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Councils say they are ”more than happy” not to sell voters’ details after a report condemns the practice.
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Police in Mexico are investigating online classified ads purporting to offer contract killings.
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Humans are using too much and nature is suffering
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Marine biologists plan to tie mini computers to jellyfish to track them off the coasts of north and west Wales.
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Space officials set a date of 2018 for launching an unmanned mission to return samples of Martian soil to Earth.
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Pope Benedict XVI says he will apologise for Church sex abuse scandals, as he arrives in Australia.
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The bodies of two US soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found, the Pentagon confirms.
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Bombardier Aerospace is investing half a billion pounds in Northern Ireland, which will sustain over 800 jobs.
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A gay rights group in Nepal accuses the army of expelling a woman officer for being a lesbian.
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Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel are to star in the ITV remake of the 1960s TV cult show The Prisoner.
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Mobile phone firms reach a deadline to cut the price of sending text messages in EU member nations.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is rushed to hospital with chest pains in Egypt.
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African leaders call on political parties in Zimbabwe to form a national unity government, following disputed elections.
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UBS overhauls its management structure as it tries to recover from losses linked to the sub-prime crisis.
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As it takes over the EU’s rotating presidency, France says it wants to give European space policy a new political direction.
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A man storms into a police station in the Chinese city of Shanghai and stabs at least five officers to death, officials say.
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A South American summit under way in Argentina is set to voice strong criticism of new European Union immigration laws.
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Film star Angelina Jolie checks into a hospital in the south of France where she is expected to give birth to twins.
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A Chinese businessman wins the right to have lunch with Warren Buffett after bidding $2.1m on auction site eBay.
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A 69-year-old Australian man is charged with hacking his grandchildren and wife to death with an axe.
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The US Federal Reserve auctions a further $75bn of loans to banks to help them through the credit crunch.
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Football’s world governing body, Fifa, says it will decide this week on the postponed Sudan versus Chad game.
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Too little of one type of cholesterol has been linked by research to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Investment in ‘green’ energy surged in 2007 and early 2008 despite financial market woe, a report says.
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Egypt temporarily re-opens its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow stranded people to cross.
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Security firm invites 50 people from around the world to surf unprotected for a month.
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Indian-administered Kashmir’s government revokes a plan to give land to a Hindu organisation, but protests continue.
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Sudan’s president orders a ban on Antonov aircraft after another plane crash, state media reports.
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World oil supplies will grow more slowly than previously thought over the next five years, warns the International Energy Agency.
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A ban on the smoking of tobacco – but not marijuana – in cafes, bars and restaurants comes into force in the Netherlands.
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The man wanted over the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is hiding in western Europe, Russia’s chief investigator says.
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Four Iraqi men say they are suing US military contractors for torturing them at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
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A TV station in Venezuela is punished for broadcasting The Simpsons during a time slot reserved for children’s shows.
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French authorities exhume the body of a women who was murdered in Ireland almost 12 years ago.
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A Roman Catholic priest is killed in Nepal after armed men broke into his home in the southern region of Terai.
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Israeli and Syrian negotiators are to meet for a third round of indirect peace negotiations, mediated by Turkey.
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Multiple vaccinations probably did not cause illness among British troops in Iraq, a UK study finds.
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France’s army chief of staff resigns after a soldier injured 17 people at a show by using live rounds instead of blanks.
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Israel rejects Palestinian journalist’s allegations of harsh treatment by security officials at West Bank border.
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Luciano Pavarotti’s widow and the tenor’s three daughters from his first marriage reach a deal over his inheritance.
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Britney Spears is looking for a new home with extra space for her children and more privacy, court records reveal.
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Patients’ rating of the quality of their care will directly affect funding of NHS services in England, the government says.
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A 78-year-old man falls asleep as he tries to row home to Denmark from Sweden after a night drinking, police say.
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Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim urges supporters to protest against what he claims is a conspiracy against him.
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A helicopter that had just flown the Sri Lankan president to a ceremony is hit by gunfire soon after dropping him off.
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More than 10,000 people work to clean up green algae that has invaded the Olympic sailing venue in Qingdao.
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Supermarket chain Tesco says it is to stop buying goods from Zimbabwe because of the political crisis there.
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Personal flying machines will be a reality, says home computer and electric car pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair.
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Madonna’s childhood home in Detroit is destroyed in a suspected arson attack.
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One in four secondary schools in England does not have any specialist physics teachers, says a survey.
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Bangladesh and Pakistan announce further sharp rises in fuel prices as the cost of crude oil continues to soar.
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The expected transfer of an Iraqi province to local security control on Monday is postponed without explanation from US-led forces.
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Two militant groups based in the Waziristan region of Pakistan decide to coordinate attacks against coalition forces inside Afghanistan.
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A man wanted by police in connection with two sex attacks in West Yorkshire is arrested in Cornwall.
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Australia’s former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, leaves politics to become UN envoy to the Cyprus peace process.
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Senior envoys for Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are in Beijing for formal talks, the government-in-exile says.
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The procurement process is opened to construct Europe’s much-delayed Galileo satellite-navigation system.
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Eating a poor diet when pregnant or breastfeeding may cause long-lasting health damage to the child, animal studies suggest.
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A leaked e-mail shows how university staff are being urged to increase the number of top degree grades.
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Mongolia’s president declares a state of emergency following violent protests over alleged vote-rigging in elections.
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President Sarkozy admits that France’s EU presidency is off to a bumpy start, as Poland casts doubt on the Lisbon Treaty.
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The West Bank is facing grave water shortages partly because of ”discriminatory” Israeli policies, an Israeli rights group says.
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Markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as inflation worries and fears of further bank losses dent confidence.
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A 55-year-old woman who advertised for an egg donor on London buses gives birth to a healthy baby girl.
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The unexpected closure of all banks in Tanzania surprises many businesses in the East African nation.
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Parliament in Bhutan bans its members from bringing laptops to work – to stop them playing computer games.
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Two European envoys are in Colombia to try to break the deadlock over the fate of rebel-held hostages, officials say.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shares an historic handshake with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
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Late film star Heath Ledger’s hometown names a performing arts centre in his honour.
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About 1,500 teachers in the Maldives go on strike demanding the government pay promised salary rises.
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A French court orders eBay to pay 40 million euros in damages to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing the sale of fake goods.
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A Chilean judge adds two life terms to the sentences being served by former secret police chief Manuel Contreras.
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US digital music service Rhapsody is the latest company to embrace MP3 downloads without copy restrictions.
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A Hampshire pub is the perfect place to get things off your chest as the home to the UK’s official Grumpy Club.
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The government has headed off a threatened Commons revolt over the scrapping of the 10p tax band.
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Two people charged with conspiracy to supply singer Amy Winehouse with drugs appear in court.
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Two loggerhead turtles are flown to Gran Canaria and returned to the wild after washing up on UK shores.
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Two Nigerian ex-aviation ministers are arrested over missing money for new radars.
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Hundreds of people march in north London to protest against knife crime following the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.
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The UN and AU appoint Burkina Faso’s foreign minister as their new Darfur peace envoy.
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Sexually-transmitted infections double in under a decade in older people in the UK, research suggests.
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A host of film stars and pop legends grace a Greek themed Leicester Square for the world premiere of Mamma Mia!
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Foreign staff at BP’s Russian joint venture could be forced out of the country after their visa requests were refused.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor presents his case for banning the ruling AK party to the constitutional court.
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An international initiative aims to speed diagnosis and care of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in developing countries.
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Lawyers in Australia say police powers introduced for a major Roman Catholic gathering undermine free speech.
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GM shares fall to a 54-year low as investors worry about the firm’s financial position amid falling sales.
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Vietnam’s economy slows in the first half of 2008 but lower growth is welcome to prevent overheating, economists say.
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India’s main Communist party says it is discussing withdrawal of support to the government over a civilian nuclear deal with the US.
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Campaigners from many of the 15 sites in England earmarked for ”eco-towns” are protesting outside Parliament.
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The bodies of at least 12 would-be migrants are found washed up in Libreville, Gabon.
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A police force in a US town adds $12 to fines for offending motorists to offset high fuel costs of chasing them down.
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Workers in Sydney run for cover after mistaking a military exercise for an aerial attack.
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Using a child’s body mass index (BMI) as a measure of the success of exercise targets may be misleading, say experts.
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The timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York is abandoned as projects run over budget.
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An ex-Body Shop employee is fined after using confidential information he stole to bet on the firm’s shares falling.
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Animal research in several countries suggests caffeine may help reduce nerve damage associated with multiple sclerosis.
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UK house prices fell for the eighth month in a row, according to the latest survey from the Nationwide.
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The month of June is the deadliest for foreign troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 fall of the Taleban, official figures show.
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