| Science body is sued over sacking
January 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm
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| | The former director of the UK's Royal Institution (RI) is to sue for sexual discrimination after losing her job. |
| Interim Guinea leader 'not sick'
January 8, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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| | Guinea's health minister denies the country's caretaker leader, Sekouba Konate, has been flown to Senegal for medical treatment. |
| Neanderthal 'make-up' discovered
January 8, 2010 at 8:47 pm
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| | Scientists claim to have the first evidence that Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago. |
| Darling in tough spending cut vow
January 8, 2010 at 8:38 pm
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| | The Chancellor Alastair Darling has warned that Britain is facing the toughest spending cuts in 20 years if Labour is re-elected. |
| Teenager living without sunlight
January 8, 2010 at 7:59 pm
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| | Alex Webb has a rare skin condition called Xeroderma Pigmentosa, which means he cannot go out without protection in daylight. |
| Hoon may face no confidence vote
January 8, 2010 at 7:46 pm
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| | Ex-minister Geoff Hoon could face a no confidence vote from his constituency party, following his bid for a ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership. |
| Scottish tribal link celebrated
January 8, 2010 at 7:45 pm
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| | The genealogical link between a Native American tribe and a laird's son from Aberdeenshire is to be celebrated. |
| California budget cuts unveiled
January 8, 2010 at 7:44 pm
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| | California's Governor Schwarzenegger unveils spending cuts aimed at containing the state's $20bn budget deficit. |
| Youth games venue opens to public
January 8, 2010 at 7:41 pm
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| | A leisure centre that will have a key role in the International Children's Games being held in Scotland in 2011 opens. |
| Worries for outdoor pets in cold
January 8, 2010 at 7:38 pm
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| | Animal welfare officers are urging pet owners to take extra care of rabbits and guinea pigs during freezing temperatures. |
| Three held after Heathrow alert
January 8, 2010 at 7:37 pm
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| | Police arrest three people following a security alert on a Dubai-bound plane at London's Heathrow Airport. |
| December was coldest for 30 years
January 8, 2010 at 7:35 pm
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| | December 2009 was the 3rd coldest on record, following 1981 and 1950, according to WWF Scotland. |
| Sub-zero temperatures continuing
January 8, 2010 at 7:33 pm
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| | Forecasters say temperatures in Scotland will remain very low over the weekend, with little let up until next week when frosts become "less severe". |
| Critical year ahead for Sudan amid fears of war
January 8, 2010 at 7:27 pm
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| | On the fifth anniversary of the signing of a peace deal between North and South Sudan, there are fears that the region could slide back into war, says the BBC Africa editor Martin Plaut. |
| Coloured lasers may curb epilepsy
January 8, 2010 at 7:24 pm
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| | Coloured lights could be used to find treatments for brain disorders like epilepsy, early findings suggest. |
| Faith and charity in Indian temple town
January 8, 2010 at 7:17 pm
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| | The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder visits the heartland of India's Jain community in the western state of Gujarat. |
| Man due in court over drug find
January 8, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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| | A 41-year-old man is due to appear in court on Saturday charged with a series of drug offences. |
| Argentina bank chief reinstated
January 8, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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| | A judge orders the reinstatement of Argentina's central bank governor and blocks a plan to use reserves to pay debt. |
| Charity fuel aid plea for elderly
January 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm
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| | More financial help is needed for elderly people struggling in the current cold snap, says charity Age Concern and Help the Aged. |
| DUP 'should give Robinson a week'
January 8, 2010 at 6:19 pm
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| | A senior DUP member says his party leader should be given a week to prove that he did not breach any rules over his wife's financial affairs. |
| Schools to open despite weather
January 8, 2010 at 5:52 pm
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| | All of Reading's secondary schools are to open for exams on Monday, despite forecasts of more severe weather. |
| Trump breezes in to Big Brother
January 8, 2010 at 5:50 pm
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| | Millionaire socialite Ivana Trump has become the latest celebrity to enter the Big Brother house. |
| Only 'A' roads set to be gritted
January 8, 2010 at 5:34 pm
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| | Only A roads in Warwickshire are set to be gritted in a bid to preserve salt supplies as freezing conditions continue. |
| Referendum due on Icesave pay-out
January 8, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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| | Icelandic MPs vote to hold a referendum on a controversial plan to repay foreign savers over the collapse of the Icesave bank. |
| Abdulmutallab impassive in court
January 8, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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| | The BBC's Matthew Price says it was hard to read Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's thoughts and what he has been through in the past 14 days when he appeared in court in Detroit. |
| Village buses are blocked by snow
January 8, 2010 at 5:24 pm
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| | Up to 10cm of snow is expected overnight in parts of Lincolnshire and buses are prevented from reaching villages. |
| Girls, 14, rescued from icy marsh
January 8, 2010 at 4:57 pm
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| | Two teenagers become stranded in the snow in Norfolk and are rescued by police. |
| Warning as big freeze continues
January 8, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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| | With temperatures set to plummet even further, police advise motorists to avoid using the A1M through County Durham. |
| Plea as children play on icy pond
January 8, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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| | Youngsters are urged to stay off frozen ponds after a group of children were seen playing on one in Shropshire. |
| Ice closes island's commuter road
January 8, 2010 at 4:43 pm
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| | The main Manx commuter road will remain closed for the next week as the freezing weather renders it impossible to open, officials say. |
| More disruption from snow and ice
January 8, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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| | Councils across Lancashire are continuing to battle with the effects of the freezing temperatures. |
| Treacherous times for America's spies
January 8, 2010 at 4:34 pm
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| | BBC Washington correspondent Adam Brookes looks at the Obama administration's handling of a string of intelligence failures. |
| Appeal over private use of grit
January 8, 2010 at 4:18 pm
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| | Cumbria County Council appeals to householders not to use salt from public bins to clear private drives or pathways. |
| Officer guilty of driver threat
January 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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| | A senior Derbyshire police officer is found guilty of threatening a taxi driver in a row over a fare. |
| Engineers work to reconnect power
January 8, 2010 at 4:03 pm
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| | Rural homes in Surrey face a third evening without heating or lighting, but are told that they should have power by Saturday morning. |
| 'Progress' in fire dispute talks
January 8, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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| | The Fire Brigades Union says some progress has been made after talks over shift changes proposed by their employers. |
| Ferry stopped as harbour freezes
January 8, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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| | Passenger ferry services are suspended after the harbour in Bristol became partially frozen overnight. |
| Togo footballers shot in ambush
January 8, 2010 at 3:49 pm
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| | Gunmen attack a bus taking Togo's football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, hitting players and reportedly killing the driver. |
| Rail passengers face long delays
January 8, 2010 at 3:47 pm
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| | Hundreds of rail passengers are delayed by signalling problems at Birmingham New Street station. |
| Brothers killed in ice lake fall
January 8, 2010 at 3:40 pm
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| | Two brothers die after falling through ice while walking on a frozen lake in Leicestershire. |
| Warning as big freeze continues
January 8, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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| | Police advise motorists to avoid using the A1M through Teesside, as temperatures plummet even further overnight. |
| UPS to cut 1,800 management jobs
January 8, 2010 at 3:25 pm
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| | United Parcel Service (UPS) is to cut back its workforce as part of a reorganisation of its US small parcels division. |
| Joiner makes homemade snow plough
January 8, 2010 at 3:23 pm
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| | A Bradford man tackles the problem of snow on his street by constructing a homemade wooden snow plough. |
| Eurostar recommends cancellations
January 8, 2010 at 3:14 pm
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| | Eurostar urges passengers to cancel or postpone their weekend travel plans, as services continue to be restricted. |
| More snow stories from the UK
January 8, 2010 at 3:09 pm
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| | Wintry weather has caused problems right across the UK, here is a round up of some of the stories behind the headlines. |
| Man's death treated as suspicious
January 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm
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| | Police who found the body of a man at a flat in Nottingham say they are treating his death as suspicious. |
| Man charged with raping girl, 11
January 8, 2010 at 3:05 pm
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| | A 19-year-old man is to appear in court charged with the rape of a schoolgirl in Caerphilly county earlier this week. |
| Togo footballers tell of attack
January 8, 2010 at 3:04 pm
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| | Togo national football players tell of the moment gunmen opened fire on their bus as they drove to a tournament in Angola. |
| Snowfall causes traffic gridlock
January 8, 2010 at 2:54 pm
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| | Heavy snowfall causes gridlock for hundreds of drivers on roads in East Yorkshire. |
| Gritting scaled back as stock low
January 8, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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| | Grit supplies in Nottinghamshire will not last beyond the weekend and bus routes are no longer being treated, council officials say. | | | 
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| Task force to probe recent security failures
January 8, 2010 at 8:07 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former top CIA official John McLaughlin was named on Friday to head a task force to examine why the United States failed to prevent the December 25 airplane attack and the November shootings at Fort Hood and to make recommendations for reform. |
| UK police arrest 3 passengers on plane at Heathrow
January 8, 2010 at 8:03 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three passengers on a Dubai-bound Emirates airliner on the ground at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, after verbal threats were made before the take off, police said. |
| Not guilty plea entered for Nigerian bomb suspect
January 8, 2010 at 8:01 pm
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| DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge entered a not guilty plea on Friday on behalf of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused in the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane that prompted a sweeping review of U.S. security procedures. |
| UBS whistleblower in prison, court rules on files
January 8, 2010 at 7:54 pm
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| ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief whistleblower in the UBS AG tax secrecy probe entered prison to serve a sentence he considered unfair, hours after a Swiss court ruled the bank should not have been forced to turn over client files to government investigators. |
| Employers slash jobs in Dec, pressuring Obama
January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, confounding expectations the labor market was finally stabilizing and piling pressure on President Barack Obama to spur job growth. |
| Schwarzenegger submits "draconian" California budget
January 8, 2010 at 7:17 pm
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| SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed "draconian" spending cuts in his new state budget on Friday to help close a crippling shortfall of nearly $20 billion and warned new cash shortages loomed. |
| Obama awards $2.3 billion clean energy tax credits
January 8, 2010 at 6:57 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as new data showed the country's unemployment rate remained stuck in the double digits. |
| Vice President Joe Biden's mother dies at 92
January 8, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's mother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan Biden, died on Friday at the family's home in Wilmington, Delaware, the vice president said in a statement. She was 92. |
| U.S. pushes Sudan on election preparations
January 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan's leaders must redouble efforts to guarantee fair elections or risk plunging the giant African nation back into chaos and violence, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. |
| UBS whistleblower Birkenfeld begins prison term
January 8, 2010 at 2:43 pm
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| MINERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS AG banker who became the whistleblower in the U.S. government's tax probe of the Swiss bank, on Friday began a 40-month prison term that he had sought to reduce and delay. |
| Obama awards $2.3 bln clean energy tax credits
January 8, 2010 at 2:41 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as fresh data showed that the country's unemployment remains stuck in the double digits. |
| Harsh winter hits Yemenis fleeing conflict: ICRC
January 8, 2010 at 2:37 pm
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| GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemeni civilians fleeing a civil conflict in the north face harsh winter conditions that are increasing their misery, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday. |
| California governor seeks permanent state pay cuts
January 8, 2010 at 12:17 pm
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| OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose replacing furloughs of state workers with permanent pay cuts and increased retirement contributions from workers when he unveils his fiscal 2011 budget later Friday, his spokesman said. |
| Frigid U.S. Midwest could see more snow
January 8, 2010 at 11:26 am
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blowing snow and frigid temperatures have left the U.S. Midwest in a deep freeze for most of the new year, with the possibility of more wicked weather next week, a forecaster said Friday. |
| Two more arrested in suspected New York bomb plot
January 8, 2010 at 11:12 am
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested two men on Friday in connection with the case of an Afghan-born man accused of plotting a bombing attack in New York City on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. |
| U.S. senators defend Pakistan drone attacks
January 8, 2010 at 7:23 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. senators on Friday defended American drone aircraft strikes in ally Pakistan, an issue likely to become more volatile if Washington intensifies the attacks to hunt down enemies after the bombing of CIA agents in Afghanistan. |
| Karzai: Afghan corruption "blown out of proportion"
January 8, 2010 at 3:30 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - A defiant Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended his record on corruption in an interview broadcast on Friday, saying the issue that has damaged his reputation had been "blown out of proportion" by Western media. | | | |
