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| Saturday, 01 August, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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 | Cap on junior doctor hours starts European rules limiting trainee doctors from working more than 48 hours a week have come into force. |
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| Philippine ex-leader Aquino dies Philippine ex-President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, who led the "people power" revolution against Ferdinand Marcos, dies at 76. | |
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| US file-sharer gets $700,000 fine A US student is told to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to record labels for breaking copyright laws after sharing music online. | |
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| Al-Qaeda supporters 'joined MI5' A senior Conservative MP asks the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5. | |
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| MPs 'back' new immigration system MPs say the new points-based immigration system is working well, but concerns remain about the time taken to process visas. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Philippine ex-leader Aquino dies Philippine ex-President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, who led the "people power" revolution against Ferdinand Marcos, dies at 76. |
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| Obama sees US economy improving Barack Obama says new figures on the US economy indicate progress is being made in tackling the country's problems. | |
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| US tourists 'being held by Iran' The US is checking reports that three American tourists were detained by Iranians while near the northern Iraqi border. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria row over militant killing Nigeria's army and police disagree over whether the leader of an Islamist sect was still alive when he was captured. |
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| South African workers end strike A deal is reached to end a week-long strike over pay by some 150,000 municipal workers in South Africa, unions say. | |
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| 'Dire shortage' at UN food agency The United Nations food agency says critical shortages force it to slash delivery to millions of starving people. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Obama sees US economy improving Barack Obama says new figures on the US economy indicate progress is being made in tackling the country's problems. |
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| Venezuelan election law approved Venezuela's National Assembly passes an election law that critics say will benefit President Hugo Chavez's party. | |
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| Former boxer Gatti's body exhumed The body of Brazilian boxing champion Arturo Gatti is exhumed for a second autopsy at his family's request. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Philippine ex-leader Aquino dies Philippine ex-President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, who led the "people power" revolution against Ferdinand Marcos, dies at 76. |
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| Taiwan curbs foreign bride firms A new law is coming into effect in Taiwan to ban commercial matchmaking companies from brokering international marriages. | |
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| Safety fears spark Honda recall Japanese carmaker Honda announces it is recalling 440,000 vehicles in the US due to an airbag defect. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Funeral held for Spain bomb dead Two policemen killed by a car bomb on the Spanish island of Majorca are laid to rest as police appeal for help. |
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| Al-Qaeda supporters 'joined MI5' A senior Conservative MP asks the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5. | |
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| Italy PM 'offered escort EU seat' The escort at the centre of a sex scandal involving Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says he offered her a seat in the European Parliament. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Deadly blasts hit Baghdad mosques At least 29 people are killed in a series of bombings outside Shia mosques in Baghdad, Iraqi police report. |
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| US tourists 'being held by Iran' The US is checking reports that three American tourists were detained by Iranians while near the northern Iraqi border. | |
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| Israel says Gaza war 'necessary' An Israeli government report says that the Israeli military campaign in Gaza earlier this year was necessary and proportionate. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | US pledge to reduce Afghan deaths The new US commander in Afghanistan vows to work to reduce civilian deaths after a UN report showed they had risen. |
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| Report highlights hunger in India A report by an Indian campaign group says India is emerging as the world centre of hunger and malnutrition. | |
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| Musharraf emergency 'unlawful' Pakistan's Supreme Court rules that emergency rule enforced by former President Pervez Musharraf is unconstitutional and illegal. | |
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| UK | |
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| Cap on junior doctor hours starts European rules limiting trainee doctors from working more than 48 hours a week have come into force. |
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| Al-Qaeda supporters 'joined MI5' A senior Conservative MP asks the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5. | |
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| 'Fake UK sites' trick consumers Trading standards officers say consumers are being tricked into buying fake goods by companies pretending to be based in the UK. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Sit-in workers 'starvation' claim A union complains to police amid claims workers occupying an Isle of Wight wind turbine factory are having their rights breached. |
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| Mother appeals for girl's return Police continue to search for a 14-year-old girl from Lincolnshire thought to have run away with a man she met on the internet. | |
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| Football honours Sir Bobby Robson Leading figures from the world of football pay tribute to Sir Bobby Robson, who has died aged 76 after a long battle with cancer. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Police DPP disruption 'juvenile' Dissident republicans who disrupted a DPP meeting in Londonderry behaved in a "juvenile" way, police say. |
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| Charge dropped in footballer case Counterfeit currency charges against Linfield footballer William Murphy have been dropped. | |
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| Child escapes abduction attempt A man tries to abduct a seven-year-old girl from the garden of a house in the Banbridge area of County Down. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Doctor concerns over work limits Concerns are raised that not all of the National Health Service in Scotland is ready to cope with new limits on working hours. |
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| Daughter guilty of killing mother A woman and her boyfriend are guilty of killing her mother and dumping her body in a burn in Ayrshire. | |
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| 'Frenzied' killer held for life A teenager who inflicted 142 separate injuries on his victim during a frenzied knife killing is locked up for life. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Hartson is 'gradually improving' Doctors treating former footballer John Hartson for testicular, brain and lung cancer say he is no longer critically ill and may start chemotherapy next week. |
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| Arrest over shopping centre death Police make an arrest following the death of a 23-year-old man who was restrained by shopping centre security staff. | |
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| 'No regrets' over euthanasia aid A man who is on police bail over the planned suicide of his partner says the legal uncertainty is 'like a black cloud'. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | MPs 'back' new immigration system MPs say the new points-based immigration system is working well, but concerns remain about the time taken to process visas. |
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| New questions over 'torture' case The government comes under renewed pressure to disclose what it knew about a UK resident who says he was tortured. | |
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| Bank reform 'needs to be radical' A review of how banks are governed has not been radical enough, City Minister Lord Myners tells the BBC. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Bank reform 'needs to be radical' A review of how banks are governed has not been radical enough, City Minister Lord Myners tells the BBC. |
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| UK savers get £21bn compensation The cost of reimbursing UK savers in the first six months of the credit crisis was £21bn, the official compensation body says. | |
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| Safety fears spark Honda recall Japanese carmaker Honda announces it is recalling 440,000 vehicles in the US due to an airbag defect. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | US model is mother of Law's child US model Samantha Burke is the mother of actor Jude Law's unborn fourth child, his publicist confirms. |
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| Andre accepts damages from paper Peter Andre accepts "substantial" damages over a newspaper claim he was unfaithful to estranged wife Katie Price. | |
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| Peas break Billboard chart record Black Eyed Peas set a new record for the longest successive stay at the top of the US singles chart by a duo or group. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Space shuttle touches down safely US space shuttle Endeavour successfully lands at Florida's Kennedy Space Center at the end of a 16-day mission. |
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| Images reveal 'lost' Roman city Aerial photographs reveal a lost Roman city called Altinum - which some scholars regard as a forerunner of Venice. | |
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| Fresh hope for world's fisheries There is fresh hope that the world's depleted fisheries can be saved from collapse, say researchers. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | US file-sharer gets $700,000 fine A US student is told to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to record labels for breaking copyright laws after sharing music online. |
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| Apple to fix iPhone security flaw Apple will release a software patch on Saturday to address a recently exposed security flaw in the iPhone. | |
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| Firefox passes billion milestone The open-source web browser Firefox has been downloaded more than a billion times in its five-year history. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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| Cap on junior doctor hours starts European rules limiting trainee doctors from working more than 48 hours a week have come into force. |
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| Private transplants to be banned The government is to ban private transplants of organs from dead donors after concerns foreign patients pay to jump the queue. | |
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| Call for debate on suicide laws Campaigner Debbie Purdy calls for an "open debate" on assisted suicide laws, as prosecutors work on clarifying the legal position. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Bad teens 'not fault of parents' Parents are spending more time with their children - and researchers find no evidence of a decline in parenting. |
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| Schools exclude pupils less often The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions from England's schools has fallen, statistics show. | |
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| New Zealand votes on smacking ban New Zealanders have the chance to vote on whether parental smacking of children should remain a criminal offence. | |
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| 1976: Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash F1 racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital after crashing at the German Grand Prix. | |||
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| 1944: Uprising to free Warsaw begins The Polish Underground Army begins battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European city to fall to the Germans. | |||
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| 1971: Apollo 15 finds rock from birth of Moon Astronauts uncover a rock which may date back to the origin of the Moon. | |||
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