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Bathing water at the UK’s beaches is more polluted since last year’s stormy summer, a study shows.
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Armed police target two men in an operation linked to an explosion in an Exeter restaurant.
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Future versions of the OLPC laptop will be a dual-screen, e-book device that will cost just $75.
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A Canadian research expedition finds dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap.
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Seven people are killed and 25 injured after a bus carrying Moroccan migrants crashes in central France.
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Yahoo postpones its annual meeting after investor Carl Icahn threatened to launch a battle to oust the board.
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Texan officials to appeal against a court ruling that they had no right to seize 463 children from a polygamist sect last month.
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Australia’s first woman bishop, Kay Goldsworthy, is consecrated in Perth, amid lingering controversy.
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First-born babies may be programmed to have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, research suggests.
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Dinosaur footprints made millions of years ago in what is now Yemen are the first found in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Adjusting meal times can help international air travellers recover from jet lag, a study suggests.
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Ross Taylor hits an unbeaten 67 as New Zealand make 202-4 on a shortened first day of the second Test at Old Trafford.
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Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia have been selling arms to insurgents, a United Nations report says.
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The prime minister discusses relations between China and the people of Tibet at a meeting with the Dalai Lama.
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Oil prices are well off their $135 peak after investors cash in following five days of hefty price rises.
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Gordon Brown says he can steer Britain through ”difficult” times amid backbench disquiet over his leadership.
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Police officers in England and Wales vote by a big majority to lobby the government for the right to strike.
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At least five people have been wounded in a roadside bomb attack in north-western Pakistan, police say.
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Steelmaker Arcelor Mittal reveals plans to raise $3bn by selling bonds, which will be used to reduce its debt.
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A male orangutan escapes from his enclosure at Los Angeles Zoo after making a hole in the fence, but is quickly sedated.
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The Nationalist Party’s Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as Taiwan’s new president for a four-year term.
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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not producing ‘green’ enough consoles, says Greenpeace.
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Inside the company that helps secure the internet
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Tropical storms will become less frequent as the world warms, a new US study suggests.
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A fragment of DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger is put into a mouse to study how the genetic material works.
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Ethiopia’s ruling party wins all but a handful of local council seats, including the capital, after an opposition boycott.
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Napster launches the world’s largest online music store without digital rights management.
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Too many women miss out on hormone replacement therapy because of ”overhyped” safety concerns, say experts.
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Prison officers say they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights over a ban on strike action.
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Lawyers are expected to present their opening arguments later in the child pornography trial involving R&B star R Kelly.
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South African ministers say they will protect foreigners threatened by attacks that have left at least 23 dead.
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Russian security services search the Moscow HQ of oil giant BP – the second time the firm has been targeted.
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The EU announces plans to reform its hugely expensive rural payments system, the Common Agricultural Policy.
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A man shoots dead eight people, including five children, in a gun rampage near the Philippines capital, Manila.
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The UK is ”more exposed” to food price rises than its peers, adding to recessionary fears, a report suggests.
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The Egyptian president meets Israel’s defence minister amid Egyptian efforts to broker a truce in Gaza with Hamas.
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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not producing ‘green’ enough consoles, says Greenpeace.
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Actor Kiefer Sutherland is granted a divorce from estranged wife Elizabeth Kelly Winn.
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Poisonous illegal alcohol has killed at least 87 people in two southern Indian states since the weekend, police say.
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A German court jails a Muslim of Afghan origin for three and a half years for stabbing a Jewish rabbi in the street.
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A coroner rules that children’s TV presenter Mark Speight’s death was suicide.
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Premier League footballer Joey Barton is jailed after admitting committing assault and affray in Liverpool.
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Sweden’s song contest entry by Charlotte Perrelli emerges as the favourite to triumph in a Europe-wide BBC vote.
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GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine for the deadly H5N1 bird flu wins approval from the European Medicines Agency.
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Vulcan, the world’s most powerful laser, heats matter to a truly sweltering 10 million Celsius.
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Movie star Christian Bale has signed up to make three new Terminator films, their producers reveal.
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US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumour, doctors in Massachusetts say.
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Taiwanese prosecutors launch a corruption investigation into ex-President Chen Shui-bian, just after he leaves office.
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Plans for a centralised database of all e-mail and phone calls in the UK are criticised by the IT industry.
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Record numbers of people are leaving the UK to live abroad, but more are arriving, according to the latest figures.
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David Bowie rejects claims he gave permission for his songs to be used in a Man Who Fell To Earth ballet.
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Eleven Iraqi police recruits are shot dead near Mosul as US and Iraqi forces try to crack down on al-Qaeda.
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Hundreds of Algerian police officers head to a southern town after days of clashes between Berbers and Arabs.
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A top commander in Colombia’s Farc urges other rebels to follow her example and surrender.
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Soviet war hero Arnold Meri is tried in his native Estonia for ”genocide” over deportations to Siberia in 1949.
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Dentists have warned the current popularity of fruit smoothies could lead to widespread tooth damage.
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One in four older people are so worried about their future that they are making themselves ill, a survey suggests.
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A German court jails a Muslim of Afghan origin for three and a half years for stabbing a Jewish rabbi in the street.
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Police investigate the death of a hospital patient whose feeding tube was wrongly inserted into her lung.
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Arab mediators extend a deadline for agreement on two Qatari proposals to end the Lebanese crisis.
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MPs are debating whether to reduce the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or less.
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Carbon nanotubes could trigger diseases similar to those caused by asbestos, a study suggests.
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Women who are stressed in pregnancy may raise the risk of their child developing asthma or other allergies, research suggests.
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The death toll in clashes during village council polls in India’s West Bengal state has risen to 20, officials say.
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Russell T Davies is to step down as executive producer of the popular series, the BBC announces.
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Police in Newcastle make several arrests after a 16-year-old girl is hit and killed by a marked patrol car.
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The government survives two big challenges to plans to update the law on embryo research for the first time since 1990.
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The Bank of Japan votes unanimously to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.5%, as widely expected.
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Age of Conan is a real competitor to World of Warcraft
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Three people are killed and nine wounded in a blast on a minibus in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Climate change is ”amplifying” the threats facing the world’s bird species, a key study concludes.
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US President George W Bush apologises over the shooting of a Koran by a US soldier, the White House confirms.
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A man accused of assisting the 7 July suicide bombers has admitted undergoing training for jihad in Afghanistan.
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Barack Obama hopes to move towards clinching the US Democratic nomination as the latest primary polls are held.
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The EU announces plans to reform its hugely expensive rural payments system, the Common Agricultural Policy.
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Energy supplies in the Chinese region hit by the earthquake are returning to normal, a key oil firm says.
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Four Palestinians, one a boy of 13, are killed in separate Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say.
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A Eurovision-style song contest could be held in North Africa and the Middle East, it is announced.
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Greece orders a recall of all sunflower oil imported since January after finding a tainted batch from Ukraine.
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Diabetic men with trouble keeping an erection could be at increased risk of heart problems, suggests a study.
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The ruler of Kuwait names his nephew, Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah, as prime minister.
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Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga pushes for the release of his supporters arrested for political violence.
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India and Pakistan hold their first peace talks since a new civilian government took power in Islamabad.
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Gwyneth Paltrow was worried she would never make another film after taking time out to have children, she reveals.
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Malaysia’s ex-PM Mahathir Mohamad resigns from the ruling party in protest at its poor election result.
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Members of the Bahai faith say their entire leadership in Iran have been arrested by the authorities.
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Burma allows UN helicopters to deliver aid to remote cyclone-hit areas, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon prepares to visit.
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Wales’ health minister says it is right to give free NHS care to failed asylum seekers, but Tories sound a warning.
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Millions of Ethiopian children face acute malnutrition after the failure of rains for crops, says Unicef.
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The prosecutor at the trial of Tariq Aziz calls for a punishment which would ‘ease the hearts of widows’.
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Angelina Jolie says her role in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling allowed her to ”spend time” with her late mother.
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Speaking at the Cannes film festival, movie star Jude Law says he will travel to Afghanistan to show a film about world peace.
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A fragment of DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger is put into a mouse to study how the genetic material works.
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A senior Tamil Tiger commander in Sri Lanka has died of a sudden heart attack, the rebels have announced.
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Opposition claims of a plot to assassinate its leader are untrue, Zimbabwe’s ruling party says.
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The Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall is evacuated as scores of German firefighters tackle a blaze in its roof.
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Agency workers will be given the same employment rights as permanent staff after 12 weeks under new plans.
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Russian security services search the Moscow HQ of oil giant BP – the second time the firm has been targeted.
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