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Soham killer Ian Huntley is to sue the Prison Service for compensation after his throat was slashed in an attack by a fellow inmate.
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A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the 2002 Potters Bar train crash, in which seven died.
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The founder of Wikileaks rejects US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing leaked documents on the Afghan war.
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Parents groups are warning many more people will be asked to pay back some of the tax credits they are awarded.
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Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
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A lack of specialist medics to care for rape victims could be hampering conviction rates, doctors believe.
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The incoming BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The new identity of Jon Venables must be kept secret because there is "compelling evidence" of a threat to his safety, a judge says.
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Many young people working free as interns may legally be entitled to pay, a report says.
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Israel launches air strikes into the Gaza Strip, reports say, hours after a Palestinian rocket hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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Sports presenter Clare Balding makes an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an article which mocked her sexuality.
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The fossil of a whale is at the centre of a bizarre customs wrangle at Cairo airport, the BBC's Jon Leyne reports.
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A 20-year-old Christian mobile phone shop manager in Florida stops a would-be armed robber by preaching to him.
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Andy Turner leads Great Britain's medal haul on the fourth day of the European Championships as he takes gold in the 110m hurdles.
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Birthday boy James Anderson produces a superb bowling display to put England on top in the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge.
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Bristol City sign England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth.
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Red Bull appear to be in control as McLaren struggle during second practice for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
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Pat Richards kicks 10 points as Wigan move one step closer to the Super League leader's shield with victory over defending champions Leeds.
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A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest aged two, to beg on London's streets.
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The High Court bans a man from staging sex parties and pole-dancing classes at the mansion he owns in central London.
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A toddler drowned after falling into a garden pond during a visit to a house in Edinburgh, it has emerged.
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A 28-year-old man is arrested in connection with the murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Glasgow.
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The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found.
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A Catholic bishop calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of 11 civilians killed by the Army in Ballymurphy in west Belfast in 1971.
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A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of a "brave, courageous and loyal" soldier killed in Afghanistan.
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Three Kenyans are charged with the murders of 76 people killed when bombs exploded as they watched the World Cup on TV in Kampala, Uganda.
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Four white South Africans are fined $2,700 (£1,700) each after making a video humiliating black university workers.
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A consortium headed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing agrees to buy the UK networks of French power group EDF for £5.8bn ($9.1bn).
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Search teams in north-east China are still searching for thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals washed into a major river by flooding.
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Forest fires kill at least 23 people in central Russia, while a forecast of heavy rain brings relief to Moscow.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would like to strip French nationality from anyone of foreign origin who threatened the life of a police officer.
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Colombia's Farc rebel group issues a call for dialogue with the new government after Juan Manuel Santos's election as president.
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A gay couple become the first to marry in Argentina under a new law allowing same-sex unions.
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Syria's president and the Saudi king call on Lebanon's rival factions to avoid turning to violence amid mounting political tensions in the country.
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The UN refugee agency urges Saudi Arabia to stop deporting Somalis, saying 2,000 have recently been sent to Mogadishu.
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Floods caused by heavy monsoon rain kill at least 385 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, washing away whole villages, roads and bridges.
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Five Taliban are removed from a sanctions list by the UN Security Council, a move sought by Kabul to ease rapprochement with insurgents.
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US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department says.
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Former US Vice President Al Gore will not face charges over claims he assaulted a masseuse in an Oregon hotel room in 2006.
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BA reveals a steep quarterly loss of £164m after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.
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Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says.
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Government plans to limit the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the UK are criticised by the Lord Mayor of London.
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The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says.
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Merging all tax credits and benefits into a single payment is one option being considered by Iain Duncan Smith in a "radical" welfare shake-up.
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Three ex-Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer lose appeals over a ruling that they are not protected by parliamentary privilege from prosecution over expenses fraud allegations.
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Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows.
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The right of women to choose whether they have home births is being questioned by a leading medical journal.
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A father persuades the NHS to give his sick daughter a "miracle" drug he found on the internet.
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The Education Secretary insists there no is rush for schools in England to become academies, after criticism over the number of schools coming forward.
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Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns.
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More than 150 top schools in England have applied to become academies, government documents show.
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Owners of mobile phones are being asked to test the security of their network to see if enough is being done to stop eavesdropping.
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Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire.
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Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.
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The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl reveals evidence of mammals declining in the exclusion zone.
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Land in the north of Chile is "ready" for another major earthquake, say researchers, adding that authorities did not act on previous warnings.
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A UN panel votes to remove the Galapagos Islands from a "red list" of endangered heritage sites, to protests from a leading conservation group.
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Comedienne and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol after one season on the judging panel.
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Ben Shephard bids farewell to GMTV after 10 years telling viewers: "I'm going to miss all of you, every single one of you."
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Welsh rock band Bullet For My Valentine scoop two prizes at this year's Kerrang! Awards, including best British group for the third year running.
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More women in the developed world are choosing not to have children. So why do others think it's OK to question this decision?
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With thousands expected to flock to a major cheese fair, why are Britons taking this once-humble foodstuff so seriously?
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Hawley Crippen is one of the most infamous killers in British history. But was he really innocent of murdering his wife?
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China is struggling with an arduous clean up after the country's worst oil spill, with grim conditions for those involved.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson sells the benefits of the London bike hire scheme to the world media.
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A Canadian woman has said she played dead in order to escape from a bear during an attack in Montana that left one man dead.
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A north London grocery store is committing "wildlife massacre" by selling squirrel meat, an animal welfare group has claimed. Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) accused a branch of Budgens of supporting a "barbaric and needless cull" of grey squirrels.
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More than 400 people have been killed and nearly 400,000 displaced in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan.
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Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says.
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Wild fires have continued to rage in central and western Russia, with more than 20 people now reported to have died.
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Hundreds of amateur musicians have set the sights and sounds of Yorkshire to music.
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Are family holidays worth all the hassle?
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What could drive a mother to kill a child in first few minutes of life?
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Did they really play croquet at the Olympics?
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Testing London's new hire bicycles
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Who's the 'good lad'? Crisps boy, Massa or Dr Watson?
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Northern Cyprus is a 'haven' for fugitives no longer
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What did they do with the drunken sailor?
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Brazil's uphill struggle curtailing lucrative trade in underage sex
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