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The US justice department agrees a multimillion-dollar settlement with a man named in the 2001 anthrax attack probe.
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Scientists identify a 365-million-year-old fossil that helps explain the sequence of events that took early creatures onto land.
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Former donor Sir Gerry Robinson tells BBC News the Labour Party is doomed under Gordon Brown’s leadership.
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The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, ordains his wife at Manchester Cathedral.
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A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs and knives under his bed is convicted of three terrorism offences.
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Pakistan’s main stock index bolts ahead after the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) stepped in to stem declines.
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The US jury considering its verdict in the double murder trial of Briton Neil Entwistle is sent home for the night.
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The number of members of the global US dollar millionaires ‘club grew in 2007, a wealth report says.
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The prime minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi, avoids having to face a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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A senior FBI officer says more arrests will be made as part of its probe into mortgage fraud and the credit crunch.
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Opec president Chakib Khelil rebuffs calls to increase supply, and says other factors are affecting price.
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Officials from more than 40 countries meet in Berlin and pledge $242m for the Palestinian police and justice system.
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A free and simple piece of software is helping manage the spread of disease in developing countries.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor gives evidence in a case to close a pro-Kurdish political party allegedly linked to PKK rebels.
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Bill Clinton’s spokesman says the former US president is committed to helping Barack Obama win the US presidential election.
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The Conservatives pledge to save thousands of lives by setting tough targets for survival rates for major diseases.
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US officials confirm Thursday is the target date for Pyongyang to deliver an overdue declaration of its nuclear activities.
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The global whaling body opens the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban.
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A British soldier has been killed in fighting with the Taleban in southern Afghanistan, the MoD says.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

Centuries of knowledge needed to survive in the world’s drylands are being sacrificed in the name of progress.
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Plans to move all UK radio stations to digital broadcasts are put forward in a report by a government working group.
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Being exposed to cat allergens early in life may spark eczema – if you carry a key gene fault, say scientists.
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Divers found bodies but no survivors as they began searching a capsized ferry in the Philippines, navy personnel say.
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A man is remanded in custody accused of murdering his elderly mother who was found in Dorset woodland.
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Environmentalists complain that dissent is being suppressed as the International Whaling Commission gathers.
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Most NHS trusts in England refuse to fund the recommended three cycles of IVF for infertile couples, figures show.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK’s Carbon Trust.
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A man is sentenced to 116 days in jail by a US court for threatening to blow up an airliner bound for Dublin.
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Chicago residents share tips about how to avoid coming under attack by dive-bombing blackbirds.
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EU agriculture ministers approve stricter controls on the use of pesticides, after two years of debate.
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Big increases in gas and electricity bills are likely this year, leading energy suppliers have confirmed.
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Iron Man and the latest Indiana Jones film has helped boost Paramount Pictures US tickets sales to $1bn.
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Sunbathing tree frogs may hold the key to understanding how a deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world.
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An Iranian opposition organisation is pushing to be legalised across the EU after being taken off the UK’s list of alleged terrorist groups.
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The MTV Video Music Awards will return to Los Angeles this year after a 10-year absence from the US city.
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Zimbabwe’s president vows to press on with a run-off presidential poll despite the opposition’s withdrawal.
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Reactions from around Zimbabwe on the opposition’s decision to pull out of Friday’s presidential run-off.
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Boy George’s US summer tour is in doubt after authorities refuse him a visa, citing looming legal issues overseas.
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The global whaling body opens the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban.
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Germany says it will send an extra 1,000 soldiers to northern Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission.
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Insurgents in western Afghanistan shoot dead a policewoman for the first time, police say.
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Amy Winehouse begins rehearsals despite being treated in hospital for traces of lung disease emphysema.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

In a landmark ruling, a US court overturns the designation of a Guantanamo inmate as an ”enemy combatant”.
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Ukraine’s authorities are investigating allegations that the prime minister’s daughter was assaulted by police.
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UK youngsters can illegally buy violent video games through online auction sites, a trading standards group says.
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British energy firm BG Group makes a $13.15bn hostile bid for Australian power company Origin Energy.
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About 3,000 tickets are still unsold for this year’s Glastonbury Festival, just one day before the gates open.
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A bomb explodes at a local council office in Baghdad, killing 10 people, including four American nationals.
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Cameroon and Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o says he is in no rush to make a decision over his future.
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India’s central bank announces an unexpected rise of half a percentage point in its prime lending rate in an attempt to control inflation.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

The future of Zimbabwe as a cricketing nation will be discussed by the International Cricket Council.
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The corporation’s plans to create on-demand, regional, video news comes under scrutiny by the regulator Ofcom.
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A rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, given to the author’s friend, has sold for a record

Pop band McFly are to give away their new album Radio:ACTIVE with the Mail on Sunday newspaper next month.
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Pirates capture a German family off the coast of Yemen and take them to the breakaway republic of Somaliland, officials say.
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Conservation groups and a top fisheries scientist accuse Japan of damaging the fisheries interests of poorer countries.
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One person dies after police fires on a group of protesters in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Texan private equity firm Lone Star is cleared of rigging shares by a South Korean appeals court.
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There is no evidence that 17 Massachusetts schoolgirls became pregnant because of a ”pregnancy pact”, the town’s mayor says.
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Confusion mars the French president’s departure from Israel as a policeman guarding the airport shoots himself dead.
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In a landmark ruling, a US court overturns the designation of a Guantanamo inmate as an ”enemy combatant”.
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An Italian-born businessman invented Vatican connections as part of a property fraud, New York authorities allege.
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The Pakistani government says it will challenge a court decision barring former PM Nawaz Sharif from contesting elections.
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A Japanese warship arrives in southern China for a five-day port call, the first such visit since World War II.
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Plans for new laws on anonymous court witnesses could be announced within days, the government says.
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Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan took more than $100m from the opium trade in 2007, a top UN official tells the BBC.
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The public needs to be given more information about the dangers of flooding if dams fail, a government review says.
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The Russian chairman of BP’s joint venture, TNK-BP, tells the BBC the firm’s chief executive should quit.
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Pirates capture a German family off the coast of Yemen and take them to the breakaway republic of Somaliland, officials says.
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Robin Gibb says he and brother Barry may return as The Bee Gees, five years after their brother Maurice died.
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The UN urges Senegal to deal with lead poisoning that has affected hundreds of battery recyclers in the capital, Dakar.
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Former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie brands accusations of rape as ”totally untrue”, and says he fears a ”trial by media”.
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Some general anaesthetics could actually worsen the pain following surgery, say scientists.
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Israel says a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern town of Sderot is a ”gross violation” of a six-day-old truce.
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Visa, the world’s largest credit card network, is paying Facebook $2m to advertise its small business service.
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At least two militants are killed by security forces in Swat district in north-west Pakistan, officials say, despite a ceasefire.
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An investigation is launched into the whereabouts of millions of dollars meant to improve safety in Nigeria’s airspace.
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CCTV cameras which use artificial intelligence software are being developed so they can ”hear” sounds, researchers reveal.
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A US team visits India’s remote north-east to search for the remains of US pilots who crashed during WWII.
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Fashion firm Zara forces a supplier to shut a factory after the BBC hears allegations of harsh treatment there.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

Five Bolivian governors reject President Evo Morales’s plans for an August recall referendum and urge an general election. instead.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

A top aide to John McCain apologises for saying a terror attack on US soil would help his presidential campaign.
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A British tourist dies of suspected food poisoning at a luxury hotel at Lake Garda in northern Italy.
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High-speed rail would benefit the UK more than plans to expand Heathrow airport, says the RMT rail workers’ union.
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Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for playing comic character Borat, is invited to join The Academy of Motion Pictures.
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Iran condemns as illegal the latest raft of European Union sanctions over its uranium enrichment programme.
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Premature babies undergoing medical procedures may be in pain even if there is no obvious sign, a study suggests.
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A rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, given to the author’s friend, has sold for a record

US consumer confidence in June fell to its lowest level since February 1992, a survey suggests.
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Niger’s MPs lift the immunity of ex-Prime Minister Hama Amadou so that he can be prosecuted for alleged corruption.
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Finnish phone giant Nokia is paying

Arsenal’s Adebayor mobbed during Togo homecoming
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A top Greek tycoon, who was kidnapped two weeks ago, is freed unharmed after his family paid a ransom.
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