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| TOP STORIES | |
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 | Freed hostage tells of captivity Freed Briton Peter Moore says he was roughly treated after being kidnapped in Iraq but conditions improved in the last few months. |
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| Judge dismisses Blackwater case A US judge dismisses all charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater over the killing of 17 Iraqis in 2007. | |
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| Thousands mark the start of 2010 Hundreds of thousands of UK revellers have gathered in temperatures close to freezing to see in the new year. | |
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| Straw sparks row over police work Justice Secretary Jack Straw says he is "sceptical" about police claims they are overworked saying some prefer staying "in the warm". | |
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| Woman held over killing at flat A 28-year-old woman is arrested in connection with the death of a grandmother "brutally attacked" in her Glasgow flat. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | CIA chief confirms Afghan deaths The CIA chief confirms seven officers - reportedly including a mother-of-three who was station chief - were killed in Afghanistan. |
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| Judge dismisses Blackwater case A US judge dismisses all charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater over the killing of 17 Iraqis in 2007. | |
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| New Year seen in around the world Thousands of people around the world hold celebrations and fireworks displays to welcome the 2010 new year. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Ethiopia rejects hunger warning An Ethiopian minister denies reports that millions of people need urgent food aid after years of drought. |
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| Nigeria doctor 'sold own babies' Police in south-eastern Nigeria arrest a doctor suspected of impregnating girls and selling their babies. | |
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| Senegal apology for Christ 'slur' Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade apologises after comparing a controversial statue to Jesus Christ. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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| CIA chief confirms Afghan deaths The CIA chief confirms seven officers - reportedly including a mother-of-three who was station chief - were killed in Afghanistan. |
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| Obama briefed on plane bomb probe US President Obama is briefed on security lapses that allegedly allowed a Nigerian man to smuggle a bomb onto a plane. | |
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| Montana rules on assisted suicide The Supreme Court in the US state of Montana rules that doctor-assisted suicide does not clash with state law. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | Ex-Indonesia leader Wahid mourned Thousands of Indonesians gather to pay their respects to former President Abdurrahman Wahid, as his funeral is held. |
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| New Year seen in around the world Thousands of people around the world hold celebrations and fireworks displays to welcome the 2010 new year. | |
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| Landmark Malaysian 'Allah' ruling A Malaysia court overturns a ban on the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims, in a case filed by the Roman Catholic Church. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Finland shootings leave six dead Police in Finland find the body of a man who killed five people in a shooting rampage in the southern city of Espoo. |
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| Lithuania shuts nuclear generator Lithuania shuts down Ignalina, its only nuclear power station - a condition of its European Union membership. | |
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| Degas artwork stolen from museum An artwork by Impressionist painter Edgar Degas is stolen from a museum in Marseilles, local authorities have said. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | Judge dismisses Blackwater case A US judge dismisses all charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater over the killing of 17 Iraqis in 2007. |
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| Freed hostage tells of captivity Freed Briton Peter Moore says he was roughly treated after being kidnapped in Iraq but conditions improved in the last few months. | |
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| Protests against blockade of Gaza Several hundred people join protests in Gaza, Israel and Egypt against the blockade of the Gaza Strip. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| CIA chief confirms Afghan deaths The CIA chief confirms seven officers - reportedly including a mother-of-three who was station chief - were killed in Afghanistan. |
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| US men face court in Pakistan Pakistan police say they are seeking to charge five Americans arrested in the country in December with terrorism. | |
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| Delhi resumes Pakistan sport ties India sends its first sports team to Pakistan since the November 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) bombings which killed 174 people. | |
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| UK | |
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| Freed hostage tells of captivity Freed Briton Peter Moore says he was roughly treated after being kidnapped in Iraq but conditions improved in the last few months. |
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| Thousands mark the start of 2010 Hundreds of thousands of UK revellers have gathered in temperatures close to freezing to see in the new year. | |
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| Irish cardinal Cahal Daly dies Cardinal Cahal Daly, the former Primate of All Ireland, has died in Belfast at the age of 92, it has been announced. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Major rescue after trawler fire Four crewmen from a Cornish trawler are airlifted to hospital after their fishing boat caught fire off the Isles of Scilly. |
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| 'Gunman' served two years in jail A man thought to have shot his daughter and ex-partner had been in jail for threatening a former wife with a crossbow. | |
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| Fireworks show attracts thousands Thousands of people line the banks of the River Thames in London for a fireworks display to welcome in 2010. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Irish cardinal Cahal Daly dies Cardinal Cahal Daly, the former Primate of All Ireland, has died in Belfast at the age of 92, it has been announced. |
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| Shots are fired at police station A number of shots are fired at Crossmaglen police station in south Armagh on Wednesday night. | |
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| Medical staff 'at breaking point' Medical staff at Antrim Area Hospital are at breaking point because of a lack of resources, a doctor there claims. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | City's Hogmanay event cancelled Heavy snow cancels the Inverness New Year party, but other Hogmanay events are expected to go ahead. |
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| Woman held over killing at flat A 28-year-old woman is arrested in connection with the death of a grandmother "brutally attacked" in her Glasgow flat. | |
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| Air passengers stranded by snow Hundreds of air passengers are spending the night in Inverness after the weather conditions closed the city's airport. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Police warn revellers to behave New year revellers are urged to behave during one of the busiest nights of the year for emergency services. |
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| Welsh swine flu cases declining Health chiefs say swine flu cases in Wales are falling although one death has been reported in the past week. | |
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| Crater in car park investigated Engineers assess a 10ft (3m) wide hole which appeared after a road collapsed in a car park forcing flat evacuations. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Straw sparks row over police work Justice Secretary Jack Straw says he is "sceptical" about police claims they are overworked saying some prefer staying "in the warm". |
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| Government website ad to cost £1m The government is to spend £1m buying airtime for a TV ad promoting its public services website Directgov. | |
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| DNA data 'a lottery' for innocent Innocent people trying to get their records taken off police DNA databases face a postcode lottery, say the Tories. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | Stock markets recover in 2009 Stock markets recover in 2009, with Shanghai among the best performers as the index rises 80% over the course of the year. |
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| Tiger Woods loses AT&T as sponsor Golf star Tiger Woods' fall from grace continues as the US phone giant becomes the latest to end its sponsorship. | |
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| House prices rise by 5.9% in 2009 UK house prices rose by 5.9% in 2009, making some recovery from the massive falls seen last year, the Nationwide says. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Parfitt and Rossi appointed OBEs Status Quo rockers Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi are appointed OBEs for services to music and charity. |
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| Singer Morrison denies baby story Veteran singer Van Morrison denies reports he has become a father again, saying they are "utterly without foundation". | |
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| U2 tour hottest US ticket of 2009 Irish rock band U2 had the most successful North American tour of 2009, according to music trade publication Pollstar. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Honour for top science educator Science and technology educator John Holman is among several eminent scientists awarded New Year Honours. |
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| Russia 'plans to stop asteroid' The Russian space agency has said it will hammer out plans to divert an asteroid that will pass near the Earth in 20 years' time. | |
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| Nasa picks three in space contest Nasa has chosen three front runners among proposals for the next space mission in its New Frontiers programme. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | New Year Honours for game makers Four veterans of the UK's computer game industry have been given New Year Honours. |
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| 'Start-up' visas to boost US tech Plans to create "start-up" visas in the US for foreign entrepreneurs with hi-tech business ideas will be debated in 2010. | |
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| Spinvox bought by Nuance for £64m Voice-to-text company Spinvox has been bought by speech recognition firm Nuance in a cash and stock deal worth £64m. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Home drinkers 'over-pour spirits' Most people who drink spirits at home pour well over what they would get in a single pub measure, figures suggest. |
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| Swine flu 'more likely in young' Children are twice as likely as adults to catch swine flu, a study says, while dismissing suggestions they are "super-spreaders". | |
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| Another anthrax case confirmed Another heroin user in Glasgow has tested positive for Anthrax, but is said to be responding well to treatment. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | UCL rejects bomb suspect reports A London university rejects claims the Christmas Day airline bomb suspect was radicalised while studying there. |
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| Assaults by young pupils 'rising' Assaults by children aged five or under led to 2,600 suspensions from schools in England in 2007-8, figures show. | |
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| Student visas 'a big improvement' Immigration Minister Phil Woolas defends a new student visa system against claims it is being abused. | |
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| 1964: Campbell speeds to double record Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record, the only man to break both land and water speed records in the same year. | |||
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| 1999: Putin takes over as Yeltsin resigns Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president and says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take over immediately. | |||
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| 1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured People who displayed heroism during the Zeebrugge ferry disaster are recognised in the New Year's Honours List. | |||
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