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| Wednesday, 27 June, 2007, 18:00 GMT 03:00 +09:00:Asia/Seoul |
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Nick Robinson
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Brown is UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown has become the UK's new prime minister as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years in Downing Street. |
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| Day in pictures: Brown takes over The day in pictures as Gordon Brown takes over as prime minister. | |
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| The Gordon Brown story The life and times of Britain's next prime minister Gordon Brown - from gifted child to driven politician. | |
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| Nick Robinson Nervy, hesitant, but intriguing: Our new PM's first speech | |
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| Disruption continues after floods Floods are causing chaos in England, with hundreds of families unable to return to their homes. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Blair becomes Middle East envoy Tony Blair is to become a Middle East envoy working on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. |
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| US-EU airline data accord reached EU and US negotiators strike a deal on sharing passenger information for transatlantic flights. | |
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| One in two 'will live in cities' More than half the world's people will live in cities by 2008, mainly in developing countries, the UN says. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Nigeria opposition to share power Nigeria's main opposition party says it will join newly elected President Umaru Yar'Adua's government. |
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| Mbeki urges end to successor talk President Thabo Mbeki seeks to curtail debate over his succession at a gathering of South Africa's ruling party. | |
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| Hotel Rwanda hero urges justice The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda says unless the UN genocide tribunal is extended it will be a failure. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Venezuela oil loss put at $4.5bn ConocoPhillips says that a decision not to accept a minority stake in Venezuelan oilfields may cost it $4.5bn. |
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| US-EU airline data accord reached EU and US negotiators strike a deal on sharing passenger information for transatlantic flights. | |
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| Fifa climbs down on altitude rule Fifa raises the altitude limit on international matches to 3,000 metres following protests from South American countries. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Monitors 'to see N Korea reactor' UN nuclear inspectors will be allowed their first visit to N Korea's main nuclear reactor in four years, reports say. |
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| Kazakh HIV medics found guilty A judge finds 21 medical workers guilty of infecting children with HIV in the south of Kazakhstan. | |
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| Campaigns end ahead of Timor poll Political parties in East Timor end 30 days of campaigning ahead of this weekend's parliamentary polls. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | US-EU airline data accord reached EU and US negotiators strike a deal on sharing passenger information for transatlantic flights. |
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| Brown is UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown has become the UK's new prime minister as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years in Downing Street. | |
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| Anger over Polish breast montage A Polish magazine cover showing Germany's chancellor breast-feeding Poland's leaders fuels tensions. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Blair becomes Middle East envoy Tony Blair is to become a Middle East envoy working on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. |
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| Twelve die in Israel Gaza raids At least 12 Palestinians are killed in Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials say. | |
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| 'Find of century' for Egyptology Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most powerful female ruler. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Pakistanis stranded after cyclone Rescuers struggle to reach thousands of people stranded after a cyclone battered Pakistan's coast. |
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| Maoists set fire to India station Maoist rebels in India burn down a railway station on the second day of protests against the government. | |
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| Shetty to star in London musical Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is set to star in a musical that will premiere in London later this year. | |
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| UK | |
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| Brown is UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown has become the UK's new prime minister as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years in Downing Street. |
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| Disruption continues after floods Floods are causing chaos in England, with hundreds of families unable to return to their homes. | |
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| Depot robbers 'left £153m behind' A gang left behind £153m at a depot because they could not fit it in the getaway lorry, an Old Bailey trial hears. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Disruption continues after floods Floods are causing chaos in England, with hundreds of families unable to return to their homes. |
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| Depot robbers 'left £153m behind' A gang left behind £153m at a depot because they could not fit it in the getaway lorry, an Old Bailey trial hears. | |
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| Van revenge woman spared prison A woman who pushed her fiance's work van into a harbour after an argument avoids a jail sentence. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | 'Executioner' wife gets life term A Richhill woman who suffocated her husband and "waited for him to die" is jailed for life. |
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| Man, 27, dies after fall from 4X4 A man who suffered a head injury after falling from the back of a 4X4 vehicle dies in hospital two days later. | |
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| Call to parents over 'kid thugs' Parents in the Markets area of Belfast are urged to control their "thuggish children" by a Sinn Fein assembly member. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Salmond welcomes Brown as new PM First Minister Alex Salmond says he wants a co-operative relationship with Gordon Brown's government. |
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| Climbdown over transport defeat The Scottish government backs down over its opposition to Edinburgh's trams after its first Holyrood defeat. | |
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| Robot fleet for hi-tech hospital A new hospital being built in Forth Valley will be the first in the UK to use a fleet of robots to transport equipment. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Damning verdict over cycle deaths Bad driving and a lack of communication contributed to the worst cycling disaster in British history, says a coroner. |
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| Historic Labour-Plaid deal agreed Labour and Plaid Cymru put aside decades of rivalry to agree in principle to go into coalition in the assembly. | |
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| Morriston Orpheus set to split up The famous Morriston Orpheus choir may split as a row rages on over the "hounding out" of its female conductor. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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| Brown is UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown has become the UK's new prime minister as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years in Downing Street. |
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| Blair becomes Middle East envoy Tony Blair is to become a Middle East envoy working on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. | |
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| Beckett out as foreign secretary Margaret Beckett will not stay as foreign secretary under new Prime Minister Gordon Brown. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Rates too low, Bank deputy says UK interest rates are too low and are driving demand for credit, the Bank of England's deputy governor says. |
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| Ryanair's Aer Lingus bid blocked The European Commission blocks low-cost airline Ryanair from making a bid for Ireland's Aer Lingus. | |
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| Business chiefs 'to advise Brown' Gordon Brown is creating a panel of business leaders to advise him directly as Prime Minister, the BBC learns. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Big Brother couple end marriage Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton and singer Samuel Preston split after ten months of marriage. |
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| BBC web downloads set to launch The BBC's on-demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch on 27 July, the corporation says. | |
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| Sir Elton wins fake statue battle Sir Elton John wins £250,000 from a Parisian art dealer who he accused of selling him fake statues. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Supercomputer steps up the pace The world's fastest commercial supercomputer is launched by the computer giant IBM. |
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| Team makes Tunguska crater claim Scientists find a possible crater left by the biggest space impact of modern times - the Tunguska event of 1908. | |
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| Tropical giant penguin discovered Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | BBC web downloads set to launch The BBC's on-demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch on 27 July, the corporation says. |
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| Supercomputer steps up the pace The world's fastest commercial supercomputer is launched by the computer giant IBM. | |
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| Private-eye hackers are convicted Two police officers who set up a detective agency are convicted of hacking into e-mails on behalf of clients. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Doctors back 'easier' abortions Doctors call for a relaxation of regulations to give women quicker access to abortions in early pregnancy. |
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| Hewitt leaves Cabinet health job Patricia Hewitt will not be health secretary in new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet. | |
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| Autism symptoms reversed in lab Symptoms of mental retardation and autism have been reversed for the first time in laboratory mice. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | School tables to include science The 2007 league tables are to include an indication of how many pupils got two good science GCSEs. |
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| Rise in 'short, sharp' exclusions There were apparently fewer expulsions of pupils in England last year - but more suspensions. | |
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| Boy's death was 'freak accident' The family of a boy killed by a falling tree branch during a school trip say the teachers were not to blame. | |
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| 1991: Yugoslav troops move against Slovenia Yugoslav tanks, troops and aircraft sweep into the small republic of Slovenia, 48 hours after it declared independence. | |||
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| 1963: Warm welcome for JFK in Ireland The US President John F Kennedy visits his ancestral homeland in County Wexford. | |||
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| 1957: Smoking 'causes lung cancer' The link between smoking and lung cancer is one of 'direct cause and effect', a report by the Medical Research Council finds. | |||
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