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| British Airways has announced contingency plans to fly 60% of its customers during the first planned strike by cabin crew. |
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| Tributes are paid to the Labour MP Ashok Kumar, who has been found dead in his home in Middlesbrough, aged 53. |
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| David Beckham undergoes successful surgery on his Achilles injury as he comes to terms with missing out on the World Cup. |
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| The Conservatives are preparing to outline spending cuts they would make this year if they are elected, the BBC understands. |
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| A settlements row has pushed US-Israeli relations to their lowest point for 35 years, a top Israeli envoy is quoted as saying. |
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| A new approach is needed to give greater priority to the care and support of rape victims, a major review says. |
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| Fitness tests should be introduced for children in secondary schools to help make people more active, the chief medical officer for England says. |
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| Thailand's prime minister rejects protesters' demands for his resignation, as red-shirt rallies continue in Bangkok. |
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| Children's Secretary Ed Balls criticises children's commissioner for "ill advised" comments about James Bulger's killers. |
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| A violent schizophrenic man killed a young father months after he was fined for brutally attacking a student, a court hears. |
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| Actress Kate Winslet and her film director husband Sam Mendes have split up, their lawyers announce. |
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| The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm tall, has died at the age of 21, Guinness World Records says. |
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| Lip gloss and hair straighteners replace lipstick and hair dryers in the typical basket of goods used to calculate inflation. |
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| Liverpool host Portsmouth in Monday's sole Premier League match. |
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| Hull chairman Adam Pearson says Alan Curbishley is not in the running to become the Tigers' new manager. |
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| England require five wickets to win the first Test against Bangladesh after the hosts close day four on 191-5, still 321 runs behind. |
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| BA cabin crew are planning two strikes this month. Will this affect your travel plans? |
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| Where does the BA strike leave Gordon Brown? |
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| How serious is David Beckham's injury? |
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| Georgians question hoax broadcast of Russian invasion |
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| The US gets ready for wars fought in cyberspace |
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| Remember QXL and Beenz? 10 now defunct dotcoms |
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| What next for church in Ireland and beyond? |
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| A "misguided fantasist" is jailed for two years for building makeshift bombs in his bedroom in Lancashire. |
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| A man is charged with murdering a mother-of-three who went missing on a night out in Dundee, police say. |
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| A nuclear submarine commander from south Wales whose vessel ran aground in the Red Sea is reprimanded by a court martial. |
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| A victim of serial abuser Fr Brendan Smyth calls on the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, to resign. |
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| A powerful Sufi Muslim group joins Somalia's government to help tackle hardliners from the al-Shabab group. |
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| A massive power failure plunges much of earthquake-hit Chile into darkness, affecting up to 90% of the population. |
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| A suicide bomber explodes a car in the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing at least seven people and wounding 13, officials say. |
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| Burma and North Korea reject UN condemnation of human rights abuses at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. |
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| Sixty-nine people are arrested in six European countries as part of a co-ordinated police operation against the Georgian mafia. |
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| The US Defence Department may investigate one of its staff over claims he ran an unofficial spy ring in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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| Credit card holders will be offered more protection from spiralling debts, but changes are watered down from original plans. |
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| Gordon Brown says he wants to "keep going", after being asked if he would resign if Labour failed to win the general election. |
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| Exercise and diet are key to prevent diabetes in high-risk people, say experts who found two medicines offer no benefit. |
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| The pay of university heads has soared with some now earning more than the prime minister, a report says. |
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| Governments need to crack down on the illegal trade in tiger parts if the big cats are to be saved from extinction, the UN warns. |
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| Peter Graves - star of the TV series Mission: Impossible and the Airplane films - dies in Los Angeles, aged 83.
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| Research suggests that key Tory constituencies could suffer most from the Conservative policy on super-fast broadband. |
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