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| Saturday, 22 August, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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 | Trade 'link' to bomber's release The Lockerbie bomber's release was raised during trade talks between the UK and Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's son reportedly tells Libyan TV. |
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| Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected' The chairman of state-backed Lloyds Banking Group says it was taken by surprise by the level of losses at HBOS. | |
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| Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry' The US army officer convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam offers his first public apology. | |
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| UK soldier died helping comrade A British soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan was trying to save his comrade who had been caught in an earlier blast. | |
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| North and South Korea hold talks The first meeting between North and South Korean officials in nearly two years takes place unexpectedly in Seoul. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Trade 'link' to bomber's release The Lockerbie bomber's release was raised during trade talks between the UK and Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's son reportedly tells Libyan TV. |
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| North and South Korea hold talks The first meeting between North and South Korean officials in nearly two years takes place unexpectedly in Seoul. | |
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| Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry' The US army officer convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam offers his first public apology. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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| Trade 'link' to bomber's release The Lockerbie bomber's release was raised during trade talks between the UK and Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's son reportedly tells Libyan TV. |
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| Birth certificate backs SA gender The mother of 800m runner Caster Semenya shows the BBC her daughter's birth certificate, showing the athlete is female. | |
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| Supermodel fears over Gabon vote Gabonese supermodel Gloria Mika tells the BBC she fears possible violence if polls in the West African nation are not free. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Libya warned over Lockerbie man The US and UK rebuke Tripoli over the welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber after his release from prison. |
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| Brazil calls Obama over US bases Brazil's leader calls on the US president to meet regional leaders to calm fears about the US military presence in Colombia. | |
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| Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry' The US army officer convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam offers his first public apology. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | North and South Korea hold talks The first meeting between North and South Korean officials in nearly two years takes place unexpectedly in Seoul. |
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| NZ votes against child smack ban New Zealanders vote by a wide margin to allow parents to smack their children, two years after a law banned discipline by force. | |
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| Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry' The US army officer convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam offers his first public apology. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Putin vows Siberia compensation Russian PM Vladimir Putin promises relatives of victims of a power plant explosion 1m roubles ($30,000) each in compensation. |
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| Slovakia blocks Hungarian visit Slovakia's government bans the Hungarian president from making a controversial visit to Slovakia. | |
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| Hungary arrests over Roma murders Hungarian police detain four men suspected of attacks on Roma settlements in which six people were killed. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Libya warned over Lockerbie man The US and UK rebuke Tripoli over the welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber after his release from prison. |
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| Iran 'minister' on Interpol list Iran's defence minister-designate is on Interpol's "wanted" list over a 1994 bombing in Argentina, the agency confirms. | |
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| Baghdad market struck by bombing A lorry bomb explodes at the entrance to a market in Baghdad as officials meet to discuss the spike in violent attacks. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Obama praises Afghans for voting US President Barack Obama praises Afghans for holding their presidential election but warns of further Taliban violence. |
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| Sri Lanka to train Pakistani army Sri Lanka's army says it will offer training in counter-insurgency to members of the Pakistani military. | |
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| India to import food amid drought India will import food as shortages caused by drought hit up to 700 million people, the finance minister says. | |
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| UK | |
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| Trade 'link' to bomber's release The Lockerbie bomber's release was raised during trade talks between the UK and Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's son reportedly tells Libyan TV. |
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| UK soldier died helping comrade A British soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan was trying to save his comrade who had been caught in an earlier blast. | |
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| Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected' The chairman of state-backed Lloyds Banking Group says it was taken by surprise by the level of losses at HBOS. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Youth worker sexually abused boys A 70-year-old man is jailed for 13 years for abusing boys at a youth foundation he ran in Norfolk. |
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| Seven charged over Iraq protest Seven people are charged over a protest at an Iraq war parade in Bedfordshire and 12 others over a later disturbance. | |
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| Singer falls into orchestra pit An opera singer is taken to hospital as a precaution after she falls into the orchestra pit during a performance at Glyndebourne. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Minor trouble at loyalist march A loyalist band parade in a County Antrim village ends without major incident despite raised tensions in the area. |
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| Woman with swine flu dies in NI A woman who had been diagnosed with swine flu dies in hospital in Northern Ireland earlier this week. | |
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| Search for boy enters third day The search for the 14-year-old boy missing in a County Down river is called off for the night and resumes on Saturday. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | PM requested bomber 'sensitivity' Gordon Brown had asked Libya to "act with sensitivity" as it welcomed the returning Lockerbie bomber to Tripoli, it emerges. |
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| Sporting village off and running The new state-of-the-art £28m Aberdeen Sports Village fires its starting gun for the public on Saturday with an open day. | |
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| Missing north beaches put on map Ordnance Survey to improve accuracy of one of its map sheets after blogs about a missing stretch of beaches. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Hunt for teenager missing in sea The search for a boy reported swept out to sea at a south Wales holiday resort is scaled down until the morning. |
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| First 'swine flu' death in Wales A woman has become the first person in Wales to die after contracting swine flu and developing complications. | |
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| Police watchdog's case concerns The head of the police watchdog body in Wales says he wants to ensure reports of domestic violence are handled properly. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| PM requested bomber 'sensitivity' Gordon Brown had asked Libya to "act with sensitivity" as it welcomed the returning Lockerbie bomber to Tripoli, it emerges. |
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| Widdecombe attacks MP selection Ann Widdecombe says David Cameron's changes to the way Tory candidates are selected will mean more "second-class citizens" become MPs. | |
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| Anti-Kirkbride campaigner sacked A civil servant behind a campaign which led to Tory MP Julie Kirkbride stepping down over her expenses is sacked. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected' The chairman of state-backed Lloyds Banking Group says it was taken by surprise by the level of losses at HBOS. |
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| Markets rise on US recovery hopes Markets rise after the head of the US central bank says the world's biggest economy is nearing the start of a recovery. | |
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| £41m fraud hits building society The Chelsea Building Society has revealed it has lost £41m as a result of mortgage fraud involving some of its buy-to-let borrowers. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Michael Jackson's burial delayed The pop star's remains will be buried in Los Angeles on 3 September - not 29 August as had been announced, a family spokesman says. |
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| Public vote out Big Brother's Bea Bea Hamill becomes the latest contestant to be evicted from the Big Brother House. | |
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| Singer falls into orchestra pit An opera singer is taken to hospital as a precaution after she falls into the orchestra pit during a performance at Glyndebourne. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Brighter idea for bendy displays Flexible and bright transparent displays based on inorganic LEDs outpace their organic LED cousins, researchers say. |
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| Glowing 'bomber worms' discovered Newly discovered glowing ocean worms release tiny green bombs to distract their predators, according to scientists. | |
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| Bizarre newt uses ribs as weapons Scientists discover how one amphibian deters attackers by unsheathing its bare rib bones, using them as poisonous spears. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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| Brighter idea for bendy displays Flexible and bright transparent displays based on inorganic LEDs outpace their organic LED cousins, researchers say. |
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| Microsoft previews new controller Microsoft allows the public to get their hands on its new, hands-free games controller, dubbed Natal, for the first time. | |
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| Tech giants unite against Google Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon will join a coalition to fight Google's efforts to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Poor 'lacking lung cancer help' The most deprived people in the UK are least likely to receive treatment when they get lung cancer, say researchers. |
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| Flu drugs 'not needed' in healthy The World Health Organization has said healthy patients who catch swine flu do not need to be treated with Tamiflu. | |
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| Expert cancer teams in A&E call Every accident and emergency department should have a specialist cancer team to make patient care safer, say government advisors. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Scramble for university places Teenagers who failed to get their first choices for university are rushing to find courses through clearing. |
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| Record top A-level grades awarded A record-breaking 26.7% of A-level entries for England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been awarded A grades. | |
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| Achievements mask school divide The proportion of A grades in this year's A-levels has risen the most in independent schools. | |
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| 1978: Kenya's founding father dies The Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta, dies aged 89 at his home in Mombasa. | |||
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| 1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics Rhodesia is thrown out of the Olympic Games with just four days to go before the opening ceremony in the German city of Munich. | |||
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| 1986: Police chief cleared of misconduct Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police John Stalker is cleared of misconduct. | |||
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