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| Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 4:00 GMT 04:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Czech court to hear Lisbon case The Czech's top court is set to consider what could be the last legal challenge to the ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. |
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| Obama vows no rush on Afghanistan US President Barack Obama says he will not be rushed as he considers whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan. | |
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| Hacker's extradition put on hold Home Secretary Alan Johnson says he has "stopped the clock" on moves to extradite Gary McKinnon to the US. | |
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| Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. | |
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| New Nasa rocket prepares to fly A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test flight, despite questions over its future. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Afghan rivals row over poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. |
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| Czech court to hear Lisbon case The Czech's top court is set to consider what could be the last legal challenge to the ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. | |
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| Castro's sister 'spied for CIA' A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, admits spying for the CIA for three years in the 1960s | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Zimbabwe talks end 'without deal' Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai ends talks on power-sharing with President Robert Mugabe with no agreement, his spokesman says. |
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| US bans senior Kenyan official The US imposes a travel ban on a Kenyan official, amid concerns over a failure to look into post-election violence. | |
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| Somali threat sparks Uganda alert All Somalis entering Uganda will be registered after militants threatened Kampala for sending peacekeepers to Somalia. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama vows no rush on Afghanistan US President Barack Obama says he will not be rushed as he considers whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan. |
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| Castro's sister 'spied for CIA' A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, admits spying for the CIA for three years in the 1960s | |
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| New Nasa rocket prepares to fly A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test flight, despite questions over its future. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Malaysian bridge fall kills one A Malaysian child is killed after a suspension bridge over a river in northern Perak state collapses, but 19 others are rescued. |
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| S Korea clone scientist convicted A South Korean court convicts disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk of embezzlement over his stem cell research. | |
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| Japan pop star trial draws crowd Thousands of people in Tokyo queue for 20 seats in a courtroom's public gallery to see the trial of a Japanese pop star. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Czech court to hear Lisbon case The Czech's top court is set to consider what could be the last legal challenge to the ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. |
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| Polanski victim seeks dismissal The victim of the sexual assault committed by Roman Polanski calls for charges against the director to be dismissed. | |
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| McDonald's pulls out of Iceland McDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150 Iraqi officials raise the death toll from Sunday's bombing in Baghdad to 155 and with another 500 people wounded. |
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| Pakistan holds Iran border guards Up to eleven Iranians are detained in Pakistan for illegally entering the country, Pakistani police say. | |
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| Israel 'cuts Palestinian water' Israel is denying Palestinians access to the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Afghan crashes kill 14 Americans At least 14 Americans are killed and more injured in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Afghan rivals row over poll chief Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission. | |
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| Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses Sri Lanka says it will appoint a committee to probe US claims of human rights abuses during the final phase of its civil war. | |
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| UK | |
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 | President Blair push 'dismissed' Number 10 dismisses as speculation reports that officials have been asked to lobby for Tony Blair to become EU president. |
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| Hacker's extradition put on hold Home Secretary Alan Johnson says he has "stopped the clock" on moves to extradite Gary McKinnon to the US. | |
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| Honour case mother denies killing The mother of an alleged "honour killing" victim denies that it was she who killed her daughter. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Homophobic attack on trainee Pc Four youths are arrested after an off-duty trainee officer is critically injured in an attack by a gang of up to 20 people in Liverpool. |
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| Death crash police officer jailed A former police officer who killed a woman while speeding in a patrol car on a personal errand is jailed for six-and-a-half years. | |
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| Farm opens after E. coli outbreak A petting farm at the centre of an E. coli outbreak in Surrey reopens, but people will have no contact with animals. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Flu jab for special needs staff The NI Health Minister says he is extending the swine flu vaccination to some staff working at special schools. |
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| Family escapes injury in shooting A family escapes injury during a gun attack on their home in Dunmurry on the outskirts of west Belfast. | |
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| Writer faces £25,000 legal bill A journalist faces a £25,000 legal bill after a successful fight against police attempts to force her to hand over notes on the Real IRA. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Scots election reform 'too slow' The Electoral Commisson urges faster action to improve the system for overseeing Scottish elections. |
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| New benefits have 'caused misery' Citizens Advice Scotland says it has been "flooded with complaints" about a benefit introduced a year ago for sick and disabled people. | |
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| Soldier dies from blast injuries A British soldier has died in hospital in the UK from wounds sustained in an attack in Afghanistan | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Ministers retreat on territorials Ministers scale back planned cuts to the training of the Territorial Army after fierce criticism from the opposition. |
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| Hacker's extradition put on hold Home Secretary Alan Johnson says he has "stopped the clock" on moves to extradite Gary McKinnon to the US. | |
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| Tory MP survives confidence vote Conservative MP Eleanor Laing survives a vote of confidence by her constituency party after criticism of her conduct over expenses. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Crunch post strike talks 'useful' Talks aimed at ending the row over pay, conditions and modernisation at Royal Mail end for the day but will reconvene. |
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| Strike ballot for BA cabin crew Cabin crew at British Airways are to be balloted about whether to take strike action, the Unite union says. | |
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| Barclays buys Standard Life Bank Barclays is buying Standard Life Bank, the offshoot of the Edinburgh-based life insurance company, for £226m. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Lily leads pop charge at Q Awards Pop acts Lady Gaga and Lily Allen scoop prizes at the Q Awards, alongside rock act winners Muse and the Arctic Monkeys. |
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| Sir Elton cancels Wembley concert Singer Sir Elton John cancels his Wembley Arena concert, the third gig he has pulled out of after being diagnosed with flu. | |
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| Leona suspect 'not fit for court' A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis at a book signing is not fit to attend court, a judge is told. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | New Nasa rocket prepares to fly A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test flight, despite questions over its future. |
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| Particle beams injected into LHC Particle beams have been injected into the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since September 2008. | |
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| Paint 'to thwart chemical attack' Scientists plan to develop a paint coating for military vehicles which would soak up chemical agents and then decontaminate itself. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Net set for 'language shake-up' The net is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented forty years ago", the regulator Icann says. |
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| End of an era for early websites Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities, a service which gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page. | |
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| Mobile net 'heading for data jam' The number of people using their mobile phone to get online could soon outstrip the capacity of networks, experts warn. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Leisure centre 'junk food' alert Vending machines stocked with unhealthy snacks in leisure centres run the risk of fuelling childhood obesity, warn experts. |
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| Patients 'at risk over drug data' Patients leaving hospital may be being put at risk of harmful reactions to drugs due to poor communication between hospitals and GPs, a study says. | |
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| HPV jab girls are 'sex cautious' Eight in 10 girls say that having the HPV vaccine makes them think twice about the risks of having sex, a poll finds. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Career advice for seven-year-olds Children as young as seven are to be offered careers advice under a government pilot in seven areas of England. |
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| Darwin teaching 'divides opinion' Millions of adults across the world think evolutionary theories should be taught alongside creationism in schools, a survey suggests. | |
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| Loans firm tightens debt recovery The Student Loans Company tightens its debt recovery procedures as it writes off £29m | |
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| 1978: Gunman runs amok in West Midlands Four people are killed and four others seriously wounded after a gunman goes on a shooting spree in the Midlands. | |||
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| 1982: RUC officers killed by IRA bomb Three RUC officers investigating reports of a robbery in Lurgan die after a bomb explodes beneath their armoured police car. | |||
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| 1968: Police clash with anti-war protesters An estimated 6,000 marchers demonstrating against the Vietnam War face up to police outside the US Embassy in London. | |||
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