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| Saturday, 26 July, 2008, 18:00 GMT 03:00 +09:00:Asia/Seoul |
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 | Obama calls for strong UK links White House hopeful Barack Obama says strong transatlantic ties are needed to deal with a range of world issues. |
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| Deadly blasts strike Indian city At least 29 people are killed in a series of explosions in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, a day after blasts hit Bangalore. | |
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| Four dead after major crash on A9 Four people die and three are injured in a two-vehicle crash on the main road from Perth to Inverness. | |
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| Brown dismisses resignation calls Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismisses calls for his resignation, as he begins his summer holiday in East Anglia. | |
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| Dead UK army dog handler is named The British dog handler killed under fire had stayed in Afghanistan because he was worried about the lack of cover. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Deadly blasts strike Indian city At least 29 people are killed in a series of explosions in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, a day after blasts hit Bangalore. |
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| US Senate approves housing bill The US Senate passes a rescue bill designed to help the rising number of Americans at risk of having their homes repossessed. | |
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| Hamas arrests dozens after blast Hamas security forces in Gaza arrest dozens of Fatah supporters after six people were killed in a blast. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria Eight foreign oil workers are kidnapped in an overnight raid by militants in the Niger Delta. |
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| Sudanese warning on peacekeepers Sudan again warns it cannot be held responsible for the safety of UN troops in Darfur if its leader is prosecuted for war crimes. | |
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| Chad rebels release US missionary Chadian rebels free an American missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months, his organisation says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | US Senate approves housing bill The US Senate passes a rescue bill designed to help the rising number of Americans at risk of having their homes repossessed. |
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| Obama calls for strong UK links White House hopeful Barack Obama says strong transatlantic ties are needed to deal with a range of world issues. | |
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| Trans-fats banned in California California becomes the first US state to ban trans-fats, chemically altered vegetable oils linked to heart disease. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Plane hole 'not due to corrosion' Qantas boss Geoff Dixon denies corrosion caused a hole in the body of the plane that was forced to land in Manila. |
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| China dismisses bus bombs claim Chinese officials dismiss claims by a militant Islamist group that it was responsible for recent explosions on buses. | |
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| Cambodia parties in pre-poll push Supporters of Cambodia's political parties fill the streets as campaigning comes to an end ahead of Sunday's polls. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Women try to open door mid-flight A plane is forced to make an emergency landing after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight. |
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| Karadzic appeal deadline passes A deadline expires for Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to The Hague on genocide charges. | |
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| Fire on Rhodes forces evacuation Thousands of tourists have been evacuated as forest fires sweep the Greek island of Rhodes. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Hamas arrests dozens after blast Hamas security forces in Gaza arrest dozens of Fatah supporters after six people were killed in a blast. |
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| Iran announces nuclear expansion President Ahmadinejad says Iran now has 6,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, nearly twice as much as a few months ago. | |
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| Fresh clashes shake Lebanese city Sectarian fighting breaks out between rival Lebanese factions in the northern city of Tripoli with one reported fatality. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Deadly blasts strike Indian city At least 29 people are killed in a series of explosions in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, a day after blasts hit Bangalore. |
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| UK troops kill Afghan civilians UK soldiers in Afghanistan kill four civilians and injure three others after a vehicle fails to stop at a checkpoint. | |
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| Power crisis hits Indian states Maharashtra becomes the latest Indian state to announce measures to deal with a power crisis. | |
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| UK | |
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| Obama calls for strong UK links White House hopeful Barack Obama says strong transatlantic ties are needed to deal with a range of world issues. |
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| Four dead after major crash on A9 Four people die and three are injured in a two-vehicle crash on the main road from Perth to Inverness. | |
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| Women try to open door mid-flight A plane is forced to make an emergency landing after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Twenty injured in bus collision A bus and a car collide on a main road in Cumbria leaving 20 people injured, three of them seriously. |
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| Pompey's Africa landing aborted A plane carrying Portsmouth's footballers on a pre-season tour has to abort its landing at a Nigerian airport. | |
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| 'Unwell' Brady taken to hospital Moors murderer Ian Brady was taken to a Liverpool hospital after complaining of being unwell. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Paramilitary plot pair remanded Two men are remanded after they were charged with involvement in a republican paramilitary extortion plot. |
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| Neo-nazi vandals in church attack A church in the County Londonderry village of New Buildings is vandalised with a neo-Nazi slogan. | |
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| Couple shaken by house burglary A couple in their 80s have been burgled at their home in Warrenpoint, County Down. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Four dead after major crash on A9 Four people die and three are injured in a two-vehicle crash on the main road from Perth to Inverness. |
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| Woman dies after 40ft mine fall A woman dies in hospital after falling down disused mine workings in Ayrshire. | |
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| Gladstone books go under hammer A large collection of books owned by 19th century prime minister William Gladstone and his family are auctioned. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Girl, 3, dies after wall collapse A three-year-old girl has died after a large breeze block wall fell on her, North Wales Police say. |
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| Probe as 1,000 fish die in brook Environment Agency officers investigate the death of hundreds of young fish in a tributary of the Wye in Powys. | |
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| Graffiti art in teenager's memory A city park gears up for the transformation of a 130m long wall in memory of a young graffiti artist. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Brown dismisses resignation calls Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismisses calls for his resignation, as he begins his summer holiday in East Anglia. |
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| Obama calls for strong UK links White House hopeful Barack Obama says strong transatlantic ties are needed to deal with a range of world issues. | |
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| Cameron issues election challenge Conservative leader David Cameron urges Gordon Brown to call a general election after Labour's defeat in Glasgow East. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | EDF customers face higher bills EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers. |
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| Hope of deal in world trade talks Global trade talks that earlier looked near collapse have made progress and a deal might now be possible. | |
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| Call for action on payday loans Debt advice groups call for action to be taken over payday loans that charge borrowers extremely high rates of interest. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Vorderman 'forced' to quit quiz Carol Vorderman felt forced to leave Channel 4 quiz Countdown after she was told to take a 90% pay cut, her manager claims. |
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| Berry anger over baby photographs Actress Halle Berry accuses a paparazzi photographer of trespassing onto her property to get shots of her baby. | |
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| Ritchie says marriage is 'fine' Film director Guy Ritchie has brushed off speculation about his marriage to Madonna in a US magazine interview. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Unexpected fall in puffin numbers The puffin population on England's biggest colony falls by a third in five years, a survey shows. |
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| Rare seahorses born at aquarium More than 120 endangered baby seahorses have been born at a Hampshire aquarium. | |
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| Rising demands threaten wetlands Wetlands are at risk of being converted into farmland as demand for food and biofuel grows, warn scientists. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Attacks begin on net address flaw Net firms urged to patch address flaw as attacks that exploit it circulate online. |
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| Community network sites honoured Social networking site SavvyChavvy is rewarded for social use of technology in the UK's Catalyst Awards. | |
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| Boom times ahead for mobile web Unprecedented demand will see mobile web-using devices proliferate over the next four years, predicts Intel. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Warning over blood-taking method A UK expert has warned people who take blood not to allow patients to tightly clench their fists as it can confuse results. |
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| Trans-fats banned in California California becomes the first US state to ban trans-fats, chemically altered vegetable oils linked to heart disease. | |
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| Lifestyle 'should hit' IVF access Almost half of fertility experts say access to IVF should be conditional, a survey finds. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Faculty in league table expulsion A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from this year's league table. |
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| Economics 'dying out' in schools Only three economics teachers were trained on postgraduate teacher training courses in the whole of England last year. | |
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| Primary 'free school meals' call The government is being urged to scrap means testing and to give free school meals to all primary pupils in England. | |
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| 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal Egypt's president, Colonel Nasser, announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam. | |||
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| 1945: Churchill loses general election Clement Attlee is Britain's new prime minister after Labour win a sweeping victory over the Conservatives. | |||
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| 1963: Thousands killed in Yugoslav earthquake Thousands of people are feared dead as a massive earthquake rocks the Yugoslavian city of Skopje. | |||
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