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| Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 4:00 GMT 04:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Inmate reoffending 'costs £10bn' Reoffending by thousands of criminals serving short sentences in England and Wales costs up to £10bn a year, says a report. |
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| US 'hid terror suspect treatment' A former head of MI5 says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired. | |
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| Indonesia militant 'was killed' Indonesia's President Yudhoyono confirms security forces killed terror suspect Dulmatin in raids in Jakarta on Tuesday. | |
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| US attacks East Jerusalem plans The US vice-president condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, as he prepares to visit the West Bank. | |
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| Call to halt NHS medical database Doctors' leaders urge ministers to halt the development of a medical records database for patients in England. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Indonesia militant 'was killed' Indonesia's President Yudhoyono confirms security forces killed terror suspect Dulmatin in raids in Jakarta on Tuesday. |
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| US attacks East Jerusalem plans The US vice-president condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, as he prepares to visit the West Bank. | |
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| Ban honours UN's Haiti 'heroes' Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to the 101 UN staff who died in the Haiti quake, as President Preval seeks US support for the economy. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria 'ignored attack warnings' A Nigerian governor accuses the army of ignoring warnings of attacks, as communal tension remains high near Jos. |
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| Somali hope for Chandlers release Somalia's president says efforts are being made to release a Kent couple held by pirates at the "earliest possible date". | |
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| US apology for Gaddafi comments The US State Department apologises for comments its spokesman made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | US 'hid terror suspect treatment' A former head of MI5 says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired. |
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| Ban honours UN's Haiti 'heroes' Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to the 101 UN staff who died in the Haiti quake, as President Preval seeks US support for the economy. | |
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| Man admits blackmailing Letterman A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Indonesia militant 'was killed' Indonesia's President Yudhoyono confirms security forces killed terror suspect Dulmatin in raids in Jakarta on Tuesday. |
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| Formal Suu Kyi ban in Burma poll A new election law formally bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections planned in Burma. | |
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| Japan-US nuclear pact confirmed Japan confirms the existence of a secret Cold War pact allowing nuclear-armed US vessels to call at its ports. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | EU concern over end of tanker bid Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal. |
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| Arrests in Cyprus body theft case Three men are arrested in connection with the theft of the corpse of Cyprus's ex-President Papadopoulos, officials say. | |
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| US apology for Gaddafi comments The US State Department apologises for comments its spokesman made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | US attacks East Jerusalem plans The US vice-president condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, as he prepares to visit the West Bank. |
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| US apology for Gaddafi comments The US State Department apologises for comments its spokesman made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland. | |
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| Israeli 'spymaster' dies aged 82 A former Israeli spy who played a key role in Africa, the Middle East and the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal has died. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Indian MPs approve women's bill India's upper house sees a second day of uproar as it backs a bill to reserve a third of all parliamentary seats for women. |
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| UK seeks Afghan political drive Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban. | |
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| Pakistan live burial convictions A court in Pakistan sentences four men to life for the murder of two women buried alive in western Balochistan in 2008. | |
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| UK | |
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| Inmate reoffending 'costs £10bn' Reoffending by thousands of criminals serving short sentences in England and Wales costs up to £10bn a year, says a report. |
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| US 'hid terror suspect treatment' A former head of MI5 says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired. | |
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| Call to halt NHS medical database Doctors' leaders urge ministers to halt the development of a medical records database for patients in England. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Fraudster ran £34m pyramid scheme A professional gambler is found guilty of running a £34m pyramid scam which targeted people on low incomes. |
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| Facebook killer monitoring probed Merseyside Police refers its monitoring of the murderer of Ashleigh Hall to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. | |
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| Man fined over Turkey PM dog art An artist, originally from County Durham, charged with mocking Turkey's prime minister by portraying him as a dog is handed a fine. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | PM hails 'historic' justice vote The devolution of policing and justice powers to NI marks the end to decades of strife, Gordon Brown says. |
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| Second man accused of teen rape A second man has been charged with raping and sexually abusing a 15-year-old schoolgirl over a three-day period. | |
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| Irish 'plot to kill cartoonist' Seven people are arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Medical records lost after error A woman whose medical records disappeared from her GP surgery has sparked questions over the security of patient record transfers. |
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| Crisis talks over trams project Talks are to be held over Edinburgh's tram project in a bid to end a stalemate which has halted work on sections of the route. | |
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| Poor diet leaving Scots toothless More than a third of Scottish women and a quarter of men aged over 55 have lost all of their teeth, government figures reveal. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| PM hails 'historic' justice vote The devolution of policing and justice powers to NI marks the end to decades of strife, Gordon Brown says. |
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| UK seeks Afghan political drive Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban. | |
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| Social care deal 'dead in water' Attempts to reach a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water ahead of a key summit. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Banking fraud 'moves to internet' Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows. |
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| BA strike action talks to resume Talks aimed averting strike action by BA cabin crew are due to resume later, after a deadline was extended. | |
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| UK trade gap unexpectedly widens The UK goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widens in January, causing the pound to dip below $1.50. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Wonderland film breaks 3D record Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland enters the UK and Ireland box office at number one, with record opening takings for a 3D movie. |
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| Floyd take music label to court Rock band Pink Floyd launch legal action in the High Court against EMI over payment of online royalties and marketing of their music. | |
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| Man admits blackmailing Letterman A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Collider to fix faults for a year The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned. |
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| Ring may be giant 'impact crater' Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. | |
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| Ancient eggshell yields its DNA The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Hard drive evolution could hit XP Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for users of Windows XP. |
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| Porn net domain name plan revived A plan to create a net domain for adult content could be revisited three years after it was rejected by regulators. | |
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| Nanotech 'fuse' for novel battery A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Call to halt NHS medical database Doctors' leaders urge ministers to halt the development of a medical records database for patients in England. |
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| Social care deal 'dead in water' Attempts to reach a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water ahead of a key summit. | |
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| 'No proof' acupuncture helps IVF There is no evidence acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine boost the chance of IVF success, fertility experts warn. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | More schools likely to be failed More schools in England are being judged as inadequate in Ofsted's new-style inspections, figures are expected to show. |
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| Baby P rules 'may increase risks' Rules to improve child protection after the Baby P case may leave children more vulnerable to harm, council leaders warn. | |
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| £10m to get students into sport Universities are to be given £10m of National Lottery money to encourage more students to get involved in sport. | |
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| 1969: Martin Luther King's killer gets life James Earl Ray is jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting the murder of the American civil rights leader. | |||
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| 1988: Avalanche hits royal ski party The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche which kills one of his closest friends. | |||
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| 1990: Observer 'spy' sentenced to die A court in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, imposes the death sentence on The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft. | |||
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