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| Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 0:00 GMT 05:00 +05:00:Asia/Calcutta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Afghan rivals row over poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. |
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| Castro's sister 'spied for CIA' A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, admits spying for the CIA for three years in the 1960s | |
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| Call to act on maternal mortality Health ministers from around the world say swift action must be taken to reduce global maternal mortality rates. | |
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| German on trial for Muslim murder The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman killed in a German court tells how she was stabbed in front of him. | |
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| Lost pilots 'were using laptops' Two US pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles tell investigators they were using their personal laptops. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Zimbabwe talks end 'without deal' Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai ends talks on power-sharing with President Robert Mugabe with no agreement, his spokesman says. |
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| US bans senior Kenyan official The US imposes a travel ban on a Kenyan official, amid concerns over a failure to look into post-election violence. | |
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| Somali threat sparks Uganda alert All Somalis entering Uganda will be registered after militants threatened Kampala for sending peacekeepers to Somalia. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama vows no rush on Afghanistan US President Barack Obama says he will not be rushed as he considers whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan. |
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| Castro's sister 'spied for CIA' A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, admits spying for the CIA for three years in the 1960s | |
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| Polanski victim seeks dismissal The victim of the sexual assault committed by Roman Polanski calls for charges against the director to be dismissed. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | S Korea clone scientist convicted A South Korean court convicts disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk of embezzlement over his stem cell research. |
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| Japan pop star trial draws crowd Thousands of people in Tokyo queue for 20 seats in a courtroom's public gallery to see the trial of a Japanese pop star. | |
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| Police reward in 'vampire' murder Australian police offer a reward of Aus$1m for a man suspected of ordering the killing of a self-proclaimed vampire. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Karadzic boycotts start of trial Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic fails to appear for the opening of his trial on genocide and war crimes charges. |
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| Berlusconi faces early tax trial Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is to go back on trial for tax fraud now that his immunity from prosecution has been lifted. | |
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| Polanski victim seeks dismissal The victim of the sexual assault committed by Roman Polanski calls for charges against the director to be dismissed. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150 Iraqi officials raise the death toll from Sunday's bombing in Baghdad to 155 and with another 500 people wounded. |
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| Pakistan 'holds elite Iran force' Eleven Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been arrested in Pakistan for illegally entering the country, Pakistani police say. | |
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| Saudi sex TV producer spared lash The Saudi king waives a sentence of 60 lashes for a female TV journalist who worked on a series about extra-marital sex. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Afghan crashes kill 14 Americans At least 14 Americans are killed and more injured in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Afghan rivals row over poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. | |
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| Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses Sri Lanka says it will appoint a committee to probe US claims of human rights abuses during the final phase of its civil war. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Pilot criticised over Puma crash A low-flying RAF pilot who crashed killing himself and two others should not have been trying the manoeuvre, a coroner rules. |
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| Ministers retreat on territorials Ministers scale back planned cuts to the training of the Territorial Army after fierce criticism from the opposition. | |
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| Honour case mother denies killing The mother of an alleged "honour killing" victim denies that it was she who killed her daughter. | |
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| UK EDUCATION | |
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 | Career advice for seven-year-olds Children as young as seven are to be offered careers advice under a government pilot in seven areas of England. |
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| Darwin teaching 'divides opinion' Millions of adults across the world think evolutionary theories should be taught alongside creationism in schools, a survey suggests. | |
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| Loans firm tightens debt recovery The Student Loans Company tightens its debt recovery procedures as it writes off £29m | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. |
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| Death crash police officer jailed A former police officer who killed a woman while speeding in a patrol car on a personal errand is jailed for six-and-a-half years. | |
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| Farm opens after E. coli outbreak A petting farm at the centre of an E. coli outbreak in Surrey reopens, but people will have no contact with animals. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Caterpillar axing 2,500 workers Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, says it will permanently cut 2,500 jobs. |
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| Murdoch wins Berlusconi ad spat Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset is being anti-competitive against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, a Milan court rules. | |
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| Investors save Chicago newspapers The firm which owns the Chicago Sun-Times - which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year - is rescued by a local businessman. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Madonna opens new Malawi school Pop star Madonna has marked the start of construction at the girls school she is building in Malawi. |
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| Polanski victim seeks dismissal The victim of the sexual assault committed by Roman Polanski calls for charges against the director to be dismissed. | |
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| Leona suspect 'not fit for court' A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis at a book signing is not fit to attend court, a judge is told. | |
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| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | |
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 | Particle beams injected into LHC Particle beams have been injected into the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since September 2008. |
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| 'Shuttle replacement' set to fly A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over its future. | |
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| Paint 'to thwart chemical attack' Scientists plan to develop a paint coating for military vehicles which would soak up chemical agents and then decontaminate itself. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Net set for 'language shake-up' The net is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented forty years ago", the regulator Icann says. |
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| End of an era for early websites Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities, a service which gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page. | |
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| Mobile net 'heading for data jam' The number of people using their mobile phone to get online could soon outstrip the capacity of networks, experts warn. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Antibody 'fixes internal bleeds' US scientists say they have discovered an antibody that could minimise the damage caused by major traumas. |
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| Antidepressants 'work instantly' Scientists say they have discovered that antidepressants get to work immediately to lift mood, contrary to current belief. | |
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| Call to act on maternal mortality Health ministers from around the world say swift action must be taken to reduce global maternal mortality rates. | |
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| 1994: Israel and Jordan make peace At a ceremony in the desert witnessed by US President Clinton, Jordan and Israel sign a peace agreement ending 46 years of war. | |||
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| 1979: South Korean President killed The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, is "accidentally" shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu. | |||
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| 1956: Fighting spreads in Hungary revolution The Hungarian Prime Minister, Imre Nagy, appeals for calm as demonstrators battle with Soviet troops. | |||
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Beckham deal agreed, claim Milan David Beckham will definitely rejoin AC Milan on loan in January, according to the Italian club's chief executive Adriano Galliani. |
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| Robinho will not force Barca move Manchester City forward Robinho is pleased about being linked with a move to Barcelona but insists he is not engineering a return to Spain. | |
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| Blackburn trio contract swine flu Three members of Sam Allardyce's Blackburn squad are ill with swine flu ahead of Tuesday's Carling Cup tie against Peterborough. | |
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| Injury-hit England make changes England call up veteran Bath prop David Barnes and uncapped forwards Richard Blaze and Courtney Lawes as part of a host of changes for the autumn Tests. | |
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| Spurs aim for new stadium by 2012 Tottenham Hotspur have submitted a planning application for their new 56,000-seat stadium and hope to be playing at the venue by 2012. | |
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| FOOTBALL | |
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| Beckham deal agreed, claim Milan David Beckham will definitely rejoin AC Milan on loan in January, according to the Italian club's chief executive Adriano Galliani. |
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| Robinho will not force Barca move Manchester City forward Robinho is pleased about being linked with a move to Barcelona but insists he is not engineering a return to Spain. | |
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| Postponement angers French clubs Two French clubs hit out at the late decision to call off a match after players were diagnosed with swine flu. | |
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| CRICKET | |
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 | ECB wins overseas player battle New Home Office laws, created after pressure from English cricket chiefs, deal a massive blow to the "Kolpak" players in county cricket. |
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| Australia beat India in thriller Australia survive a stunning assault from India's Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar to win the first one-day international in Vadodara. | |
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| Panesar struggles on Lions debut Northants spinner Monty Panesar struggles on his debut for Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket. | |
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| TENNIS | |
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 | Serena aims for top spot in Doha Serena Williams will hope to regain the number one spot from Dinara Safina at the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships. |
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| Injury hits Soderling London bid Robin Soderling's hopes of reaching the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals are dealt a blow as injury forces him out of the Stockholm Open. | |
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| Jankovic sent crashing in Moscow Defending champion Jelena Jankovic is beaten 6-4 6-3 by Russian Alisa Kleybanova in the quarter-finals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. | |
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| MOTORSPORT | |
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 | Deadline passes for Donington GP The future of the British Grand Prix is in doubt after a deadline passed for the company redeveloping Donington Park to prove it had funding. |
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| Cool Rossi crowned world champion Valentino Rossi wins his seventh world MotoGP crown after finishing third in the rain-delayed Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang. | |
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| Loeb secures sixth title in a row France's Sebastien Loeb claims a record sixth successive world rally title with victory at the Rally GB. | |
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