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EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban
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2 hours 12 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:43 GMT
EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
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Body found in missing mother hunt
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1 hours 59 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:58 GMT
Police searching for a Dundee mother-of-three who went missing two weeks ago believe they have found her body.
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Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon (1-2)
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1 hours 28 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:52 GMT
Real Madrid crash out of the Champions League to Lyon 2-1 on aggregate after being held 1-1 at the Bernabeu.
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Biden: U.S. won't play Mideast favorites
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2 hours 4 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:38 GMT
The United States will hold both Israel and the Palestinians responsible for any steps that make peace between them more difficult, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
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Man Utd 4-0 AC Milan (agg 7-2)
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1 hours 34 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:03 GMT
Wayne Rooney scores twice in another irresistible display as Manchester United ease into the Champions League quarter-finals at AC Milan's expense.
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Lloyds posts £6.3bn loss for 2009
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12 days 15 hours 47 minutes ago
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:22:16 GMT
Lloyds Banking Group reports an operating loss of £6.3bn for 2009, after struggling with billions of pounds of bad loans.
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Biden scolds Israel over settlement plan
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3 hours 15 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:54:54 GMT
Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks.
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Joy and anger as Stormont says Yes in powderkeg policing vote
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
THE Northern Ireland Assembly's decision to agree to devolved policing and justice powers will build on the gains of the peace process, the British and Irish governments s
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Triple suicide puts pressure on PM over asylum seekers
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
GORDON Brown will today be urged to improve the way asylum seekers with mental health issues are handled by authorities in the wake of the "exceptional tragedy" in whi
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Gordon Brown defends Afghanistan funding - Telegraph.co.uk
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3 hours 7 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:02:05 GMT
Gordon Brown defends Afghanistan fundingTelegraph.co.ukGordon Brown and David Cameron clashed angrily over the funding of the Afghanistan war today with the Conservative leader accusing Mr Brown of fa
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Litany of failures that let father rape his daughters for years - The Guardian
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1 hours 37 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:32:21 GMT
Litany of failures that let father rape his daughters for yearsThe GuardianA series of failures by child protection professionals were detailed today in a withering report that described how a father
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Has Holyrood gone completely Caracas, ask critics
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
HE IS a revolutionary socialist leader of a corruption-ridden country that boasts the world's third-highest murder rate.
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Police find body in hunt for missing Dundee woman
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7 hours 8 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:01:40 GMT
POLICE searching for a woman who vanished on a night-out in Dundee today found a body in undergrowth.
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Abuse scandal creeps closer to the pope
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2 hours 24 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:45:10 GMT
AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.
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Fifty offenders jailed every day by Scottish courts
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
THE number of Scottish offenders sent to prison has risen to its highest level in a decade, according to new statistics.
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Garciaparra rejoins Red Sox for day, then retires
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1 hours 40 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:29:03 GMT
AP - Nomar Garciaparra rejoined the Red Sox for one day and then retired, ending a 14-year career in which he won two batting titles with Boston and was once a beloved player in the city.
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Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results
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5 hours 13 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:56:16 GMT
Reuters - Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prim
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Date set for UK budget
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13 hours 4 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:14 GMT
THE Budget will take place in two weeks, Gordon Brown confirmed today as he made a key speech pledging to pull the economy through the "storm" of recession.
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Apple tops Consumer Reports' tech support survey
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1 hours 54 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:15:00 GMT
Apple hit a home run in Consumer Reports' recent tech support survey, taking the top spot in laptops and desktops.
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Tartan Week: From curling to catwalk as ice star heads for New York
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
TEENAGE Olympic curler Eve Muirhead is set to swap the ice rink for the catwalk after being named as one of the models at this year's Dressed to Kilt event in New York.
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Mike Russell admits cutting class sizes has been "difficult"
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8 hours 38 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:31:24 GMT
CUTTING class sizes for younger pupils has been "more difficult" to implement than expected, Education Secretary Mike Russell said today.
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Labour party donor giving up non-dom status to pay full tax in UK
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
LABOUR donor Lord Paul yesterday said that he would give up his non-dom status and pay full tax in the UK.
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Actor Corey Haim, teen star of The Lost Boys, dies of drugs overdose aged 38
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8 hours 39 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:48 GMT
ACTOR Corey Haim, who appeared in cult 80s movie The Lost Boys, has died of an apparent drugs overdose in Los Angeles today aged 38.
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Royal Regiment of Scotland sets off for Afghanistan
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
THE first batch of troops from The 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland set off for Afghanistan in the early hours of this morning to begin a six-month tour of duty.
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Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating
(Reuters)
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8 hours 44 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:56 GMT
Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to h
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Troops killed in Afghan blast were 'poorly equipped and poorly trained'
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
TROOPS involved in an operation in which the first British female soldier died in Afghanistan lacked vital equipment and were given inadequate training, a coroner has said.
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Families and officers pay tribute to soldiers killed on same day
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
TRIBUTES have been paid to two British soldiers killed on the same day in Afghanistan.
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Riddle after respected directors suddenly leave royal jewellers
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
TWO of the three directors running one of Scotland's most historic firms have suddenly left the company in mysterious circumstances, The Scotsman has learned.
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Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote
(Reuters)
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5 hours 56 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:13:01 GMT
Reuters - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. heal
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Another runaway Toyota Prius reported
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3 hours 23 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:46:30 GMT
Reuters - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed
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'My baby girl Abbie died in my arms' weeping mother tells murder trial
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
A YOUNG mother sobbed yesterday as she told a murder trial how her five-month-old daughter died in her arms.
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Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan killing six aid workers
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3 hours 22 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:30 GMT
AFP - Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels.
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€2.5bn airport carries Berlin's hopes
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
BERLIN'S giant new airport is costing €2.5 billion (£2.25bn) to build, can handle 27 million passengers a year and is being touted as a symbol of the city's re
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Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town
(AP)
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2 hours 52 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:17:43 GMT
AP - Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little swea
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Government outlines plan for Scotland to become 'world leader' in carbon capture
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8 hours 27 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:09 GMT
MINISTERS today set out their vision for Scotland to lead the world in using new technology to reduce carbon emissions.
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Man mistaken for Bulger killer wants Venables named - BBC News
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4 hours 11 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:58:02 GMT
Man mistaken for Bulger killer wants Venables namedBBC NewsA man subjected to a hate campaign over false claims he murdered James Bulger has pleaded with Jack Straw to reveal the real killer's new
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What and when MI5 knew about torture - The Guardian
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5 hours 20 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:49:30 GMT
What and when MI5 knew about tortureThe GuardianDame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5 throughout most of the years of the so-called war on terror, insisted yesterday that she had not known tha
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Venezuela: Despite the oil wealth there is a downside
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
IS VENEZUELA an aspirant southern-hemisphere Norway – or is it another Cuba in the making?
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Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes
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7 hours 51 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:41 GMT
Reuters - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby C
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A blond, blue-eyed Philly suburbanite called Jihad Jane
(AP)
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1 hours 46 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:23:58 GMT
AP - The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows
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Pay freeze for doctors, judges and senior managers but MPs get a pay rise - Times Online
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1 hours 28 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:04 GMT
Pay freeze for doctors, judges and senior managers but MPs get a pay riseTimes OnlineHospital consultants, GPs and senior civil servants were furious last night after being told that their pay would b
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SNP and Plaid Cymru accuse BBC of bias in debates row
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9 hours 20 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:49:10 GMT
THE SNP and Plaid Cymru have accused the BBC of bias following the omission of their parties from the upcoming series of live general election debates.
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Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri
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1 hours 50 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:41 GMT
AP - The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well
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Police hunt for white van driver in Kevin Carroll murder probe
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6 hours 44 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:21 GMT
POLICE officers investigating the Glasgow gangland execution of Kevin Carroll say want to trace the driver of a van who they believe could provide "vital information".
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Row over 'identical' logo for Glasgow Commonwealth Games
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
CONCERNS have been raised over the Glasgow Commonwealth Games logo after it emerged that the company behind it created an almost identical design for another group three year
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Trams arrive early – just in time for election
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
A LARGE section of Edinburgh's controversial new tram line could be open as early as next year in order to prove to voters that the disruption felt by residents and busine
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"JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden
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6 hours 51 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:40 GMT
Reuters - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said
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Biden: Palestinians deserve 'viable' state
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1 hours 50 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:48 GMT
AP - Vice President Joe Biden's displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement was on display Wednesday as he warned against actions that "inflame tensions" and reassured his
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Nothing is too holy for mockery, Muhammad cartoonist says
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2 hours 19 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:50:03 GMT
AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist
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Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
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2 hours 25 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:44:22 GMT
AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay f
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U.S. says hikers detained in Iran call families
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2 hours 43 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:58 GMT
Reuters - Three American detained in Iran last year and accused of spying have been allowed to telephone their families, although formal consular access has not been granted, the U.S. State Department
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How did US groups react to Biden's condemnation of Israel? - Ha'aretz
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1 hours 59 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:22 GMT
How did US groups react to Biden's condemnation of Israel?Ha'aretzin East Jerusalem was welcomed on Wednesday by advocacy groups and analysts who called for Israel to be held accountable for actio
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Biden condemns Israel settlement move at Palestinian talks
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3 hours 30 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:39:46 GMT
AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden told Palestinian leaders on Wednesday that Washington will hold accountable any side that hurts peace prospects, pointedly citing Israel's settlement expansion plans.
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Iran and US trade insults over Taliban-led violence - Telegraph.co.uk
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4 hours 26 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:29 GMT
Iran and US trade insults over Taliban-led violenceTelegraph.co.ukMahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, traded insults with Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, during overlapping visits to A
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Teacher 'enjoyed sexual trysts with pupil in British Library and a Park Lane ... - Telegraph.co.uk
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:06:02 GMT
Teacher 'enjoyed sexual trysts with pupil in British Library and a Park Lane ...Telegraph.co.ukA teacher had sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old pupil in the British Library and in a Park Lane h
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Holyrood grinds to halt after dozens of Labour MSPs refuse to cross picket line
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
MSPs took the day off from parliamentary business yesterday because they objected to crossing a picket line of striking civil servants.
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Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
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2 hours 1 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:44 GMT
AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay t
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'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38
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1 hours 50 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:49 GMT
AP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County
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Firm: Toyota, industry need more rigorous testing
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1 hours 49 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:20:24 GMT
Latest problems linked to Toyota show the auto industry needs to fix the way it tests software, says company that specializes in software integrity.
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The Scotsman Politics Podcast - Week 4
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7 hours 30 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:13 GMT
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Scotsman's politics podcasts.
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Poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko sparked claims - BBC News
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:15 GMT
Poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko sparked claimsBBC NewsBusinessman Boris Berezovsky has won damages over claims by RTR, Russian state television, that he was behind the murder of former Moscow
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Three held over theft of Cypriot ex-president's body but family denies ransom claim
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
THREE men have been arrested after the corpse of the former Cypriot president was found reburied in another grave, in what officials called a body snatch for ransom.
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Father of kidnapped British boy flees Pakistan - Telegraph.co.uk
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5 hours 41 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:13 GMT
Father of kidnapped British boy flees PakistanTelegraph.co.ukThe father of Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old boy kidnapped in Pakistan, has left the country and returned to the UK against the wishes of t
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Gordon Brown offers sympathy to friends of Russian asylum trio
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7 hours 4 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:05:57 GMT
PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown has commuted his sympathies to the family and friends of the three Russian asylum seekers who apparently committed suicide by jumping from a Glasg
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Pope's brother slapped choirboys but denies role in German abuse scandal
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
POPE Benedict XVI's brother has admitted slapping pupils in the face at a school in Germany where he led the choir, but claims to have been unaware of the brutality of its
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Burma junta reveals new laws ahead of long-awaited elections
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
BURMA'S military government yesterday announced criteria for the formation of an election commission, one of five new laws enacted ahead of long-awaited polls that, until
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Gordon Brown is hit by fresh doubts over UK plc as exports crash
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23 hours 9 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
GORDON Brown's strategy to drag Britain out of the current economic crisis is "not credible", it was claimed yesterday as new figures revealed a dramatic increase
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Whyte and Mackay warn minimum pricing will "decimate" Scotch whisky industry
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12 hours 55 minutes ago
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:58 GMT
WHISKY giant Whyte and Mackay today warned that the Scottish Government's minimum pricing policy will lead to job losses.
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