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Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was a tabloid editor.
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Police investigating the death of MI6 worker Gareth Williams appeal for help in tracing two people seen entering his central London flat.
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A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.
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The Spanish government says an Eta ceasefire is "insufficient" and calls on the Basque separatist group to renounce violence forever.
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A Sussex vicar found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages is jailed for four years.
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School pupils are among 19 people killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden pickup truck into a police station in north-west Pakistan.
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A primary school is closed in Antrim after a suspected pipe bomb is found by an eight-year-old pupil and carried into a classroom.
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Tony Blair has hinted that he could cancel a book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".
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Almost two-thirds of the 160,000 homes in and around Christchurch were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, New Zealand's prime minister says.
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Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.
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The replacement for GMTV, hosted by former BBC presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley, debuts on television.
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The ornamental duck island which sank the career of a Tory MP at the height of the expenses scandal is sold for charity.
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A 70cm (27-inch) tall Colombian is named the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records.
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Striker Wayne Rooney arrives in Switzerland with the England squad for their Euro 2012 qualifier amid allegations about his private life.
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Andy Murray is at a loss to explain the physical problems behind his surprise defeat by Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round of the US Open.
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Paul Collingwood praises England for putting Pakistan's off-field troubles out of their mind as they easily won the first Twenty20 international.
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Pakistan's Yasir Hameed says a meeting he had with the News of the World that was secretly recorded has been "inaccurately reported" by the tabloid.
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John Toshack is on the verge of quitting as Wales manager after the defeat in Montenegro, BBC Sport understands.
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Former member of British rock group ELO, Mike Edwards, is killed in a freak accident when a hay bale rolls on to a Devon road and crushes his van.
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Children as young as seven are stealing and driving cars on the streets of Oxford, the city's priority crime team reveals.
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Banking giant Barclays announces it is to expand its presence in Glasgow, creating 600 jobs.
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A bill to hold an independence referendum will not be put to a vote before the 2011 elections, the Scottish government confirms.
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Tony Blair warns the authorities on both sides of the Irish border not to underestimate the threat posed by dissident republicans.
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The former US president Bill Clinton is to make a brief visit to NI ahead of an economic summit next month.
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Two men died when a quad bike they were riding on a railway line in Cardiff was struck by a train, an inquest hears.
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A 22-year-old man is jailed for three years and four months after killing a man who was on a night out with his father in Flintshire.
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Many people are feared dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after two boats capsize in separate incidents.
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Police in Mozambique arrest 142 people over last week's riots which led to 10 deaths in the capital, Maputo.
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A court in Japan gives one-year suspended jail sentences to two anti-whaling activists from Greenpeace for stealing whale meat in 2008.
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North Korea says it will release the crew of a South Korean fishing boat seized in waters east of the Korean peninsula one month ago.
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Germany's government agrees to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.
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British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.
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Relatives of 33 trapped miners in Chile hold a ceremony to mark their first month underground.
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Guatemalan officials say they have given up hope for dozens buried by mud as they tried to rescue other trapped people.
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Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says he was wrong to accuse Syria of assassinating his father - former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman vows his party will block any attempt to extend the partial freeze on settlements in the West Bank.
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Several hundred thousand people flee towns and villages threatened by floods in Pakistan's southern Sindh province.
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Tiffin carriers in the Indian city of Mumbai learn English and basic computer skills to improve their business prospects.
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The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment.
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Songwriter Kara DioGuardi becomes the latest member of the judging panel on American Idol to quit this year.
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Pensioners hit by the Equitable Life scandal are making a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation.
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New car sales fell 17.5% in August - the second consecutive month of declines, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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Rising overseas demand has created buoyant conditions for manufacturers in the UK, an industry report suggests, though threats remain.
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The EU budget commissioner says he sees no grounds for the UK to keep its budget rebate.
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The number of foreign students let into the UK is "unsustainable", minister Damian Green will say in his first major speech on immigration.
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Plans for a referendum of the way MPs are elected will take centre stage on Monday as the House of Commons resumes business.
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A type two diabetes drug is still being prescribed in the UK two months after it was recommended for withdrawal, BBC Panorama learns.
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Nearly one in four junior doctors drop out of their NHS training after two years, figures show.
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Scientists say they have established one reason why gum disease may increase the risk of heart disease.
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The first 16 'free schools' to be set up are named by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
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Michael Gove says demand for new free schools has exceeded expectations but Labour says plans for 16 new institutions next year are "laughable".
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A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
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Google proposes paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network, launched earlier this year.
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A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.
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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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Former UK Prime Minster Tony Blair warns world leaders they may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming.
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Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.
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Cockroach and locust brains are a rich source of antibiotics powerful enough to tackle MRSA, researchers say.
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The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize are slashed after a bookmaker takes an "unprecedented" rush of bets backing him.
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Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle founds a new record label and will release her debut solo album, Insatiable, through Tesco supermarkets.
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The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 Arena in east London from Earl's Court in the west of the city.
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Our ability to recall events seems to sharpen as we get older, says Lisa Jardine, but can it be trusted to paint an accurate picture?
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Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention?
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The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat?
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An urgent question on allegations that Andy Coulson, the PM's director of communications, was involved in phone-hacking at the News of the World has been tabled by Shadow Home Secretary Alan Johnson.
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Remarkable new footage of the the London blitz goes on show.
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England striker Wayne Rooney joined the rest of the squad on a flight from Luton Airport.
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The suspicious object was left in the playground of St Comgall's Primary School and picked up by an eight -year-old pupil.
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The role of the gambling syndicates that can make millions from the outcome of a single game has been highlighted by the allegation that three Pakistani cricket players were involved in a betting scam.
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I Am Kloot singer John Bramwell talks to Elbow's Guy Garvey about Kloot's Mercury Music Prize-nominated album, which Garvey and bandmate Craig Potter produced.
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They put their right foots in, they put their right foots out and broke the world hokey cokey record.
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40% of domestic violence victims are male but a new study suggests victims are often ignored by police and there are only a handful of refuge places for abused men across the UK. Ian McNicholl was abused by a partner and told his story to BBC Breakfast
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The Edinburgh International Festival finished with a bang on Sunday as more than 100,000 fireworks lit up the night sky.
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The secrets behind some of the UK’s newest inventions
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What does Mad Men tell us about this most mythologised decade?
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How the BBC learned that Eta was calling a ceasefire
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Mercury prize-winner Guy Garvey talks to nominees I Am Kloot
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How likely is it that you'll live to be 100 years old?
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