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Singer Lee Ryan punched a Surrey taxi driver in the head during a row over a traffic accident, a court hears.
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Parents are not being left in the dark about sexual health services available to pupils, professionals insist.
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Disgraced Pakistani scientist AQ Khan denies giving blueprints for advanced nuclear warheads to Swiss smugglers.
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The Football Association asks headhunters to recruit a team to run its bid for the 2018 football World Cup.
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A strike by fuel tanker drivers over pay ends and talks aimed at averting further industrial action resume.
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Cholesterol-lowering statins may help minimise the risk of an emergency Caesarean, researchers suspect.
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Superhero remake The Incredible Hulk makes its debut on the UK and Ireland film chart at number one.
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A man fighting US extradition for allegedly carrying out a ”military computer hack” takes case to House of Lords.
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Pop star Taylor Dayne is told by a US judge she must serve two years’ probation for a reckless driving charge.
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Soprano Deborah Voigt returns to London’s Royal Opera House four years after she was fired for being too fat.
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US software firm Adobe reports a 41% jump in second-quarter profit thanks to international markets.
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Rising food and energy prices could push UK consumer inflation above 4% this year, the Bank of England warns.
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French public sector workers strike in protest at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform plans.
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A deadly mite could threaten Australia’s vital honey bee population, a parliamentary committee warns.
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Security is very tight as the Olympic torch begins its passage through China’s predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
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Israel and Hamas agree a truce starting this Thursday, Palestinian officials tell the BBC after Egyptian-brokered talks.
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The number of refugees worldwide grows to 11.4 million, the UN says, with another 26 million internally displaced.
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Bill Thompson asks if web is changing the way we think
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The policy of denying NHS services to patients who top up their care with private treatment is to be reviewed in England, the government says.
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Mark Lynas’ book on global warming wins this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
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Parliament’s standards watchdog is to investigate Caroline Spelman’s payments to her nanny.
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Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea call for British mercenary Simon Mann to serve 30 years in jail for his 2004 coup plot.
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Madeleine McCann’s parents are visit the European Parliament to get support for a Europe-wide alert system for abducted children
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The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada is to be released from custody on bail within 24 hours, officials have confirmed.
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The theft of a PC containing restricted files from minister Hazel Blears’ office is ”alarming’, the Tories say.
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Austria’s compensation commission agrees a 13.9m euro settlement for a cable-car blaze in 2000 that killed 155 people.
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Ten Egyptian paramilitary police conscripts are charged with beating a colleague to death.
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Villagers in north-eastern Romania elect a dead man as their mayor, to avoid giving votes to his living rival.
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland’s ”subsistence” whalehunt is too commercially motivated.
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Peruvian demonstrators demanding a greater share of mining taxes overpower police and take dozens hostage.
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Goldman Sachs reports an 11% fall in quarterly profit, avoiding the massive losses sustained by some rivals.
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A US woman denies using a fake MySpace profile to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.
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A strike by fuel tanker drivers over pay ends and talks aimed at averting further industrial action resume.
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Israel’s Ehud Olmert and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad will come face to face next month in Paris, says France’s foreign minister.
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Plans to use high resolution cameras in space to monitor deforestation in the Congo Basin are unveiled.
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Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea call for British mercenary Simon Mann to serve 30 years in jail for his 2004 coup plot.
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore endorses the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama.
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A campaign warning young people about the consequences ofbinge-drinking is launched by ministers.
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A draft law is put forward in the Gulf state of Qatar that will for the first time protect the rights of domestic workers.
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Canada adds a Tamil group to its list of terror groups, describing it as a front for the Tamil Tigers.
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Actress Nicole Kidman stars in a new film set in the Australian outback which is hoped will boost tourism.
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US producer prices jumped by more than many analysts expected in May amid soaring fuel and food prices.
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A former EADS official is held by financial police for a second day in an inquiry into alleged insider trading.
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Stan Winston, who created creatures in films including Aliens, Jurassic Park and Terminator, dies aged 62.
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China’s yuan is at its highest level since July 2005 as US and Chinese officials begin a two-day meeting.
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A strike called by separatists in India’s tea-producing Darjeeling area resumes.
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Chad’s government accuses the Sudanese army of attacking a town on their border after days of rebel raids.
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Singer Amy Winehouse remains in hospital after fainting because medical tests have proved ”inconclusive”.
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Coldplay are on course to top the UK singles chart for the first time, early sales figures suggest.
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Three death row inmates are executed in Japan, two months after four other prisoners were hanged.
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Eleven Brazilian soldiers are arrested after allegedly handing over three men to a drug gang that killed them.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says terrorism is the greatest threat to France as he presents a new defence strategy.
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The features Mozilla hopes will put the new browser on the map
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Four Shia Muslims are killed in a gun attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.
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Hundreds of people flee their homes in a district of southern Afghanistan fearing fighting between troops and the Taleban.
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Militants from Pakistan’s troubled northern Swat district break off contact with the government.
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Tanker drivers working for Shell settle a pay dispute with employers, averting a further strike later this week.
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Lithuania passes the toughest curbs anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
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GPs are prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to dementia patients despite a safety warning, the BBC learns.
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Rome’s diocese bans filming in its two churches of the prequel to the controversial Da Vinci Code film.
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A method of storing human eggs to allow women to delay motherhood is found to be as safe as conventional IVF.
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Israeli police arrest two Jewish settlers over an apparent assault of Palestinians that was captured on film.
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Fighting breaks out in the West African state of Guinea between soldiers and striking police officers.
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China sends Vice-President Xi Jinping to North Korea in an apparent push for progress in nuclear talks.
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Death rates from cancer are higher among people living in the north than the rest of England, research shows.
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Police in Canada discover a human foot on a beach near Vancouver, the fifth to be found in the area in a year.
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Smoking cannabis while pregnant could harm the developing brain in the womb, researchers in Scotland claim.
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A car bomb at a busy bus stop in northern Baghdad kills 51 people and leaves another 75 wounded, say police.
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A memorial to journalists killed while on assignment is unveiled by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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A top UN official arrives in Zimbabwe amid continuing political violence ahead of this month’s presidential run-off.
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The policy of denying NHS services to patients who top up their care with private treatment is to be reviewed in England, the government says.
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Some of the first farmers probably used green beads to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
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The brains of gay people look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests.
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Nigeria suspends the head of its oil watchdog amid a probe into licences awarded under a former national president.
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Swedish popstar Robyn has been confirmed to support the material girl on the European dates of her Sticky & Sweet tour
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A businessman in the US is sent to jail for plotting to export military components to India.
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Heavy rains in India result in soaked animals descending on Delhi’s main airport to dry off, officials say.
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Pop star Britney Spears will not be charged over a photographer’s claim she ran over his foot, say officials.
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Same-sex couples in California exchange vows following a court ruling legalising gay marriage in the state.
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UN officials are given rare access to North Korea’s countryside to assess how serious food shortages there are.
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A top Pakistani lawyer says last week’s protest over sacked judges was an ‘honest mistake’.
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The Pakistani finance minister reveals defence budget details for the first time in 40 years.
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The EU must not renegotiate a reform treaty despite the Irish rejection of the Lisbon deal, France says.
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A Turkish publisher is sentenced to jail for ”insulting the Turkish republic” over a book on Armenian killings.
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Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers exposes torture and sexual violence in a little-known conflict in western Kenya.
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A new version of web browser Firefox goes on release, aiming to set a record for the most downloads in 24 hours.
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Fierce fighting breaks out between Lebanese government supporters and opposition supporters in the eastern Bekaa.
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Downing Street has announced that all Cabinet ministers will give up their pay rise for this financial year.
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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi defends a move to suspend some trials for a year amid accusations of conflict of interest.
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US comedienne Joan Rivers has an appearance on ITV’s Loose Women cut short after swearing live on air.
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Nigeria’s oil industry regulator head is suspended pending a probe into licences awarded under ex-President Obasanjo.
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Mass evacuations and river reinforcements are under way in southern China amid fears of more bad flooding.
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Two men are found guilty of murdering a sleeping teenager whom they mistook for his older brother.
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The Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson dies in a scuba diving accident at the age of 44.
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Nepal’s authorities have wasted no time in transforming the former king’s palace into a museum, the BBC’s Charles Haviland finds.
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Intel goes all out to prove how diverse a company it is
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There is believed to be just one survivor from a boat that sank while carrying 150 migrants from Libya to Italy.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah might be close to releasing two captured Israeli soldiers, the father of one soldier has said.
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A cannon and other key artefacts are raised from an Elizabethan ship wreck off the coast of the Channel Islands.
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The remake of The Incredible Hulk powers its way to the top of the US box office, figures show.
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