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| Sunday, 18 October, 2009, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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 | Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush. |
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| Father charged over child murders Police have charged a 37-year-old man with the murders of his two children found unconscious at a Manchester flat. | |
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| US balloon parents 'face charges' Colorado police say the parents of a boy mistakenly believed swept away by a weather balloon will face charges. | |
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| Arrests in power station protest At least 80 people are arrested and a police officer is airlifted to hospital during protests at a Nottinghamshire power plant. | |
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| Probe into jail transfer claims Claims that senior staff at two jails transferred vulnerable prisoners before visits by inspectors are to be investigated. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | US senator warns on Afghan troops US Senator John Kerry says it would be "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan before election results are clear. |
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| Rio police die as helicopter hit Two Brazilian policemen die after their helicopter crashes in Rio de Janeiro amid clashes between police and drug gangs. | |
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| US balloon parents 'face charges' Colorado police say the parents of a boy mistakenly believed swept away by a weather balloon will face charges. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Guinea embargo over 'atrocities' West African states order an arms embargo on Guinea over the mass shooting of opposition supporters last month. |
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| Ivorian dumping report published A scientific report into the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast by oil company Trafigura has been released after a bid to gag it was abandoned. | |
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| Guns given to Somali quiz winners The winners of a quiz organised by Somali Islamists are given weapons and ammunition as prizes. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Rio police die as helicopter hit Two Brazilian policemen die after their helicopter crashes in Rio de Janeiro amid clashes between police and drug gangs. |
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| US senator warns on Afghan troops US Senator John Kerry says it would be "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan before election results are clear. | |
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| US balloon parents 'face charges' Colorado police say the parents of a boy mistakenly believed swept away by a weather balloon will face charges. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | North Korea gulags 'hold 150,000' North Korea holds more than 150,000 political prisoners in six prison camps across the country, a South Korean MP says. |
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| Iraq cabinet ratifies oil deals Iraq's cabinet ratifies a deal with a British and a Chinese energy company to develop the giant southern oilfield in Rumaila. | |
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| Ageing plane hits Manila suburb A propeller-driven plane, reportedly from the 1930's, crashes in the Philippines, killing at least four people. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Big anti-abortion rally in Spain Hundreds of thousands take part in a march in Madrid to oppose government plans to liberalise Spain's abortion law. |
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| UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London. | |
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| Czech leader resigned to treaty Czech President Vaclav Klaus compares the Lisbon Treaty to an unstoppable speeding train, saying he may have to sign it. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iraq cabinet ratifies oil deals Iraq's cabinet ratifies a deal with a British and a Chinese energy company to develop the giant southern oilfield in Rumaila. |
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| Newsweek reporter freed in Iran An Iranian-Canadian journalist arrested during the protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election is freed. | |
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| Court claim over camel 'beauty' A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| US senator warns on Afghan troops US Senator John Kerry says it would be "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan before election results are clear. |
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| Pakistan launches Taliban assault Fierce fighting is reported as the Pakistan army opens its long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan. | |
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| Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
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| UK | |
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| Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush. |
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| Father charged over child murders Police have charged a 37-year-old man with the murders of his two children found unconscious at a Manchester flat. | |
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| Probe into jail transfer claims Claims that senior staff at two jails transferred vulnerable prisoners before visits by inspectors are to be investigated. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Father charged over child murders Police have charged a 37-year-old man with the murders of his two children found unconscious at a Manchester flat. |
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| Strangled woman found after fire A murder inquiry starts after the death of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found after a fire at a flat in Brighton. | |
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| Arrests in power station protest At least 80 people are arrested and a police officer is airlifted to hospital during protests at a Nottinghamshire power plant. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Girl's death 'swine flu related' The health minister confirms that a 14-year-old who died in the Western Trust area was suffering from the virus. |
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| Attacks drive family from village A Rasharkin man says his family are desperate to leave the County Antrim village after a series of sectarian attacks. | |
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| Four charged with kidnap attempt Four men are charged with a number of offences over an alleged attempt to take a family hostage in County Londonderry. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | SNP call over swine flu vaccine Scotland's health secretary will use the SNP conference to urge vulnerable groups to take the swine flu vaccine when it becomes available. |
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| Prince to attend statue memorial The Duke of Rothesay will attend a special re-dedication service marking the restoration of a famous memorial to the Black Watch. | |
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| Aquarium worker bitten by shark A 23-year-old staff member is bitten by an angel shark at North Queensferry's Deep Sea World aquarium. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Bomber compassion 'like Gandhi' Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond compares his justice secretary's actions to Indian peace champion Mahatma Gandhi. |
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| Legg 'had worries' on MP expenses The civil servant who carried out the MPs' expenses audit had warned about a lack of clarity in the rules, the BBC is told. | |
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| 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Lawyers for oil trading firm Trafigura end attempts to keep secret a report about toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush. |
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| Tough new lending rules expected New rules to make sure banks and credit card companies only lend to people that can afford the repayments are to be introduced. | |
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| Germany defends Opel deal Germany says European Commission concerns about state aid in the sale of carmaker Opel do not put the deal at risk. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Boyzone star in tribute to Gately Boyzone singer Ronan Keating breaks down during his funeral tribute to former bandmate Stephen Gately in Dublin. |
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| Polanski moved for medical tests Film director Roman Polanski has been moved from a Swiss prison to undergo medical tests, his lawyer says. | |
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| Calzaghe dances out of Strictly Former boxer Joe Calzaghe has become the latest celebrity to depart BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing show. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London. |
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| Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
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| LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. |
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| ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
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| Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Warning over fibroids treatment UK doctors are warning that one of the newer treatments for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm any subsequent pregnancy. |
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| 'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. | |
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| Foetal kick charts 'inaccurate' Foetal kick charts, used to check a pregnancy's healthy progress, are inaccurate and should not be used, Irish researchers say. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. |
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| Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
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| Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. | |
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| 1989: East Germany leader ousted The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems. | |||
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| 1963: Aristocrat is new prime minister A Scottish Earl, Lord Home, wins a bitter contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party to become Britain's new prime minister. | |||
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| 1967: Soviets glimpse beneath clouds of Venus The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time. | |||
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