 1998: Dozens die in Omagh bombing At least 27 people are feared dead after a massive car bomb in the town of Omagh in Northern Ireland. | |||
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| 1965: Los Angeles riot toll keeps rising At least 28 people die and hundreds are injured after a weekend of rioting in Los Angeles. | |||
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Everton 1-6 Arsenal Arsenal produce a scintillating opening-day display to hammer a woefully out-of-sorts Everton. |
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| Woods in charge for USPGA finale Tiger Woods will attempt to win his 15th straight major when leading going into the final round when the USPGA reaches its conclusion on Sunday. | |
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| Murray overtakes Nadal with win Andy Murray defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the Montreal Masters final and move up to second in the world rankings. | |
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| Blackburn 0-2 Manchester City Emmanuel Adebayor strikes after only three minutes of his debut to help Manchester City make a winning start to the new Premier League season. | |
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| Chelsea 2-1 Hull Chelsea striker Didier Drogba scores an injury-time winner to give his side victory against a stubborn Hull side. | |
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| FOOTBALL | |
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| Everton 1-6 Arsenal Arsenal produce a scintillating opening-day display to hammer a woefully out-of-sorts Everton. |
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| Blackburn 0-2 Manchester City Emmanuel Adebayor strikes after only three minutes of his debut to help Manchester City make a winning start to the new Premier League season. | |
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| Chelsea 2-1 Hull Chelsea striker Didier Drogba scores an injury-time winner to give his side victory against a stubborn Hull side. | |
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| CRICKET | |
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 | Uncapped Trott to replace Bopara England are set to take a major gamble in the crucial fifth Ashes Test by replacing Ravi Bopara with the uncapped Jonathan Trott, BBC Sport understands. |
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| Live score - England Lions v Australia Australia warm-up for the final Ashes Test with a two-day game against England Lions at Canterbury. | |
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| Goodwin guides Sussex into final Sussex defeat Northants by seven wickets in the Twenty20 Cup semi-finals at Edgbaston. | |
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| TENNIS | |
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 | Murray overtakes Nadal with win Andy Murray defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the Montreal Masters final and move up to second in the world rankings. |
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| Safina destroys Pennetta in semi World number one Dinara Safina thrashes Flavia Pennetta to reach the Cincinnati final. | |
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| Federer and Nadal suffer defeats Rafael Nadal loses to Juan Martin Del Potro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga shocks Roger Federer as the world's top two players exit the Montreal Masters. | |
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| MOTORSPORT | |
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 | Rossi takes pole for Czech MotoGP World championship leader Valentino Rossi takes pole for Sunday's Czech MotoGP at Brno. |
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| Formula 1 news has moved >>>> Click the link above to reach BBC Sport's brand new Formula 1 website for 2009. | |
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| Schumacher sad at F1 abandonment Michael Schumacher speaks of his regret at having to scrap his proposed Formula 1 comeback. | |
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