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| Monday, 31 August, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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 | Japan's Hatoyama sweeps to power Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is beginning a transition to power after winning a landmark general election. |
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| Courts get 'booze Asbo' powers People who regularly commit crimes or behave anti-socially while drunk can now be served a Drinking Banning Order. | |
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| Prison food 'beats NHS hospitals' Patients in an NHS hospital are more likely to go hungry than people who are locked up in prison, researchers say. | |
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| Lesbians given equal birth rights Lesbian couples can now register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment. | |
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| Firemen die in California inferno Two firefighters die as blazes spread in the hills above Los Angeles, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Japan's Hatoyama sweeps to power Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is beginning a transition to power after winning a landmark general election. |
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| Firemen die in California inferno Two firefighters die as blazes spread in the hills above Los Angeles, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. | |
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| Gun attack kills eight in Mexico Gunmen open fire on a crowd of young people partying in a Mexican seaside town, killing eight, police say. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Counting begins in Gabon election Counting starts in Gabon, where voters are choosing a successor to President Omar Bongo, who died after a 41-year rule. |
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| Deadly train crash hits Cameroon At least five people are killed and more than 275 others injured in a train crash near the capital of Cameroon, Yaounde. | |
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| Italy PM opens North African road Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi opens the first section of a 2,000km North African highway, during a brief visit to Libya. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Police to wrap up Dugard search Police in California say they will soon end the search of the property where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held for 18 years. |
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| Firemen die in California inferno Two firefighters die as blazes spread in the hills above Los Angeles, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. | |
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| Gun attack kills eight in Mexico Gunmen open fire on a crowd of young people partying in a Mexican seaside town, killing eight, police say. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Japan's Hatoyama sweeps to power Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is beginning a transition to power after winning a landmark general election. |
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| Dalai Lama sees Taiwan storm area The Dalai Lama heading to Taiwan's typhoon-damaged areas in a visit Beijing says it "resolutely opposes". | |
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| General Motors expands in China GM signs up to a joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW to make light trucks and vans. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Italy PM opens North African road Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi opens the first section of a 2,000km North African highway, during a brief visit to Libya. |
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| Merkel faces state poll setbacks Early results in state polls in Germany suggest a setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel a month before general elections. | |
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| UN tackles climate change effects A UN conference in Geneva is to discuss ways of coping with the effects of climate change, such as floods and drought. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Former Israeli PM Olmert charged Israeli ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is indicted in three cases of corruption, the attorney general's office says. |
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| Italy PM opens North African road Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi opens the first section of a 2,000km North African highway, during a brief visit to Libya. | |
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| Ahmadinejad defiant on ministers Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defends his cabinet choices as parliament debates his nominations. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Pakistan blast 'kills 14 cadets' A suspected suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Swat valley has killed at least 14 police recruits, officials say. |
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| Afghan election fraud probe grows Election officials in Afghanistan say they have received more than 560 major allegations of fraud from the 20 August vote. | |
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| UK Chinook damaged in Afghanistan Military personnel deliberately destroy an RAF Chinook helicopter after it was badly damaged in a "hard landing" in Helmand province. | |
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| UK | |
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 | Courts get 'booze Asbo' powers People who regularly commit crimes or behave anti-socially while drunk can now be served a Drinking Banning Order. |
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| Lesbians given equal birth rights Lesbian couples can now register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment. | |
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| Prison food 'beats NHS hospitals' Patients in an NHS hospital are more likely to go hungry than people who are locked up in prison, researchers say. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Girl found strangled in lorry A girl's body is found in a lorry shortly before detectives find a man hanged in a nearby wood in Northamptonshire. |
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| Sex offender absconds from unit A sex offender considered to be a danger to women and children absconds from a psychiatric unit in West Yorkshire. | |
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| Guitarist death to be re-examined The death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is to be reviewed following new evidence. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Cave Hill fall teenager critical A teenage girl suffers severe head injuries after falling about 20 metres from Belfast's Cave Hill. |
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| Man, 18, dies after road accident An 18-year-old man dies after being hit by a car just outside Cushendall in County Antrim in the early hours of the morning. | |
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| Flats blaze suspicious - police A fire at a block of flats in Craigavon from which four people were rescued, is being treated as suspicious by police. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Megrahi trade deal untrue - Straw The justice secretary says fresh reports that the Lockerbie bomber's release was linked to Libya trade talks are untrue. |
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| Superbug screening for patients Every patient going to hospital for an operation in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area will be screened for MRSA by the end of the year. | |
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| Trust's membership hits new high Membership of the conservation charity National Trust for Scotland reaches its highest ever level. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | 'Shock' of woman hurt by roller A woman taken to hospital with head injuries after being crushed by a lawn roller as she slept in a tent, speaks of her shock at the incident. |
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| Arrest after fatal row at wedding A man is in police custody after a 26-year-old man died of head injuries following a row at a hotel. | |
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| Armed robber threatens shop staff Police appeal for information after a man threatened staff at a shop with a kitchen knife before making off with cash. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Megrahi trade deal untrue - Straw The justice secretary says fresh reports that the Lockerbie bomber's release was linked to Libya trade talks are untrue. |
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| Darling predicts end of recession The chancellor reiterates his view that the UK will join other leading economies and move out of recession by the turn of the year. | |
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| MP backs more Afghanistan troops Sending more UK troops to Afghanistan could save lives, Tory MP Patrick Mercer says after Gordon Brown visits the country. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Repossession advice site launched The government launches a a series of online videos and articles for people who face having their home repossessed. |
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| Turner defends bank tax comments Lord Turner, the boss of the UK's financial watchdog, defends his comments about the introduction of a new tax on banks. | |
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| General Motors expands in China GM signs up to a joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW to make light trucks and vans. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | TV chat show star Simon Dee dies Simon Dee, one of the biggest stars on British TV and radio in the Swinging Sixties, dies of cancer at the age of 74. |
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| Radiohead delight with classics Radiohead delight the crowd at Reading with some of their old classics in the second of two weekend festival shows. | |
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| Guitarist death to be re-examined The death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is to be reviewed following new evidence. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | India loses Moon satellite links All communication links with the only Indian satellite orbiting the Moon are lost, India's space agency says. |
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| Shuttle Discovery arrives at ISS Space shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station for a nine-day stay, carrying scientific equipment. | |
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| Single molecule's stunning image Researchers have imaged single molecules in unprecedented detail, showing the chemical bonds that hold them together. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Olympic aim to get Britons online The UK's Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox lays out a challenge to those already online to train those not on the internet. |
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| Apple denies 'exploding' iPhones iPhones that reportedly "exploded" in France were not due to overheating batteries as had been suggested, Apple says. | |
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| File-sharers' TV tastes revealed Millions of television viewers are now using file-sharing services to illegally download TV programmes, research shows. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Prison food 'beats NHS hospitals' Patients in an NHS hospital are more likely to go hungry than people who are locked up in prison, researchers say. |
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| Many not applying for free drugs Nearly two thirds of the cancer patients in England have not applied for free medicines, five months after the scheme started. | |
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| 'Cancer hope' from WWII-era drug One of the earliest chemotherapy drugs appears to work against a genetic fault that triggers a form of bowel and other cancers. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Bright pupils 'miss out' on place About 40,000 well-qualified school leavers are likely to be turned away from university this year, a think tank warns. |
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| Families miss free school meals A fifth of low-income families are not aware they could claim for free school meals, suggests a survey. | |
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| More parents pay for appeals help A growing number of parents in England and Wales are using legal advice to get children into their preferred state school. | |
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| 1997: Princess Diana dies in Paris crash Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed after her car crashes in a Paris underpass - the driver and her friend Dodi Fayed are also dead. | |||
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| 1994: IRA declares 'complete' ceasefire The IRA announces a "complete cessation of military operations" after 25 years of bombing and killing. | |||
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| 1959: Anglo-US TV debate makes history British prime minister Harold Macmillan and American president Dwight Eisenhower give an historic live television broadcast from Downing Street. | |||
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