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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Ashcroft cleared in donor probe The Electoral Commission says £5.1m donated to the Tories by one of Lord Ashcroft's firms were "legal and permissible". |
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| British boy kidnapped in Pakistan A five-year-old boy from Greater Manchester is kidnapped by robbers while on holiday in Pakistan's Punjab province. | |
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| 'More birth defects' in Fallujah Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah report a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US military. | |
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| Bank keeps interest rates on hold The Bank of England has kept the cost of borrowing at a record low of 0.5% for the 12th consecutive month. | |
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| Cancer con granddaughter jailed A conwoman who pretended to have cancer and cheated her grandmother and fiance out of £150,000 is jailed for three years. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Four jailed for German bomb plot A German court convicts four Islamist militants of plotting what a judge called Germany's 9/11 against US targets. |
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| Polling stations attacked in Iraq Three bombs go off in Baghdad killing at least 14 people as early voting gets under way in Iraq's parliamentary election. | |
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| Singer murder convictions quashed Egypt's highest court orders the retrial of a tycoon and ex-policeman sentenced to death for killing a Lebanese pop singer. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama urges vote on health reform US President Barack Obama calls on Congress to "finish its work" on the US healthcare system and vote on reforms within weeks. |
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| Brazil rebuffs US Iran pressure Brazil will not bow to US pressure to support sanctions against Iran over its nuclear work, the country's foreign minister says. | |
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| US lifts lid on cyberwarfare plan The White House lifts the lid on a secret plan outlining how the government will protect US networks from cyber warfare. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Many die in India temple stampede At least 63 people die in a stampede after the gate of a temple collapses in northern India, police say. |
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| British boy kidnapped in Pakistan A five-year-old boy from Greater Manchester is kidnapped by robbers while on holiday in Pakistan's Punjab province. | |
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| Arrests in India guru sex scandal Nine people are arrested in south India for vandalising the ashram of a Hindu holy man embroiled in a sex scandal. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Cancer con granddaughter jailed A conwoman who pretended to have cancer and cheated her grandmother and fiance out of £150,000 is jailed for three years. |
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| BBC producer jailed over sex DVDs A BBC radio producer who secretly filmed himself having sex with women, including presenters, is jailed for eight months. | |
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| Kraft plans 150 Cadbury job cuts Cadbury workers in Uxbridge and Bournville are consulted about plans to make up to 150 people redundant. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Bank keeps interest rates on hold The Bank of England has kept the cost of borrowing at a record low of 0.5% for the 12th consecutive month. |
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| UK house prices 'dropped by 1.5%' UK house prices recorded their first monthly fall since June, with a 1.5% drop in February, according to the Halifax. | |
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| VT opens bid talks with Babcock Babcock International and VT Group are in talks about merging their companies into a support services powerhouse. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Mutya applies for Sugababes name Former Sugababes singer Mutya Buena has applied for ownership of the band's name, her legal firm says. |
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| Cameron defends Hiroshima author James Cameron has not ruled out making a film of a book about the atomic bombing which was pulled over accuracy concerns. | |
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| GMTV's Smith quits breakfast show GMTV presenter and newsreader Penny Smith is quitting the ITV breakfast programme after 17 years, the show confirms. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Gut microbes hold 'second genome' There are more genes in the microbial flora in our gut than in the rest of our bodies. So many in fact that they are being dubbed our 'second genome'. |
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| Promise made on UK physics woes The government is promising to put in place measures to protect the funding of physics and astronomy in the UK. | |
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| Dinosaur's oldest relative found Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | US urges 'action' on net attacks The US government admits that more needs to be done in order to protect the country and its citzens from cyber attacks. |
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| Lords force online piracy rethink Ministers are defeated over plans to tackle online piracy, but critics say the replacement is just as bad for internet freedom. | |
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| Microsoft offers first Google app Microsoft releases its first mobile application for phones running the Android operating system from rival Google. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Gadget may offer migraine relief A new hand-held device which emits a magnetic pulse could offer pain relief to people who suffer from serious migraines. |
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| Inquiry into child surgery deaths An inquiry starts into the deaths of four children during heart surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. | |
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| Experts to check maternity unit An expert team is being brought in to improve a failing maternity unit run by an NHS hospital foundation trust in Buckinghamshire where two babies died. | |
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| 1976: Guilty verdict for 'Maguire Seven' A 40-year-old Irish born mother-of-four and six others are jailed for possessing explosives. <i>Their convictions are later quashed.</i> | |||
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| 1989: Six die in Purley rail crash Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, in a train crash at Purley in Surrey. | |||
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| 1969: Kray twins guilty of McVitie murder The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court. | |||
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