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| Thursday, 01 April, 2010, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Company bosses back Tories on tax More than 20 business leaders voice support for Tory plans to scrap part of a planned National Insurance rise if they win power. |
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| Snow strands passengers on train A rescue train is sent to collect 107 rail passengers stranded for nearly six hours when their train hits a snowdrift. | |
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| Rise in £100,000 council workers The number of UK council bosses earning £100,000 or more rose by 14% last year, according to a campaign group. | |
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| Society 'risk-averse' on parole Large numbers of people remain in jail because society is too "risk-averse" to their release on licence, a parole chief says. | |
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| PM admits migration data 'misuse' Gordon Brown admits he "misused" immigration figures after being criticised by the statistics watchdog. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | UN Haiti pledges surpass targets Aid pledges totalling nearly $10bn are made for earthquake-hit Haiti, exceeding the target set at a donor conference. |
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| Key candidate quits Sudan polls Southern Sudan's main candidate for national president pulls out of the race, casting doubt on the electoral process. | |
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| Confession over US mission attack A man held over a recent fatal attack on US consular staff in Mexico confesses to participating in the murders, officials say. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Key candidate quits Sudan polls Southern Sudan's main candidate for national president pulls out of the race, casting doubt on the electoral process. |
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| ICC to investigate Kenya violence The International Criminal Court allows its prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes against humanity after Kenya's 2007 poll. | |
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| Ugandan man admits to tomb fire A man turns himself in to Uganda's police, confessing to starting the fire which destroyed five Buganda royal tombs. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| UN Haiti pledges surpass targets Aid pledges totalling nearly $10bn are made for earthquake-hit Haiti, exceeding the target set at a donor conference. |
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| Obama eases ban on oil drilling Barack Obama proposes ending a decades-old ban on new offshore oil drilling, in a bid to cut US dependence on imports. | |
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| Confession over US mission attack A man held over a recent fatal attack on US consular staff in Mexico confesses to participating in the murders, officials say. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Weather halts Korea ship search South Korean search teams have suspend their efforts to reach missing sailors on a sunken warship, because of poor weather conditions. |
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| China arrests over dumped babies Two hospital workers are arrested and several suspended after 21 dead babies are found on a river bank in northern China. | |
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| 'Cyber attacks' on Vietnam sites Web giant Google says malicious software has been used to spy on online critics of bauxite mines in Vietnam. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Chechen rebel claims Metro blasts Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov says he ordered the attacks on the Moscow Metro, as Russia buries blast victims. |
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| Belgian board votes for veil ban A committee of Belgian MPs votes to prohibit face-covering Islamic veils, paving the way for the first such ban in Europe. | |
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| US offers to extend jet deadline The Pentagon says it will extend the bidding deadline for a new fleet of US air refuelling tankers, if EADS makes a formal request. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Call to bar Iraq election winners Six of the winning candidates in Iraq's elections should be disqualified because of alleged ties to the former Baath government, a vetting panel says. |
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| Iranian scientist 'defects to US' An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since June has defected to the United States, a media report there says. | |
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| Death 'looms for Saudi sorcerer' The lawyer for a Lebanese TV host sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft appeals for international help to save him. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Sri Lanka leader to visit Jaffna Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to make a rare visit to Jaffna, the cultural capital of the country's Tamil minority. |
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| Afghan market bombing kills many A bomb in a busy Afghan market kills 13 people as the top US military official visits Kabul ahead of a new offensive. | |
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| Mumbai attacks trial concludes The trial of the man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks concludes, with a verdict expected in May. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Girl killed as heavy snow hits UK A 17-year-old girl is killed in a school coach crash as heavy snow and strong winds hit parts of the UK. |
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| Company bosses back Tories on tax More than 20 business leaders voice support for Tory plans to scrap part of a planned National Insurance rise if they win power. | |
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| Rise in £100,000 council workers The number of UK council bosses earning £100,000 or more rose by 14% last year, according to a campaign group. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Policeman cleared of G20 assault A police officer accused of striking a woman with a metal baton at a G20 protest in London is cleared of common assault. |
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| Heathrow armed raid gang jailed A Heathrow warehouse robber is sentenced to 20 years in prison at the end of a historic trial without a jury. | |
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| Tagged pet shop owner 'stunned' A pet shop owner says she was stunned to be electronically tagged after selling a goldfish to a 15-year-old boy. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | PSNI search Gilligan firm office Police officers search the offices of a company linked to Northern Ireland Policing Board chairman Barry Gilligan. |
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| 30,000 homes still without power About 30,000 homes remain without power after an ice-storm knocks out parts of Northern Ireland's electricity network. | |
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| Robinson 'must provide answers' Martin McGuinness says Peter Robinsons has "questions to answer" after reports he and his wife bought valuable land for £5. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Snow strands passengers on train A rescue train is sent to collect 107 rail passengers stranded for nearly six hours when their train hits a snowdrift. |
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| Thousands without power overnight Thousands of homes across Scotland are spending the night without power after heavy winds and snow battered the country. | |
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| Council debates Purcell departure Glasgow City Council will discuss an SNP motion on the controversial departure of its former leader Steven Purcell later. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Company bosses back Tories on tax More than 20 business leaders voice support for Tory plans to scrap part of a planned National Insurance rise if they win power. |
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| PM admits migration data 'misuse' Gordon Brown admits he "misused" immigration figures after being criticised by the statistics watchdog. | |
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| Rise in £100,000 council workers The number of UK council bosses earning £100,000 or more rose by 14% last year, according to a campaign group. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | US offers to extend jet deadline The Pentagon says it will extend the bidding deadline for a new fleet of US air refuelling tankers, if EADS makes a formal request. |
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| New carbon emission scheme starts A new scheme to cut carbon emissions from big businesses and other organisations comes into effect. | |
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| EMI ends talks to sell US rights EMI abandons talks to license out the rights to its records in the US and Canada, a deal it hoped would raise vitally needed funds. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Reunited Libertines play pub gig The Libertines play together for the first time since 2004 and pledge to stay together for their summer festival dates. |
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| Kapoor designs 2012 Orbit tower A spiralling sculpture designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor is chosen as the monument to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games. | |
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| Bullock's husband 'seeking help' The husband of Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock has checked into a treatment facility, according to US reports. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Blueprint of the songbird genome Scientists create a "blueprint" of a songbird genome, revealing evolutionary clues about vocal communication. |
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| Climate science 'openness' urged MPs investigating the recent climate change e-mail row demand greater transparency from climate scientists. | |
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| Toads can 'predict earthquakes' Common toads can sense an impending earthquake, fleeing their colony days before seismic activity strikes. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Phones knocked out by flood at BT A flood at a BT exchange in Paddington has affected thousands of broadband and phone customers in the UK. |
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| Opposition mounts to digital bill The government publishes a new draft of a controversial clause of the Digital Economy Bill as critics argue it should not be rushed through parliament. | |
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| Ordnance Survey offers free data Mapping agency frees up more data for re-use by the public as part of a Government initiative. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Top hospitals face tough censure A dozen NHS trusts meant to be among the elite have been told to improve or face tough sanctions. |
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| Cheap holidays 'skin cancer link' The advent of cheap package holidays in the 1970s has led to a "generational shift" in the rates of skin cancer, a charity warns. | |
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| Prostate cancer prevention clue A drug already used in men with enlarged prostates seems to cut the risk of prostate cancer, an international study has shown. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Children 'need more school trips' More funding is needed to send school pupils in England on educational trips outside the classroom, according to a report by MPs. |
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| Tory free schools 'barking mad' A teachers' leader has described Conservative plans to allow parents to set up and run their own schools in England as "barking mad". | |
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| Majority of women in university For the first time, more than half of young women are now entering university, figure reveal. | |
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| 1957: BBC fools the nation The BBC receives a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary about spaghetti crops in Switzerland. | |||
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| 1990: Rioting inmates take over Strangeways Up to 1,000 prisoners run amok at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in a violent protest against overcrowding. | |||
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| 2001: Ex-Yugoslav leader arrested after siege Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is arrested and taken to prison | |||
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