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| Sunday, 02 August, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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 | UK troops 'given too many tasks' UK troops are suffering "mission creep" in Afghanistan and should focus solely on security, a report from MPs says. |
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| Praying man let his daughter die A US court finds a man guilty of killing his ill 11-year-old daughter by praying for her rather than seeking treatment. | |
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| Facebook criticised by Archbishop Social networking sites, texting and e-mails undermine community life, Roman Catholic leader Archbishop Vincent Nichols says. | |
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| Universities 'fail on standards' Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, while the system for ensuring quality is out of date, MPs say. | |
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| Mandelson urges Labour fightback Lord Mandelson says Labour must "roll its sleeves up" and take on the Tories and not hand them election victory "on a plate". | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Gunman attacks Israeli gay centre A lone gunman kills two people and wounds 10 at a gay support centre in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before escaping. |
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| Castro says Cuban system to stay Cuban President Raul Castro says he is willing to talk with the US, but Cuba's communist system will remain in place. | |
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| Praying man let his daughter die A US court finds a man guilty of killing his ill 11-year-old daughter by praying for her rather than seeking treatment. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Scale of Nigerian unrest emerges A military commander in the city at the centre of recent Nigerian violence says around 700 bodies were found there alone. |
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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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 | Judge jails 15 Colombian soldiers A Colombian judge sentences 15 soldiers to up to 30 years in prison for killing civilians that they presented as rebels. |
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| Praying man let his daughter die A US court finds a man guilty of killing his ill 11-year-old daughter by praying for her rather than seeking treatment. | |
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| Castro says Cuban system to stay Cuban President Raul Castro says he is willing to talk with the US, but Cuba's communist system will remain in place. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Filipinos pay respects to Aquino Hundreds gather to pay their respects to former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who died on Saturday. |
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| Protest at Malaysia security law Thousands of people demonstrate in the Malaysian capital against a controversial law allowing detention without trial. | |
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| Hidden Gobi Desert relics found Rare Buddhist artefacts hidden in the Gobi Desert for seven decades are found by Austrian-Mongolian treasure hunters. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | EU reaches gas deal with Ukraine The EU and international institutions agree a deal with Ukraine to help it provide stable supplies of Russian gas to Europe. |
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| New Mozart pieces to be performed Two newly discovered piano pieces by Mozart are to be played for the first time in the city of his birth, Salzburg. | |
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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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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Gunman attacks Israeli gay centre A lone gunman kills two people and wounds 10 at a gay support centre in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before escaping. |
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| Iran reformers slate trial 'sham' Iran's biggest reformist party dismisses the court appearance of leading opposition figures as a "show trial". | |
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| US concern as Iran holds tourists The US says it is doing all it can to aid three Americans arrested inside Iran after apparently straying across the Iraqi border. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| UK troops 'given too many tasks' UK troops are suffering "mission creep" in Afghanistan and should focus solely on security, a report from MPs says. |
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| Pakistan Christians die in unrest Six Christians are killed in unrest in central Pakistan, after days of tension sparked by the rumoured desecration of a Koran. | |
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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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| UK | |
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| UK troops 'given too many tasks' UK troops are suffering "mission creep" in Afghanistan and should focus solely on security, a report from MPs says. |
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| Universities 'fail on standards' Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, while the system for ensuring quality is out of date, MPs say. | |
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| Facebook criticised by Archbishop Social networking sites, texting and e-mails undermine community life, Roman Catholic leader Archbishop Vincent Nichols says. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | 'Questions remain' in Baby P case Serious questions remain over the circumstances which led to the death of Baby Peter two years ago, an MP says. |
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| Universities 'fail on standards' Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, while the system for ensuring quality is out of date, MPs say. | |
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| 'Blasphemy' row over erotic shots A photographer is accused of blasphemy after taking a set of pictures without permission at a Cornish church. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Fire at town pub treated as arson A fire which extensively damaged a pub in Strabane, County Tyrone, is being treated as arson by police. |
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| Thousands out for city gay parade Thousands of people have turned out for the 19th annual Gay Pride parade through Belfast city centre. | |
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| Drugs haul is seized in city raid A substantial quantity of ecstasy tablets is seized by police following the search of a property in north Belfast. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Lost fisherman search to resume A search operation is due to resume after a man was swept away while fishing on the River Tay in Perth and Kinross. |
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| SNP urge end to child detentions Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy is urged to stop children being held at the Dungavel detention centre. | |
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| Fire chiefs back safer cigarettes Fire chiefs back a campaign to introduce "fire safe" cigarettes, which go out quickly if unattended, across Scotland. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Judges rule on child discipline Appeal Court judges say a girl who was kicked and slapped by her parents did not suffer "significant harm" and can return home. |
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| Woman arrested after body found Police arrest a woman and appeal for information after the body of a 34-year-old man is discovered near a river. | |
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| Hunt after 'Valley Boy' stabbing A bare-chested robber with a "Valley Boy" tattoo attacks and stabs a teenager after knocking on his door. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| UK troops 'given too many tasks' UK troops are suffering "mission creep" in Afghanistan and should focus solely on security, a report from MPs says. |
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| Mandelson urges Labour fightback Lord Mandelson says Labour must "roll its sleeves up" and take on the Tories and not hand them election victory "on a plate". | |
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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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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Bank reform 'needs to be radical' The highest paid bankers should be revealed and the reform of the banking system made more radical, the city minister says. |
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| Graduates to get gap-year money The government is to pay for hundreds of graduates struggling to find a job to go on expeditions abroad. | |
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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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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Warhol's Jackson goes to auction A portrait by Andy Warhol of the late singer Michael Jackson, commissioned to mark Thriller's record sales, is set to be auctioned in New York . |
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| Briers 'reveals last stage role' Richard Briers has announced "my last role on stage", starring in Samuel Beckett's Endgame in London's West End. | |
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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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| 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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| Experts puzzled by spot on Venus Astronomers have been puzzled by a strange bright spot which has appeared in the clouds of Venus. | |
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| Fire risk 'super' ants discovered Ants believed to have a "fatal attraction" to electricity are found at a National Trust property in Gloucestershire. | |
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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 fix to iPhone security flaw Apple releases a software patch 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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 | Daily alcohol limit 'unhelpful' Daily limits on alcohol consumption devised by the government are unhelpful and potentially harmful, warn experts. |
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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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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Universities 'fail on standards' Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, while the system for ensuring quality is out of date, MPs say. |
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| Graduates to get gap-year money The government is to pay for hundreds of graduates struggling to find a job to go on expeditions abroad. | |
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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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| 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invade the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning. | |||
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| 1980: Bologna blast leaves dozens dead A huge bomb devastates Bologna railway station, killing at least 75 people. | |||
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| 1973: Dozens die in resort fire More than 30 people die in a fire which gutted the Summerland leisure resort on the Isle of Man. | |||
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