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Wednesday, 03 December, 2008, 17:00 GMT 09:00 -08:00:US/Pacific |
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| TOP STORIES | |
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Brown unveils mortgage help plan People made redundant will be able to defer part of their mortgage payments for up to two years, Gordon Brown says. |
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| Speaker's 'regrets' over MP raid Commons Speaker Michael Martin says he was not told police did not have a warrant to search the offices of a Tory MP. |
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| Conjoined twin dies after surgery One of the conjoined twins separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital has died, the hospital says. |
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| US presses Pakistan over Mumbai US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must "co-operate fully" to bring Mumbai's attackers to justice. |
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| Nations sign cluster bomb treaty The first of more than 100 countries begin signing a treaty which will ban current designs of cluster bombs. |
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| WORLD | |
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US presses Pakistan over Mumbai US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must "co-operate fully" to bring Mumbai's attackers to justice. |
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| Zimbabwe 'asks for cholera help' Zimbabwe's government has asked for urgent help to tackle its cholera outbreak, the World Health Organisation says. |
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| Nations sign cluster bomb treaty The first of more than 100 countries begin signing a treaty which will ban current designs of cluster bombs. |
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| AFRICA | |
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Zimbabwe 'asks for cholera help' Zimbabwe's government has asked for urgent help to tackle its cholera outbreak, the World Health Organisation says. |
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| Nigeria buys baby poison antidote Nigerian medical authorities are flying an antidote to try and stem the deaths of babies poisoned by a teething syrup. |
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| SA laureates demand arms inquiry Two South African Nobel Peace laureates call for an independent inquiry into a controversial 1999 arms deal. |
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| AMERICAS | |
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Richardson set for US commerce job US President-elect Barack Obama names New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to be his commerce secretary. |
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| Canada head weighs crisis options Governor General Michaelle Jean cuts short an overseas trip to return to Canada to deal with a growing political crisis. |
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| US presses Pakistan over Mumbai US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must "co-operate fully" to bring Mumbai's attackers to justice. |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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Thai demonstrators leave airports The first flight lands in Bangkok as anti-government protesters end an eight-day blockade of the city's main airports. |
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| Philippine rebels ambush soldiers Communist rebels in the Philippines ambushed and kill five soldiers, as informal peace efforts in Norway falter, officials say. |
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| HK says more Chinese eggs tainted Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety finds more eggs from China tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. |
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| EUROPE | |
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Nato defers on Georgia, Ukraine Nato reiterates Ukraine and Georgia will eventually join the bloc, but does not offer them formal roadmaps. |
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| Croatia web arrests spark furore Croatia's PM orders an inquiry following arrests of opposition activists who used the social networking website Facebook. |
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| Nations sign cluster bomb treaty The first of more than 100 countries begin signing a treaty which will ban current designs of cluster bombs. |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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Damascus hosts Lebanese 'enemy' Lebanese Christian leader Michel Aoun, who once fought a "war of liberation" against Syrian troops, meets Syria's president in Damascus. |
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| Settlers riot in Hebron stand-off Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron are involved in further clashes with Israeli security forces and Palestinians. |
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| Anger as Iraqi reporter is jailed An Iraqi journalist is jailed for writing a story about homosexuality which prosecutors say violated a public decency law. |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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US presses Pakistan over Mumbai US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must "co-operate fully" to bring Mumbai's attackers to justice. |
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| French hostage in Kabul released A French aid worker who was kidnapped in Kabul has been released, according to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy. |
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| Politician sorry for Mumbai jibe The chief minister of India's Kerala state apologises for remarks about a commando killed in the Mumbai attacks. |
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| UK | |
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Brown unveils mortgage help plan People made redundant will be able to defer part of their mortgage payments for up to two years, Gordon Brown says. |
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| Speaker's 'regrets' over MP raid Commons Speaker Michael Martin says he was not told police did not have a warrant to search the offices of a Tory MP. |
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| Doctor 'a swot, not a terrorist' A doctor accused of funding a terrorist plot would not have been wanted in the gang, his barrister says. |
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| ENGLAND | |
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Conjoined twin dies after surgery One of the conjoined twins separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital has died, the hospital says. |
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| Appeal over car ice-scrape woman The husband of a woman hit by her own car which was stolen as she cleared ice from the windscreen pleads for information. |
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| Lapland park guard quits in shame A security guard at a Lapland-style theme park in the New Forest criticised by visitors as a scam says he was "ashamed to work there". |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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Major raids on human trafficking Searches are carried out in Newry as part of a major international operation against human trafficking. |
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| Loyalists 'behind blast bombs' Loyalist paramilitaries were responsible for four blast bombs found near a BMX track in south Belfast, police say. |
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| Arrests follow town axe robbery Two men and a woman are arrested following an armed robbery at a shop in Bangor in which an axe was used. |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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Forecasters issue blizzard alert Blizzards and drifting snow is predicted for the western half of Scotland throughout the night and into Thursday. |
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| TV presenters in NHS data fears BBC Scotland presenters are told their personal health records may have been inappropriately accessed by a doctor. |
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| Incompetent teacher is struck off A primary school teacher has become the first in Scotland to be struck off for professional incompetence. |
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| WALES | |
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Giant wind farm gets the go-ahead One of the world's largest wind farms, which will help power around a half a million homes, has been approved. |
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| Conjoined twin dies after surgery One of the conjoined twins separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital has died, the hospital says. |
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| One in five DNA profiles under 18 More than a fifth of profiles from Wales on a DNA database are from 10 to 17-olds, according to figures. |
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| BUSINESS | |
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Brown unveils mortgage help plan People made redundant will be able to defer part of their mortgage payments for up to two years, Gordon Brown says. |
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| Lloyds to pass on any rate change Lloyds TSB will pass on any cut in interest rates on Thursday to all existing customers with variable and tracker mortgages. |
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| 'Strong interest' in Woolworths There has been "strong interest" from potential buyers of Woolworths' 815 UK stores, the administrator says. |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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Swayze denies 'deathbed' rumours Actor Patrick Swayze quashes speculation that he is close to death, calling tabloid reports "lies and false information". |
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| Boy George escort is 'unreliable' A male escort who claims singer Boy George beat him after handcuffing him at his flat is unreliable, jurors hear. |
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| Girls Aloud to support Coldplay Coldplay reveal that Girls Aloud will support them at Wembley Stadium in September 2009. |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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Ant invader knocks on UK's door A recently identified ant which wipes out native species is finding new homes in northern Europe. |
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| Harbour seals' decline 'alarming' Marine biologists are baffled by a dramatic decline in numbers of harbour - or common - seals from UK shores. |
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| World 'must tackle space threat' A leading UN scientist says countries must work together to tackle the threat of asteroids colliding with the Earth. |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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Firm makes one billionth mouse Amid claims the computer mouse will soon be history, the world's biggest manufacturer of the device has hit a landmark with the one billionth mouse being rolled off the production line |
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| New domain to be web's phone book The process of opening up the new .tel net domain - a repository for contact details - begins on 3 December. |
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| Amazon launches music downloads The online seller best known for books has branched out into offering DRM-free music tracks. |
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| HEALTH | |
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Conjoined twin dies after surgery One of the conjoined twins separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital has died, the hospital says. |
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| Complex births 'add to pressure' Midwives are struggling to cope with the increasing number of complex births they are seeing, regulators say. |
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| Surgeon saves boy's life by text A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo performs a life-saving amputation using text message instructions from a colleague. |
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| EDUCATION | |
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Education reforms set in train The Queen's Speech outlined legislation to create more apprenticeships, increase local accountability and give schools greater search powers. |
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| 100,000 fewer students paid EMAs Figures released in response to a Conservative question outline the delay in education maintenance allowance payments. |
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| Many more affected by grants cuts Changes to means-tested university grants mean far more students than thought are likely to be affected. |
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| 1984: Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident A dense cloud of lethal gas escapes from a chemical factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal, killing hundreds of people. |
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| 1992: Bomb explosions in Manchester Emergency services are dealing with casualties at the scene of two bomb blasts in the centre of Manchester. |
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| 1989: Malta summit ends Cold War The leaders of the two world superpowers declare an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks at the Malta summit. |
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