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| Thursday, 03 September, 2009, 5:00 GMT 24:00 -05:00:US/Central |
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 | Keep spending, Darling urges G20 G20 nations must continue spending to ensure the global economy returns to sustainable growth, the chancellor says. |
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| NHS workforce cuts plan rejected The government says it has rejected proposals to cut the NHS workforce in England by 10% over the next five years. | |
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| Music videos return to UK YouTube Music videos are back on YouTube in the UK after the streaming site reaches a deal with songwriters. | |
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| Helmand attack kills UK soldier A British soldier was killed on Wednesday by an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. | |
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| SNP to outline referendum plans Scotland's first minister is to outline plans for an independence referendum as part of the SNP's third legislative session. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Indonesia quake toll set to rise The death toll from Wednesday's earthquake in Indonesia is likely to rise as rescuers search through collapsed buildings. |
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| Somali camps 'unfit for humans' Somali refugee camps are overcrowded, badly managed and barely fit for humans, says aid agency Oxfam. | |
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| Galaxy's 'cannibalism' revealed The vast Andromeda galaxy has expanded by consuming stars from smaller galaxies, research shows. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Somali camps 'unfit for humans' Somali refugee camps are overcrowded, badly managed and barely fit for humans, says aid agency Oxfam. |
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| Nigerian 'trained in Afghanistan' A member of the Nigerian sect behind July's Islamist uprising confesses to training in Afghanistan, police say. | |
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| Many homeless in Burkina deluge Severe flooding in Burkina Faso leaves the government struggling to cope with 150,000 homeless people. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Madoff fraud probes 'a failure' The US financial watchdog mishandled probes into convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff's business, an investigation finds. |
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| Gunmen kill Mexico police deputy Gunmen shoot dead the deputy police chief in the Mexican state of Michoacan, in a brazen attack near police headquarters. | |
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| Garrido's wife 'misses children' Phillip Garrido's wife says she misses the two daughters her husband fathered with Jaycee Lee Dugard, who they are accused of kidnapping. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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| Indonesia quake toll set to rise The death toll from Wednesday's earthquake in Indonesia is likely to rise as rescuers search through collapsed buildings. |
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| Reporters describe N Korea ordeal Two US journalists jailed for illegally entering North Korea speak out about what happened, saying they were arrested on Chinese soil. | |
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| Wife of Taiwan's ex-leader jailed The wife of Taiwan's former president, Chen Shui-bian, has been sentenced to a year in jail for perjury. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Greece's PM calls snap election Greece's Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis calls a snap general election in a TV address, to "seek a fresh political mandate". |
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| EU plans to admit more refugees The European Commission wants to allow more refugees fleeing war and poverty into the EU - partly to curb illegal immigration. | |
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| Epic Sicilian film opens Venice Italian movie Baaria opens the 66th Venice Film Festival, with Taiwan's Ang Lee heading the competition panel. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Iraq bank raiders to be hanged Four security force members are given death sentences for a bank robbery in Baghdad in which eight guards were killed. |
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| Bid to identify Iraq hostage body Forensic experts in Iraq are working to identify a body thought to belong to one of five Britons seized in Baghdad in 2007. | |
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| Ancient wall found in Jerusalem A 3,700-year-old wall has been discovered in east Jerusalem, the region's earliest fortifications, Israeli archaeologists say. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | India minister helicopter 'found' A helicopter carrying a powerful Indian politician which disappeared during a flight in southern India on Wednesday is located, officials say. |
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| Blast kills top Afghan official A suicide bomb attack east of Kabul kills Afghanistan's deputy chief of intelligence and at least 22 other people, officials say. | |
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| Pakistani religion minister shot Pakistan's minister for religious affairs is wounded and his driver killed in an attack in Islamabad. | |
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| UK | |
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| Keep spending, Darling urges G20 G20 nations must continue spending to ensure the global economy returns to sustainable growth, the chancellor says. |
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| Helmand attack kills UK soldier A British soldier was killed on Wednesday by an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. | |
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| Music videos return to UK YouTube Music videos are back on YouTube in the UK after the streaming site reaches a deal with songwriters. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Sixth man charged over £40m raid A sixth man is due in court charged over the £40m robbery at a jewellery store in central London. |
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| NHS failings on cannibal detailed Two reports are due into how the NHS handled a schizophrenic who killed two men after release from a secure hospital. | |
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| Jobs boost with new Mini models Two new Mini models are to be built at the BMW plant in Oxfordshire creating up to 1,000 jobs, sources suggest. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | PSNI is asked to make £17m cuts The Policing Board reacts angrily to a government demand to cut £17m from the PSNI budget next year. |
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| Detective 'could not trust team' The Robert Hamill inquiry hears that the RUC officer in charge of the murder investigation could not trust all his officers. | |
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| 500 students disciplined in year The University of Ulster and Queen's say over 500 of their students were disciplined for anti-social behaviour last year. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | SNP to outline referendum plans Scotland's first minister is to outline plans for an independence referendum as part of the SNP's third legislative session. |
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| SNP defeated over bomber release The Scottish Government has suffered a defeat in the Holyrood parliament over its handling of the Lockerbie bomber case. | |
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| Study warns of 'age of austerity' Economists from Glasgow University predict a new 'age of austerity' for public sector budgets decline over the next five years. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Murder accused's 'money worries' A court hears a driver accused of killing his boss said the impending repossession of his home drove him to a confrontation. |
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| Iraq body feared to be UK hostage A body believed to be that of a British hostage seized in Baghdad in 2007 has been passed to Iraqi authorities. | |
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| Driving ban for singer's mother The mother of Sound of Music star Connie Fisher is banned from driving after refusing to provide a breath test. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Keep spending, Darling urges G20 G20 nations must continue spending to ensure the global economy returns to sustainable growth, the chancellor says. |
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| SNP to outline referendum plans Scotland's first minister is to outline plans for an independence referendum as part of the SNP's third legislative session. | |
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| No bomber release cover-up - PM Prime Minister Gordon Brown says there was "no conspiracy, no cover-up" over the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Madoff fraud probes 'a failure' The US financial watchdog mishandled probes into convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff's business, an investigation finds. |
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| Keep spending, Darling urges G20 G20 nations must continue spending to ensure the global economy returns to sustainable growth, the chancellor says. | |
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| Music videos return to UK YouTube Music videos are back on YouTube in the UK after the streaming site reaches a deal with songwriters. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Music videos return to UK YouTube Music videos are back on YouTube in the UK after the streaming site reaches a deal with songwriters. |
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| Epic Sicilian film opens Venice Italian movie Baaria opens the 66th Venice Film Festival, with Taiwan's Ang Lee heading the competition panel. | |
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| TV presenter jailed for two years A former BBC TV presenter who hit a teenager with a wooden pole outside a Birmingham bar is jailed for two years. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Galaxy's 'cannibalism' revealed The vast Andromeda galaxy has expanded by consuming stars from smaller galaxies, research shows. |
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| Climate targets 'will kill coral' Targets being debated in UN climate talks are not enough to save reefs, which are worth over $100bn annually, says a report. | |
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| We're all mutants, say scientists We all have at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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| Music videos return to UK YouTube Music videos are back on YouTube in the UK after the streaming site reaches a deal with songwriters. |
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| Intel boss sees end to PC slump The PC industry is coming out of recession, says Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini. | |
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| Jail threat for donkey bloggers Two Azerbaijani bloggers face up to five years' jail after posting a video of a donkey giving a news conference. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | NHS workforce cuts plan rejected The government says it has rejected proposals to cut the NHS workforce in England by 10% over the next five years. |
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| 'Crisis' over terminally-ill care Official guidelines are causing a crisis in the care of terminally ill people, a group of medical experts say. | |
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| Child obesity drug use 'soaring' The number of youngsters in the UK being prescribed weight-loss drugs has risen 15-fold in recent years, a study suggests. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Trial of free school meals starts All primary school children in two areas of England are entitled to free lunches this term as part of a £40m, two-year trial. |
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| Teachers' workloads 'not reduced' Reforms aimed at easing teachers' burdens have been undermined by new initiatives, research says. | |
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| Brown expands youth jobs scheme The government is pledging a further 85,000 'opportunities' to help get young people into work, in industries such as in retail, tourism and hospitality. | |
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| 2004: Russian school siege ends in violence More than 200 people die after a three-day siege at a Russian school came to a bloody end. | |||
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| 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago. | |||
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| 1998: All feared dead in Swissair crash A Swissair plane flying from New York to Geneva crashes in the sea off the coast of Nova Scotia, just over an hour after taking off. | |||
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