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| Thursday, 04 February, 2010, 14:00 GMT 21:00 +07:00:Asia/Jakarta |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | MPs told to repay £1.1m expenses MPs have been told to repay £1.1m of second homes expenses claimed between 2004 and 2008 after an audit of claims. |
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| Patient 'killed unlawfully' by GP Shake up of the out-of-hours system is needed to ensure the safety of patients after a patient was unlawfully killed by an overseas doctor, a coroner has said. | |
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| Bank halts £200bn stimulus scheme Bank of England decides against further quantitative easing, the policy designed to stimulate growth in the economy. | |
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| British Gas cuts gas prices by 7% British Gas announces it is cutting standard gas prices by an average of 7%, with immediate effect. | |
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| Toyota repairs to start next week Toyota in the UK says it will be nearly a week before it can start repairs on cars with defective accelerator pedals. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | China hits back at US over trade China defends its policies after US President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over trade. |
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| Nepal 'should suspend' adoptions The adoption of children from Nepal should be suspended, the global body that governs inter-country adoption recommends. | |
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| Toyota admits Prius brake 'clash' Toyota says it has fixed a software problem in the new Prius's brakes, as the carmaker's stream of bad news continues. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| China hits back at US over trade China defends its policies after US President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over trade. |
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| Swiss funds awarded to Baby Doc At least $4.6m (£2.9m) in Swiss bank accounts must be returned to the family of Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, a Swiss court rules. | |
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| Charges over 'sweat lodge' deaths A motivational speaker is charged with manslaughter over the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Nepal 'should suspend' adoptions The adoption of children from Nepal should be suspended, the global body that governs inter-country adoption recommends. |
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| Scientist guilty of US murder bid A US court finds a Pakistani female scientist guilty of attempting to murder US agents while detained in Afghanistan. | |
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| Curfew imposed in Kashmir capital A curfew is imposed in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, following violent protests over the killing of a 15-year-old boy. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Father talks of children's deaths A father from West Yorkshire breaks down as he tells a court in Corfu how his children died from carbon monoxide poisoning. |
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| Stabbed youth 'savaged by dogs' A 16-year-old boy was killed in a gang attack in which two dogs were used as weapons, the Old Bailey hears. | |
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| MP couple told to repay £60,000 Husband and wife MPs Andrew MacKay and Julie Kirkbride are told to repay about £60,000 of expenses claimed for second homes. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Bank halts £200bn stimulus scheme Bank of England decides against further quantitative easing, the policy designed to stimulate growth in the economy. |
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| British Gas cuts gas prices by 7% British Gas announces it is cutting standard gas prices by an average of 7%, with immediate effect. | |
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| Toyota admits Prius brake 'clash' Toyota says it has fixed a software problem in the new Prius's brakes, as the carmaker's stream of bad news continues. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Sculpture fetches £65m at auction A life-size bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti is sold at auction for the world record price of £65,001,250. |
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| Andre's tears prompt complaints Viewers complain after Peter Andre fights back tears in a live TV interview over suggestions his children could be adopted. | |
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| Wogan quits show on ratings high Sir Terry Wogan left his Radio 2 show last year on a high, matching his biggest ever audience, Rajar figures show. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Close encounters with Japan's 'living fossil' BBC News has a rare "up close and personal" look at one of the planet's oldest and oddest creatures, the giant salamander. |
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| Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System. | |
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| Scan unlocks vegetative patients Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Symbian switches to open source The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" of code for free. |
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| Phishing scam hits carbon permits Online criminals have created fake carbon registries and managed to steal permits worth 3 million euros. | |
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| ISP cleared of copyright charge An Australian judge has ruled that ISP iiNet is not responsible for the illegal downloads of its customers. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Patient 'killed unlawfully' by GP Shake up of the out-of-hours system is needed to ensure the safety of patients after a patient was unlawfully killed by an overseas doctor, a coroner has said. |
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| Scan unlocks vegetative patients Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts. | |
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| Gene loss link to severely obese A small number of extremely overweight people may be missing the same chunk of genetic material, claim UK researchers. | |
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| 1974: Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing Eleven people are killed in a bomb blast on a bus travelling to an army base in North Yorkshire. | |||
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| 1998: 4,000 feared dead in Afghan earthquake An earthquake in northern Afghanistan leaves thousands dead, injured or homeless. | |||
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| 1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination. | |||
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