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| Tuesday, 13 April, 2010, 3:00 GMT 04:00 +01:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Tories pledge to empower voters The Conservatives will launch their manifesto on Tuesday by pledging to give people more control of their own lives. |
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| Stark nuclear warning for summit World leaders at a security summit in the US hear dire warnings about nuclear material falling into the wrong hands. | |
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| Mephedrone ban to come into force Mephedrone is to become illegal from Friday, when it will be classified as a Class B drug, says the Home Office. | |
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| Iran urges UN inquiry into wars Iran asks the UN to investigate Western actions in Afghanistan and Iraq amid growing nuclear tensions. | |
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| New probe into Julie Ward murder Scotland Yard says detectives have been to Kenya as part of a new inquiry into the unsolved 1988 murder of a British woman. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Stark nuclear warning for summit World leaders at a security summit in the US hear dire warnings about nuclear material falling into the wrong hands. |
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| Thailand PM faces rising pressure Thailand's army chief calls for parliament to be dissolved, while election officials say the PM's party should be disbanded. | |
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| Fatal train crash in north Italy A landslide derails a regional train in northern Italy, killing at least nine people and injuring about 30, Italian media say. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Sudan extends landmark elections Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years are extended by two days after delays delivering ballot papers to polling stations. |
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| New probe into Julie Ward murder Scotland Yard says detectives have been to Kenya as part of a new inquiry into the unsolved 1988 murder of a British woman. | |
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| Nigeria ex-leader eyes presidency General Ibrahim Babangida declares his intention to run in Nigerian presidential elections due in 2011. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| Stark nuclear warning for summit World leaders at a security summit in the US hear dire warnings about nuclear material falling into the wrong hands. |
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| Mexico drug cartels 'close ranks' Mexican officials say two of the country's most powerful drugs cartels have joined forces against a third. | |
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| Cuba liberalises barber shops Cuba cedes hundreds of state-run barber shops and beauty salons to employees in a move towards privatisation. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Thailand PM faces rising pressure Thailand's army chief calls for parliament to be dissolved, while election officials say the PM's party should be disbanded. |
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| Australia refloats Reef coal ship A Chinese coal ship that ran aground near the Great Barrier Reef sparking fears of an ecological disaster is refloated. | |
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| Bakiyev 'to defy Kyrgyz arrest' Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev says he will defy attempts to arrest him, at a rally in his village. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Poland crash sparks travel review Poland's acting president is to review travel rules for military officials after the president and generals die in a plane crash. |
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| Fatal train crash in north Italy A landslide derails a regional train in northern Italy, killing at least nine people and injuring about 30, Italian media say. | |
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| 'Ukraine vow' at nuclear summit Ukraine will scrap its stockpile of bombs-grade nuclear material by 2012, the US says, as a nuclear security summit opens. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Fears of West Bank deportations Israel is set to impose a military order which some fear could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank. |
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| Iran urges UN inquiry into wars Iran asks the UN to investigate Western actions in Afghanistan and Iraq amid growing nuclear tensions. | |
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| Israelis remember Holocaust dead Israel comes to a halt by the sound of sirens for two minutes to remember those who died in the Holocaust. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Indian and Pakistani stars marry Indian tennis star Sania Mirza marries Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik after a drama which saw him divorce another woman. |
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| Nato forces kill Afghan civilians At least four civilians die and 18 others are wounded as Nato forces fire at a bus in Kandahar, sparking angry protests. | |
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| US boy, 13, in Mount Everest bid A 13-year-old American boy is to try to become the youngest person to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. | |
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| UK | |
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| Tories pledge to empower voters The Conservatives will launch their manifesto on Tuesday by pledging to give people more control of their own lives. |
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| Expenses MPs to receive legal aid Three former Labour MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses win the right to have their legal fees paid. | |
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| Mephedrone ban to come into force Mephedrone is to become illegal from Friday, when it will be classified as a Class B drug, says the Home Office. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Jack Tweed 'in joint rape attack' Jack Tweed, the widower of Jade Goody, raped a teenager at his Essex home at the same time as his friend, a court hears. |
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| New probe into Julie Ward murder Scotland Yard says detectives have been to Kenya as part of a new inquiry into the unsolved 1988 murder of a British woman. | |
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| Teacher denies drunken pupil sex Liverpool Crown Court hears how a classics teacher had sex with a pupil at her home after buying him cider. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Trust apology over double death Two health trusts apologise for "inexcusable failures" surrounding the treatment of a woman who smothered her daughter. |
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| David Ford secures justice job Alliance Party leader David Ford becomes Northern Ireland's first justice minister since 1972. | |
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| Real IRA admits NI MI5 base bomb The Real IRA admits planting a car bomb which exploded outside MI5's Northern Ireland headquarters. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Scots socialists in election push The Scottish Socialist Party is launching its UK election manifesto with a warning that Westminster-imposed cuts will threaten 100,000 Scots jobs. |
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| Man charged with woman's murder A 50-year-old man appears at Tain Sheriff Court accused of murdering a woman in Balintore in the Highlands. | |
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| Da Vinci return 'not suspicious' A solicitor accused of helping to hold a stolen Da Vinci artwork insists no conspiracy was involved in the transaction to return it. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Brown confirms election on 6 May Prime Minister Gordon Brown, flanked by members of his cabinet in Downing Street, calls the UK General Election for 6 May. |
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| Live: General election 2010 Live text and video coverage of all the latest developments as the 2010 general election campaign gets under way. | |
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| Election is 'not two-horse race' Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says the election will not be the usual "two-horse race" between Labour and Conservatives. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | House sellers 'outnumber buyers' The number of people trying to sell their homes in March was at its highest since May 2007, according to surveyors. |
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| Euro surges on Greece debt deal The value of the euro jumps sharply after the eurozone agrees details of a multi-billion loan package to debt-ridden Greece. | |
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| Iceland 'negligent' over banks Icelandic authorities are guilty of "negligence", a scathing report into the causes of the country's banking collapse says. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | LSD inspired Doctor regeneration Doctor Who's regenerations were modelled on bad LSD trips, internal BBC memos released on the BBC Archive reveal. |
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| Radio 4 controller leaves the BBC The controller of Radio 4 and Radio 7, Mark Damazer, leaves the BBC to become head of St Peter's College, Oxford. | |
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| Stars mourn actor Corin Redgrave Stars including Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Trevor Nunn and Simon Callow pay their last respects to actor Corin Redgrave at his funeral in London. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Vote rules out Greenfield return Lady Susan Greenfield's supporters have failed to win a vote which would have paved the way for her return as director of the UK's Royal Institution. |
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| Ice mission turns on instrument The Cryosat radar instrument that will map the Earth's ice cover has been switched on and is reported to be working well. | |
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| Ancient creature's skull probed X-rays show in stunning detail the interior of the skull of a new human-like creature found in South Africa. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Facebook in panic button meeting Facebook is urged to add "panic buttons" to its pages by the head of a British child protection agency at a meeting in Washington DC. |
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| Microsoft debuts 'social' phone Microsoft has unveiled a phone called "Kin" that it claims has been made for those that live their lives online. | |
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| Parties 'failing' to use web well Political parties are making poor use of the internet to engage voters and find out key issues, a survey suggests. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Diets may determine dementia risk Sticking to a diet rich in nuts, fish and vegetables could help ward off dementia, latest research suggests. |
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| High glucose carbs 'a heart risk' Women who eat carbohydrate-rich diets may be at greater risk of heart disease, say researchers. | |
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| Labour pledge on NHS reforms Gordon Brown has confirmed that every NHS hospital in England will become a foundation trust by 2015, or face being taken over. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Brown calls for federated schools Labour is promising that almost one in three secondary schools in England will be part of federated groups of schools - as part of plans to raise standards. |
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| Best comprehensives 'exclusive' A report says some of England's best comprehensives are more exclusive than grammar schools. | |
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| Call to limit college bosses' pay A union calls for college principals' pay to be limited as thousands of jobs in further education colleges are threatened. | |
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| 1975: Beirut street battle leaves 17 dead At least 17 people are killed and 30 wounded in a gun battle between Palestinian guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut. | |||
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| 1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns Neil Kinnock resigns as Labour Party leader blaming the Conservative-backed press for his party's defeat at the general election. | |||
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| 1989: Six killed in West Bank village raid At least six Palestinians have been killed in an early morning raid by Israeli soldiers on an Arab village on the West Bank. | |||
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