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| Tuesday, 28 October, 2008, 8:00 GMT 08:00 +00:00:Europe/London |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Zimbabwe talks fail to reach deal African leaders fail to make progress at power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe and say a larger regional summit will be held. |
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| Japan stocks rise in late rally Japan's Nikkei rallies after dropping below 7,000 for the first time in 26 years, following more volatile trading. | |
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| Controversial ivory sale to open The first legal sale of southern African ivory for almost a decade will open with conservationists split over its impact. | |
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| Farc guard given new French life A Colombian guerrilla who led a hostage to freedom is rewarded with almost half a million dollars and a new life in France. | |
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| Extremists to be barred from UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to announce tougher measures to prevent extremists from entering the UK. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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| Zimbabwe talks fail to reach deal African leaders fail to make progress at power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe and say a larger regional summit will be held. |
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| UN joins battle with Congo rebels UN forces are engaged in heavy fighting against rebels in eastern DR Congo, as at least 20,000 people flee. | |
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| Controversial ivory sale to open The first legal sale of southern African ivory for almost a decade will open with conservationists split over its impact. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | Skinheads 'planned to kill Obama' Two men have appeared in a US court accused of making threats to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. |
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| US Senator Stevens found guilty The longest-serving Republican senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, is found guilty of lying about receiving gifts. | |
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| Drug unit 'corrupted' in Mexico Members of a Mexican anti-drug unit passed information to a drug cartel in exchange for thousands of dollars, prosecutors say. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Japan stocks rise in late rally Japan's Nikkei rallies after dropping below 7,000 for the first time in 26 years, following more volatile trading. |
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| Japan hangs two more on death row Two convicted murderers are hanged in Japan despite criticisms of the country's stepped-up pace of executions. | |
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| N Korea issues warning to South North Korea lashes out at the South, threatening to reduce it to rubble unless it stops a "policy of confrontation". | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| Georgia's PM fired by president President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia announces he is replacing Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze. |
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| IMF European financial aid hailed A bank which provides investment to Eastern Europe welcomes the IMF's decision to help Ukraine and Hungary. | |
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| Moroccan jailed for 'king insult' A Moroccan schoolboy is jailed after replacing the king's name with that of his favourite football club. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Syria hits out at 'terrorist' US Syria's foreign minister accuses the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" over what it says was a raid on its territory. |
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| Peres sets Israel polls in train Israeli President Shimon Peres says no government can be formed, setting the country on the road to early elections. | |
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| Israel to probe settler threats Israel's attorney general's office asks police to investigate settlers who called for the deaths of Israeli troops. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Maldives holds election run-off Maldives President Gayoom faces former political prisoner Mohamed Nasheed in a run-off vote for the presidency. |
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| India bus killing sparks protests Senior Indian politicians protest against the killing of a migrant worker by police in the city of Mumbai. | |
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| Nato's Afghan forces 'hit limit' Coalition forces in Afghanistan have "now reached their limit", the former commander of UN forces in Bosnia says. | |
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| UK NEWS | |
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 | Extremists to be barred from UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to announce tougher measures to prevent extremists from entering the UK. |
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| Banks 'need a rethink' on risks The Bank of England says lenders may face new rules to avoid a credit crisis repeat, as it says world losses may hit £1.8 trillion. | |
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| Tagging 'allows curfew breaches' Criminals given electronic tags could break their curfews for more than 11 hours and still not be arrested, a report reveals. | |
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| UK POLITICS | |
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| Extremists to be barred from UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to announce tougher measures to prevent extremists from entering the UK. |
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| Tagging 'allows curfew breaches' Criminals given electronic tags could break their curfews for more than 11 hours and still not be arrested, a report reveals. | |
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| Climate bill 'to include planes' Measures to cut UK carbon emissions by 80% looks set to cover aviation and shipping, heading off a rebellion by MPs. | |
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| UK EDUCATION | |
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 | Pupils 'worry about their bodies' A survey of teenagers finds they are more concerned about their bodies than bullying. |
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| Gifted poor pupils 'need advice' A lack of effective careers advice is pushing gifted poorer students into wasting their chances of going to university, says research. | |
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| Teenagers' learning 'dumbed down' Researchers comparing problem-solving skills say that many more teenagers in the 1970s scored at a higher level. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Seven-year-old dies in house fire A seven-year-old boy dies and his mother and two other children are in hospital after a house fire in Leeds. |
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| Four charged with terror offences Four men held following raids in Birmingham are charged with offences under the Terrorism Act. | |
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| Airport firefighters' job fears Firefighters and security staff enter redundancy talks after Thomsonfly's decision to reduce services at Coventry Airport. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | £2.5m fees for Omagh defence team Almost £2.5m has so far been paid to the defence team which represented Sean Hoey in last year's Omagh bomb trial. |
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| Executive block could hit reforms Plans to streamline Northern Ireland's councils could be delayed by the failure of the executive to meet, the environment minister says. | |
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| Pensioner held down by burglars Police appeal for information after an 82-year-old woman is held down while her house is ransacked by burglars. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Salmond to meet Lloyds TSB bosses The first minister is to meet with Lloyds TSB chiefs in a bid to safeguard Scottish jobs in its proposed merger with HBOS. |
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| Statement due on 'body in burn' Police are expected to confirm whether human remains found in a burn in East Ayrshire are those of a missing woman. | |
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| Ice sheet secrets to be revealed The secrets of the largest ice sheet on earth are to be revealed under plans to map the Antarctic in detail. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Building group facing £100m debts An administrator reveals that the debts of a north Wales building company are likely to run into the millions |
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| Summit on anti-social 'challenge' The Church in Wales and police join forces to help curb anti-social and criminal behaviour across Wales. | |
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| Showcase for green car technology Wales shows off its green car credentials at the UK's first national low carbon vehicle event. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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| Japan stocks rise in late rally Japan's Nikkei rallies after dropping below 7,000 for the first time in 26 years, following more volatile trading. |
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| High oil prices lift BP's profits BP sees its profits for the July to September period more than double to $10bn (£6.4bn), buoyed by record high oil prices. | |
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| Sharp fall in profits for Honda Japanese carmaker Honda Motor reports a 41% fall in profits as it struggles with falling demand and a strengthening yen. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Body of Hudson nephew identified US police say they have identified the body of a child found in a car in Chicago as the missing nephew of actress Jennifer Hudson. |
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| Stars mourn Four Tops star Stubbs Hundreds of mourners gather in Detroit for the funeral of Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs, who died earlier this month aged 72. | |
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| High School dances to top in US High School Musical 3: Senior Year tops the US box office beating horror sequel Saw V into second place. | |
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| SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | |
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 | Controversial ivory sale to open The first legal sale of southern African ivory for almost a decade will open with conservationists split over its impact. |
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| Climate link to amphibian decline Amphibian populations at Yellowstone - the world's oldest national park - are in steep decline, a study shows. | |
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| Arctic ice thickness 'plummets' Arctic sea ice thickness "plummeted" last winter, thinning by as much as 49 centimetres in some regions, data shows. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Microsoft to battle in the clouds Microsoft has unveiled Azure, its cloud computing venture in which data storage and computing will happen on the web. |
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| Alarm raised on teenage hackers Computer security experts warn that many teenagers are falling into a life of petty cyber crime. | |
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| Texts tackle HIV in South Africa Free text messages to mobile phones will soon be helping encourage South Africans to get tested for HIV. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Screening hope for pre-eclampsia A blood test that screens pregnant women for pre-eclampsia could be available in five years, doctors predict. |
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| Jab hope for rheumatoid arthritis A monthly injection could halt rheumatoid arthritis in half of all patients, trial data suggests. | |
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| Tennis call 'brain bias' found Tennis line judges are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" rather than "in", say researchers. | |
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| 1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends US President John F Kennedy welcomes Russia's announcement that it will dismantle its missiles based in Cuba. | |||
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| 2001: Christians killed in Pakistan massacre Masked gunmen burst into a church in eastern Pakistan killing 18 people including children who were at prayer. | |||
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| 1974: Minister's wife survives bomb attack Sports Minister Denis Howell's wife and young son survive a bomb attack on their car. | |||
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