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Chile miners advised to exercise 4 September 2010, 3:34 am
Scientists from the US space agency Nasa advise the trapped Chilean miners to exercise and regulate their day and night sleep patterns....
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Girl hurt in barbecue explosion 4 September 2010, 3:30 am
A 13-year-old girl and her uncle suffer serious burns when a gas cylinder explodes during her birthday barbecue in Wiltshire....
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Irish tourist dies in plane crash 4 September 2010, 3:28 am
An Irish tourist has died, along with nine others in a plane crash in New Zealand....
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Village £550,000 broadband quote 4 September 2010, 3:20 am
Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000....
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Trapped horse cut free from cab 4 September 2010, 3:18 am
Firefighters rescue a horse and its groom after the animal kicked its way out of a horse box and into the front cab....
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France protests over Roma policy 4 September 2010, 2:58 am
More than 100 demonstrations are planned across France to protest against the government's policy of deporting Roma people....
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Afghan violence 'will get worse' 4 September 2010, 2:53 am
Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC....
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Two killed in motorbike accident 4 September 2010, 2:39 am
Two people are killed after a motorbike accident outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders....
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Police question Pakistan players 4 September 2010, 1:58 am
Police question the three Pakistan players accused of corruption, while the ICC says that trio implicated have a disciplinary case to answer....
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Council head stays in £270k job 4 September 2010, 1:26 am
The interim managing director brought in to run a crisis-hit authority is to stay on for the forseeable future....
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South Sudan to end child soldiers 31 August 2010, 1:01 am
The army in south Sudan pledges to demobilise all child soldiers by the end of the year....
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Cairo zoo puts lions on the pill 30 August 2010, 9:52 pm
Vets at Cairo's Giza Zoo are experimenting with the human birth control pill in an attempt to slow their rapidly expanding population of lions....
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Russian pilots abducted in Darfur 30 August 2010, 5:17 pm
Two Russian pilots are kidnapped in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, state media reports, as a US aid worker held for more than 100 days is freed....
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South Africa strike talks begin 30 August 2010, 3:29 pm
The South African government begins talks with striking workers after President Jacob Zuma tells ministers to find a solution....
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World Cup failure motivates Egypt 30 August 2010, 11:27 am
African Champions Egypt use failure to qualify for the World Cup to motivate the team ahead of the Nations Cup qualifiers....
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Mortars kill Somalia peacekeepers 30 August 2010, 11:21 am
Four African Union peacekeepers are killed as a mortar hits Somalia's presidential palace, officials say....
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Nigeria kidnap bust reveals 'ex-PM son impersonator' 30 August 2010, 8:49 am
There is controversy in Nigeria about the identity of a man police rescued from kidnappers believing he was the son of the country’s first prime minister....
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Kallon to miss Egypt qualifier 30 August 2010, 7:53 am
Sierra Leone's top striker Mohamed Kallon has pulled out of his country's squad for their opening 2012 qualifier with Egypt....
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Losing his touch? 30 August 2010, 5:26 am
Has Zuma lost his ability to charm poor South Africans?...
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Kabylie earn semi-final berth 30 August 2010, 3:52 am
Algeria's JS Kabylie draw 1-1 with Egypt's Al Ahly to earn semi-final spot in the African Champions league....
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BP blowout preventer 'removed' 4 September 2010, 12:55 am
BP replaces the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs....
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Earl downgraded to tropical storm 3 September 2010, 9:51 pm
A weakened Hurricane Earl is downgraded to a tropical storm as it continues up the US east coast towards Canada....
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Hurricane Earl skirts US East Coast 3 September 2010, 9:42 pm
A weakened Hurricane Earl has passed North Carolina and is continuing up the east coast of the US....
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Gulf platform 'not leaking oil' 3 September 2010, 7:37 pm
Inspectors say no pollution has leaked from a Gulf of Mexico oil platform that exploded in flames and sent 13 workers escaping into the sea....
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Tennessee mosque fire 'was arson' 3 September 2010, 6:17 pm
A fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a Tennessee Islamic centre was arson, investigators say....
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Thai workers 'trafficked to US' 3 September 2010, 5:08 pm
Six recruiters are accused of luring 400 Thai workers to the US with promises of farm jobs, confiscating their passports and demanding high fees....
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UPS plane crashes near Dubai road 3 September 2010, 3:46 pm
A cargo aircraft belonging to the US courier UPS crashes on a major highway in Dubai, setting some cars on fire....
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Clinton warns on Mid-East talks 3 September 2010, 1:22 pm
The US secretary of state warns the current round of Mid-East peace talks may be "the last chance for a very long time"....
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"Ground Zero" Islamic centre causes debate 3 September 2010, 11:47 am
Plans to build an Islamic centre near Ground Zero in New York have triggered a debate across the US about the limits of religious tolerance....
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Plans for solar 'close encounter' 3 September 2010, 10:44 am
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere....
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Nine die in New Zealand air crash 4 September 2010, 1:05 am
Nine people, including four foreigners, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports....
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In pictures 4 September 2010, 12:17 am
New Zealand earthquake damages city of Christchurch...
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Steep learning curve 3 September 2010, 7:05 pm
China gives EU lesson on rural poverty...
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Earthquake hits south New Zealand 3 September 2010, 5:43 pm
A state of emergency is declared in Christchurch after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island....
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Thai workers 'trafficked to US' 3 September 2010, 5:08 pm
Six recruiters are accused of luring 400 Thai workers to the US with promises of farm jobs, confiscating their passports and demanding high fees....
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Korea GP venue 'in need of work' 3 September 2010, 9:45 am
Formula One's governing body says "a lot of work remains to be completed" before the Yeongam venue is ready for the inaugural Korean Grand Prix....
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School in gay kookaburra song row 3 September 2010, 7:13 am
An Australian head teacher is under fire after removing the word gay from the famous song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree....
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New traffic jam halts China highway 3 September 2010, 5:22 am
More than 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a 120km (75-mile) traffic jam on China's Beijing to Tibet motorway....
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Japan charges jewel gang 'thief' 3 September 2010, 5:01 am
Japanese prosecutors charge an alleged member of the Pink Panther gang of international jewel thieves with stealing a tiara and other jewellery worth £2.2m in Tokyo in 2007....
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Tajikistan suicide bomb wounds 25 3 September 2010, 4:54 am
A suicide bomber has driven a car packed with explosives into police offices in Khujand, Tajikistan, injuring 25 people....
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France protests over Roma policy 4 September 2010, 2:58 am
More than 100 demonstrations are planned across France to protest against the government's policy of deporting Roma people....
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Netherlands 4 September 2010, 1:57 am
Key facts, figures and dates...
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Netherlands coalition talks fail 3 September 2010, 10:14 pm
Talks to form a coalition government in the Netherlands collapse as the leader of the far-right Freedom Party Geert Wilders walks out....
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The real deal? 3 September 2010, 7:53 pm
Questions over halal meat as market booms in France...
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Steep learning curve 3 September 2010, 7:05 pm
EU gets lesson on rural poverty from China...
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Football: England beat Bulgaria 4-0 3 September 2010, 2:50 pm
Jermain Defoe scores a hat-trick as England get their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign off to a winning start....
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Tennis: Murray sees off Brown 3 September 2010, 2:13 pm
Britain's Andy Murray overcomes the unorthodox style of Jamaica's Dustin Brown to reach the third round of the US Open....
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Six men jailed for Portugal abuse 3 September 2010, 1:43 pm
Six Portuguese men have been jailed after they were found guilty of sexual abuse at a state-run children's home....
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HSBC threatens to quit London HQ 3 September 2010, 11:19 am
HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says....
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Six men jailed for Portugal abuse 3 September 2010, 11:04 am
Six Portuguese men are sentenced to up to 18 years in jail after being found guilty of multiple charges of sexual abuse at a state-run children's home....
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Behind the scenes 4 September 2010, 12:28 am
Israeli and Palestinian talks seen from the inside...
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Uneasy reading 3 September 2010, 5:56 pm
Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'...
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Blair in 'radical Islam' warning 3 September 2010, 5:41 pm
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world....
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Egypt silences papers on posters 3 September 2010, 4:16 pm
Newspapers in Egypt are banned from reporting on a poster campaign promoting the chief of intelligence as a possible future president, the BBC learns....
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US cargo plane crashes in Dubai 3 September 2010, 3:46 pm
A UPS cargo plane crashes at an air force base shortly after take-off from Dubai airport, killing two crew members on board....
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Clinton warns on Mid-East talks 3 September 2010, 1:22 pm
The US secretary of state warns the current round of Mid-East peace talks may be "the last chance for a very long time"....
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Irish delay EU-Israel data deal 3 September 2010, 6:12 am
Dublin delays a deal to allow transfers of EU citizens' data to Israel, which is accused of forging passports....
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Israeli novelist on Middle East conflict 2 September 2010, 1:13 pm
The Israeli novelist David Grossman on how the Middle East conflict tore his family apart....
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On the cards 1 September 2010, 11:30 am
Where are Iraq's 55 "most wanted" as the US combat mission ends?...
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Netherlands frees Yemeni suspects 1 September 2010, 11:16 am
Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of planning a terror attack are released, prosecutors in the Netherlands say....
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Afghan violence 'will get worse' 4 September 2010, 2:53 am
Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC....
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Police question Pakistan players 4 September 2010, 1:58 am
Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir is being questioned at a north London police station over allegations of corruption....
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Imran Khan on corruption in cricket 3 September 2010, 10:01 pm
The former Pakistan cricket captain, Imran Khan, has said that if players are found guilty of spot fixing, they should not be given a life ban, which some officials are demanding....
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Pakistan rally bomb kills dozens 3 September 2010, 12:33 pm
A bomb kills at least 50 people at a Shia Muslim rally in the south-western city of Quetta, the second attack on Pakistan's religious minority in days....
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Anthrax outbreak hits Bangladesh 3 September 2010, 11:02 am
Officials in northern Bangladesh battle to contain an anthrax outbreak that has infected more than 250 people....
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S Lanka panel lost in translation 3 September 2010, 10:23 am
A key witness at the commission set up to examine the last years of Sri Lanka's civil war complains his testimony was not properly interpreted....
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India Marxists take back village 3 September 2010, 2:32 am
Communist supporters in India's West Bengal have taken control of a key village that they were driven out of by Maoist rebels a year ago....
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India Maoists kill police hostage 3 September 2010, 2:31 am
Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar say they have killed one of four policemen they had been holding hostage....
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Indian wrestlers fail dope tests 2 September 2010, 10:45 pm
Four Indian wrestlers from the Commonwealth Games team face suspension after failing dope tests barely a month before the beginning of the event....
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Bad sport 2 September 2010, 7:51 pm
Delhi's anger and embarrassment about the Commonwealth Games...
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Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin 4 September 2010, 4:00 am
Eggs and shoes have been thrown at the former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin....
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Bendy bus catches fire at station 4 September 2010, 3:56 am
A bendy bus catches fire outside Victoria railway station in central London causing travel disruption....
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Man saved after lighthouse plunge 4 September 2010, 3:38 am
A man is rescued after he reportedly fell from a lighthouse and plunged into the sea off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway....
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Girl hurt in barbecue explosion 4 September 2010, 3:30 am
A 13-year-old girl and her uncle suffer serious burns when a gas cylinder explodes during her birthday barbecue in Wiltshire....
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Irish tourist dies in plane crash 4 September 2010, 3:28 am
An Irish tourist has died, along with nine others in a plane crash in New Zealand....
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Village £550,000 broadband quote 4 September 2010, 3:20 am
Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000....
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Trapped horse cut free from cab 4 September 2010, 3:18 am
Firefighters rescue a horse and its groom after the animal kicked its way out of a horse box and into the front cab....
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Weekend closure for gas fire road 4 September 2010, 2:56 am
A ring road in south Leeds will be closed for much of the weekend following a large gas mains fire, police say....
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Afghan violence 'will get worse' 4 September 2010, 2:53 am
Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC....
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Yoko marks Lennon's birthday with Liverpool trip 4 September 2010, 2:42 am
Yoko Ono makes an "emotional" visit to John Lennon's former school and childhood home in Liverpool....
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Banks leave customers in 'poverty' 4 September 2010, 3:29 am
High Street banks have been accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission....
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Six million facing new tax bills 4 September 2010, 1:15 am
HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418....
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Nigerian economy 'to grow by 10%' 3 September 2010, 5:04 pm
Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister says....
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Bank customers in 'dire poverty' 3 September 2010, 5:02 pm
Banks are accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission....
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Petrobras files $65bn share offer 3 September 2010, 2:12 pm
The Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, unveils plans to sell up to $64.5bn of new stock, in one of the world's largest share offers....
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HSBC threatens to quit London HQ 3 September 2010, 11:19 am
HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says....
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Expert views 3 September 2010, 11:08 am
Economists remain divided over the merits of spending cuts...
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UN calls special food price talks 3 September 2010, 10:40 am
The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices....
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Global food prices reach 20 year high 3 September 2010, 9:11 am
Global food prices have reached a 20 year high and there are concerns they could climb even further after Russia decided to extend its ban on wheat exports....
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US sees 54,000 jobs go in August 3 September 2010, 9:05 am
The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show....
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Burnham presses Lib Dems on NHS 31 August 2010, 5:10 am
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham is urging Lib Dems to unite with Labour against the Government's plan for a radical overhaul of the NHS....
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'Brisk walks' to prevent cancers 31 August 2010, 4:42 am
About 10,000 cases of breast and bowel cancer could be prevented each year in the UK if people did more brisk walking, claim experts....
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Rowling gives £10m for MS centre 31 August 2010, 3:06 am
Author JK Rowling is donating £10m to set up a multiple sclerosis research centre at Edinburgh University....
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How to spot and combat bedbugs 31 August 2010, 1:54 am
Clive Boase: "Education and awareness is key" in combating bed bug infestation....
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MS activity 'alters with seasons' 30 August 2010, 6:01 pm
The severity of multiple sclerosis seems to change with the seasons, research suggests....
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Baby died after superbug hit ward 30 August 2010, 6:30 am
A baby died and three others became ill after a superbug resistant to common antibiotics hit a London hospital, it is revealed....
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Heart drug 'exciting discovery' 30 August 2010, 3:04 am
Professor Martin Cowie explains how a new drug "slows the pulse down and so helps to take the strain off the heart"....
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Pill may 'cut heart failure rate' 30 August 2010, 2:14 am
A pill costing less than £1.50 a day has the potential to save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients, research suggests....
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Motion capture clue to human behaviour 29 August 2010, 11:23 pm
The system of digitising actors to create characters in films like Avatar is being used to measure human behaviour in real life....
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Hospitals 'still fail' on feeding 29 August 2010, 6:29 pm
Many hospitals across the UK are not doing enough to spot elderly people at risk from malnutrition, says a charity....
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Reading Arabic 'hard for brain' 3 September 2010, 5:56 pm
Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read....
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Plans for solar 'close encounter' 3 September 2010, 10:44 am
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere....
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Panda twins delight Japanese zoo 3 September 2010, 9:47 am
New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama....
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Wolves fail to halt aspen decline 3 September 2010, 9:20 am
The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped....
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BP says oil spill cost up to $8bn 3 September 2010, 8:28 am
BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone....
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Mighty mouse study on St Kilda 3 September 2010, 4:08 am
Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice....
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Sharks swarm off Australian coast 3 September 2010, 2:07 am
Hundreds of sharks have been spotted off the Queensland coast....
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Technique to trace persistent CFCs 2 September 2010, 6:49 pm
Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer....
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Openness urged on UK's emissions 2 September 2010, 6:49 pm
The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion....
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Amazon river level at 40-year low 2 September 2010, 6:49 pm
The River Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, leaving boats stranded....
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Power play 4 September 2010, 12:44 am
Turning 16 games consoles into a number-crunching supercomputer...
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Making music from children's old toys 4 September 2010, 12:30 am
The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments....
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What does the future hold for television? 3 September 2010, 7:19 am
Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs....
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PS3 hack escapes court challenge 3 September 2010, 4:43 am
Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web....
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Data dilema: Privacy or personalisation? 3 September 2010, 4:24 am
Ian Hardy discovers how top researchers and companies are using today's devices and data to make the world a more interesting place...
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Remote control 3 September 2010, 4:21 am
How the tech savvy help victims cope in a crisis via the web...
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New gadgets unveiled at IFA fair 3 September 2010, 3:51 am
Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 are amongst the gadgets showcased at the world's largest consumer electronics fair in Berlin....
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Portable video 'is the future' 2 September 2010, 11:43 pm
Toshiba’s UK business manager says its Foilo 100 tablet PC complements trends in media usage....
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Tablet PCs take on the iPad 2 September 2010, 11:39 pm
Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 are among rivals unveiled at the Berlin gadget exhibition....
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First 'intelligent' stamp on sale 2 September 2010, 6:21 pm
The Royal Mail launches the world's first "intelligent" stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology....
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Making music from children's old toys 4 September 2010, 12:30 am
The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments....
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Ian McEwan: Booker winner 'not my best' 4 September 2010, 12:25 am
Author Ian McEwan talks to Matt Stadlen about the exercise of writing, the importance of long, moody walks, the "thinginess" of James Joyce and getting to grips with quantum mechanics....
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Robbie Williams lights up Blackpool 3 September 2010, 4:22 pm
Blackpool's illuminations have been switched on by Robbie Williams....
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Raphael's works 'reunited' in London 3 September 2010, 3:56 pm
Priceless tapestries designed by the Renaissance artist Raphael have arrived at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of Pope Benedict XVI's state visit....
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Canine Cinema gets audience howling 3 September 2010, 3:13 pm
In an attempt to reach people who do not normally go to the cinema, Shetland film festival is targeting their pets....
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Robbie turns on Blackpool lights 3 September 2010, 2:44 pm
Thousands of people watch Robbie Williams switch on Blackpool's illuminations....
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Film 24 - the week's new films 3 September 2010, 11:42 am
Mark Kermode reviews the latest UK film releases including Last Exorcism and The Switch....
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DJs unite for Love Parade track 3 September 2010, 10:47 am
Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July....
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GMTV presenters say goodbye 3 September 2010, 9:55 am
GMTV has come to an end after 17 years - it will be replaced on Monday by a new show called Daybreak....
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Thompson defends BBC No 10 visit 3 September 2010, 9:14 am
Director general denies he compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts....