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'Alien' planet detected circling dying star

2010-11-19T12:54:00.001Z

The planet circles a sun which belongs to a group of stars called the "Helmi stream" which are known to have once belonged to a separate dwarf galaxy.

This galaxy was gobbled up by the Milky Way between six and nine billion years ago in an act of intergalactic cannibalism.

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'Alien' planet detected circling dying star

2010-11-19T12:53:00.001Z

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Aung San Suu Kyi's talks exclusively to the BBC

2010-11-14T14:38:00.001Z

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Who, What, Why: How is Keith Richards still alive?

2010-10-28T14:15:00.001+01:00

The key to survival was not being greedy and having very good quality gear, says Keef.

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Five Minutes With: Seal

2010-10-16T13:32:00.001+01:00

Just don't mention the drug dealing

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Last rescuer, Manuel Gonzales, leaves Chile mine

2010-10-15T00:25:00.001+01:00

He's off!

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Good Dancing, Bad Dancing

2010-09-08T10:18:00.001+01:00

Both dances look insane.

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How to create a new identity online

2010-08-21T17:44:00.001+01:00

You've got to be online.

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Rampaging bull injures 40 in Spanish arena

2010-08-19T16:32:00.001+01:00

Most of the injured were treated for cuts and bruises, officials in the northern town of Tafalla said.

But nine people were taken to hospital in nearby Pamplona.

Among them was a 10-year-old boy who apparently suffered multiple bruising when the bull fell on him, and a 24-year-old who was gored

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Cornwall homeowners shocked by plant's growth spurt

2010-08-18T15:29:00.001+01:00

Triffids etc.

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World Cup winner Paul the octopus given trophy

2010-07-12T17:54:00.001+01:00

Paul the oracle octopus. Nine brains!

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Goce satellite views Earth's gravity in high definition

2010-06-29T10:21:00.001+01:00

Animated map of gravity around the world. Courtesy of Esa.

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'I built a nuclear fusion reactor in New York City'

2010-06-27T11:37:00.001+01:00

Mark Suppes is an amateur nuclear physicist who has created a homemade nuclear fusion reactor in Brooklyn, New York.

He is part of a growing community of "fusioneers" - amateur science junkies who are building such reactors for fun, and with an eye to helping solve the world's energy crisis.

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Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

2010-05-31T10:18:00.001+01:00

10 civilians died... a massacre.

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Rave-goers descend on coast

2010-05-30T23:33:00.001+01:00

An illegal gathering of 2,500 people in Pembrokeshire.

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First human 'infected with computer virus'

2010-05-27T06:17:00.001+01:00

A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus.

Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand.

The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets.

In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems.

If other implanted chips had then connected to the system they too would have been corrupted, he said.

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Lurcher befriends Cornish fox cub in Portreath

2010-05-19T08:26:00.001+01:00

Jack's owner Gary Zammit said: "They just play fight - there's never any malice in it."

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Boris Johnson: Tories must be meat in coalition sausage

2010-05-07T18:59:00.001+01:00

Extending the metaphor gastronomically

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Gaza holds its own World Cup

2010-05-04T11:44:00.001+01:00

Gaza residents have held their own version of a famous football tournament - calling it the "Gaza World Cup", with 16 teams of local and international players competing for a trophy made of twisted metal and iron from last year's war with Israel.

Thousands of fans watched as athletes began competing for the title within various 'international' teams, including America, Italy and Germany.

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Paul Hart emotional after Palace draw relegates Owls

2010-05-02T20:35:00.001+01:00

Palace stay up despite being docked points for going into administration

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Close-Up: Latvia's love of folk singing

2010-05-02T11:07:00.001+01:00

Damien McGuiness' ludicrous wig/comb-over most in evidence at around 1:40

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Newsnight - Brown: 'I thought Duffy wanted to expel foreign students'

2010-04-30T18:49:00.001+01:00

It was a Murdoch plot.

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Election: Brown 'bigoted woman' jibe caught on tape

2010-04-28T12:52:00.001+01:00

I like the candour..

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Blue stork surprises German villagers

2010-04-26T08:27:00.001+01:00

The Germans are happy..

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BBC News - Elvis joins Brown for Labour election campaign event

2010-04-24T22:08:00.001+01:00

bizarre

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Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools

2010-04-21T08:48:00.001+01:00

They can also play banjo.

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Colour e-readers with video shown off

2010-04-09T15:58:00.001+01:00

Wow - four times more efficient than LCD, battery life of days...

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The Canadian insect collector who eats his specimens

2010-04-05T16:37:00.001+01:00

He says "I hate bugs" but he means "I ate bugs"

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Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'

2010-03-31T07:44:00.001+01:00

'We're not really guilty. We didn't deliberately set out to heat the world'

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Stroud - printing their own currency

2010-03-30T12:16:00.001+01:00

Proponents of local currencies say they boost community economies by keeping money in the area, but critics dismiss them as fashionable gimmicks and tantamount to protectionism.

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Tiny cube to tackle space debris

2010-03-27T16:32:00.001Z

UK researchers have developed a device to drag space debris out of orbit.

They plan to launch a demonstration of their "CubeSail" next year. It is a small satellite cube that deploys a thin, 25-sq-m plastic sheet.

Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft's low-Earth orbit will catch the sheet and pull the object out of the sky much faster than is normal.

The Surrey Space Centre team says the concept could be fitted to larger satellites and even rocket stages.

The group also envisages that a mature system would even be sent to rendezvous and dock with redundant spacecraft to clean them from orbit.

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Obama's full speech following passing of health bill

2010-03-22T10:48:00.001Z

Bombast in victory.

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Persian new year celebrated

2010-03-21T13:50:00.001Z

The Persian New Year has been celebrated for 3000 years across a whole swathe of the world which used to form the ancient Persian empire.

This year, the United Nations General Assembly recognised Nowruz as a national holiday.

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Cliff-edge house hosts last party

2010-03-21T11:07:00.001Z

The owner of a house on a Scarborough cliff edge has hosted a special dinner as a farewell gesture to the property.

Teetering on the edge of Knipe Point in Scarborough, the property is at risk of falling off the cliff as it crumbles. Owner Kane Cunningham invited twelve guests to the bungalow's "last supper" to highlight the perils of climate change.

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1984 for 2012 - UK develops 'intelligent CCTV'

2010-03-11T07:43:00.001Z

Whatever you do, don't attempt street theatre or situationist art, because the video monitoring system will know you're a terrorist and the auto-arrest mechanism will be triggered. Then. because the cuts have 'streamlined' the courts removing 'inefficiencies' you'll be allocated a punishment on a cheapest available basis, probably shipped abroad for punishment which the UK is buying in as part of its committment to the developing world...

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Insect that fights Japanese knotweed to be released

2010-03-09T07:52:00.001Z

Up, up and away..

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Bonobos opt to share their food

2010-03-08T10:39:00.001Z

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BBC News - Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

2010-01-31T08:42:00.001Z

US religious group accused of child theft

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Stephen Fry on the iPad

2010-01-29T08:52:00.001Z

He speaks of that which may be possible..

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Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television

2010-01-25T17:22:00.001Z

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Barack Obama sets out US banking repayment scheme

2010-01-14T18:32:00.001Z

President Barack Obama has said Wall Street must repay $117bn (£72bn) to taxpayers and criticised banks for "massive profits and obscene bonuses".

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Lib Dems' Nick Clegg shelving party pledges

2010-01-11T16:45:00.001Z

Nick Clegg has confirmed the recession means the Lib Dems will have to shelve some of their best-known policies in a speech on his election "priorities".

Extending free childcare, free personal care for the elderly and a "citizen's pension" would have to be "put on hold" and tuition fees ended over six years.

He said the days of "shopping lists" of spending pledges were over so his party could focus on priorities like schools.

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Cricket - Ball-tampering row angers Strauss despite draw

2010-01-08T13:11:00.001Z

We love a good bit of controversial, right?

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Pornographic videos flood YouTube

2010-01-06T10:01:00.001Z

The female presenter has a lemon in her mouth. She couldn't show more distaste if she vomited. She's ready to spit. Her teeth will fall out if she grimaces any wider.

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Deepest volcano caught on Pacific Ocean video

2009-12-18T12:28:00.001Z

Amazing video has been obtained in the Pacific Ocean of the deepest undersea eruption ever recorded.

The pictures show lavas bursting into the water at the West Mata submarine volcano, which is sited about 200km (125 miles) south-west of the Samoas.

The US Jason robotic submersible had to descend over 1,100m to acquire the high-definition video.

The vehicle found microbes and a specialized volcano-dwelling shrimp thriving in hot, acidic waters.

"It's an extraordinary environment," said Joseph Resing, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Washington and the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean in Seattle, US.

"You have molten lavas at 1,400C producing acidic fluids - the sulphur dioxide makes these fluids as acidic as pH1.4 - and yet microbes are thriving," he told BBC News.

"The magmatic gases sustain and provide energy for microbial life, and then the microbes provide energy for the shrimp.

"We see them very close to the volcano - within metres."

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The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz

2009-11-29T11:30:00.001Z

Denis Avey meets Susana Timms, sister of Ernst Lobethall's the man he helped in Auschwitz.

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The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz

2009-11-29T11:22:00.001Z

Amazing compassion and bravery

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Aerial views of Peckham fire damage

2009-11-26T15:43:00.001Z

London's burning, London's burning...

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Man drives $1m Bugatti into marsh

2009-11-14T11:09:00.001Z

Best place for it really...

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UK facing 'worst storm of year'

2009-11-14T00:09:00.001Z

Ahhggghhh run run!

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Boy, 10, pulls plug on aqueduct

2009-11-09T17:30:00.001Z

Spollosh!!

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Babies 'cry in mother's tongue'

2009-11-06T12:43:00.001Z

German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.

The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German.

The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.

Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.

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Amateur 'stunned' after £1m find

2009-11-05T00:00:00.001Z

An Iron Age treasure hoard unearthed by a metal-detecting amateur has been unveiled.

The four gold Iron Age neck ornaments, or torcs, date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC and are said to be worth an estimated £1m.

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What do people think of the 'X-crossing'?

2009-11-02T17:29:00.001Z

Boris distorts the audio with a big gong

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Oxford Circus 'X-crossing' opens

2009-11-02T17:13:00.001Z

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Warren Buffett: Crisis, what crisis?

2009-10-26T08:31:00.001Z

Warren Buffett - eloquent, compassionate and a believer in a progressive tax system. You can't say that about many billionaires.

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"Black cloud" blights Cairo

2009-10-25T02:26:00.001Z

Coughing just watching it.

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Blair heckled in West Bank mosque

2009-10-21T09:03:00.001+01:00

"You are a terrorism!" he shouted at Tony Blair.

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Cameron's speech

2009-10-09T00:37:00.001+01:00

"We are all in it together. But some of use (you, obviously) are more in it than others."

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Do you drum it, strum it or stroke it?

2009-10-08T13:30:00.001+01:00

I'd fuck it.

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Celebrity favourite Monty Python moments

2009-10-05T17:43:00.001+01:00

Monty Python. Because we're worth it.

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Rio to stage 2016 Olympic Games

2009-10-03T09:53:00.001+01:00

Celebrations like this make me come over all emotional...

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Nero's rotating dining room discovered

2009-09-30T09:14:00.001+01:00

Ancient technology, a revolving dining room powered by water.

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Alistair Darling's speech in full

2009-09-28T14:11:00.001+01:00

Alastair Darling, the man who got it right..

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Spike Lee questions Paxman's black credentials

2009-09-21T23:25:00.001+01:00

Spikey and direct.

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Obituary: Keith Floyd

2009-09-15T10:36:00.001+01:00

RIP - roast in pork.

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Pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-10T21:48:00.001+01:00

Fancy a flutter?

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Oldest ring of bells played again

2009-09-10T08:37:00.001+01:00

Marvellous!

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'Spiderman' scales Malaysia tower

2009-09-01T12:16:00.001+01:00

I couldn't do it.

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Wingle

2009-08-28T00:46:00.001+01:00

She was missing for 18 years.

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Glowing 'bomber worms' discovered

2009-08-21T12:35:00.001+01:00

Five of the species release the glowing bombs, which probably serve to distract predators while the worm escapes. The team has named the first of these species Swima bombiviridis.

"They usually have about eight of the bombs, and they drop one or two at a time," explained Dr Osborn.

Because of the tiny size of the bombs - approximately 1-2mm in diameter - and the bright lights used by the submersible vehicles, the team was unable to capture this bombing on film in the deep ocean.

"So we bring the animals up to study them," Dr Osborn said. "If you transfer the animal into a small tank, and harass it a little bit with forceps - kind of bump it anywhere on the body - it will release one of these bombs.

"As soon as [the bomb] is released it starts glowing green and the animal swims away."

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Palestinian football returns home

2009-08-11T13:28:00.001+01:00

Football has a history of finding its way past conflict.

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Twitter CEO: London is top Twitter city

2009-08-06T08:55:00.001+01:00

@Ev changed my life. Invented Blogger, Twitter. Nuff said.

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Baboons Dress for Lunch at Knowsley Safari Park

2009-08-05T17:45:00.001+01:00

Safari Park general manager David Ross said: "When the first luggage box was broken into we didn't really take an awful lot of notice - we just thought it was a one-off incident with a faulty box or lock.

"However, when the problem kept happening, it quickly became clear that the baboons had acquired an unfortunate new skill."

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Palestinians in kite record bid

2009-08-02T10:18:00.001+01:00

The previous record was set in Germany last year - when the Guinness Book of World Records says 967 kites took to the sky simultaneously. UNRWA says the Gaza children smashed the existing record, and a final tally of the number of kites flown will be released on Saturday.

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Pope to star on new album

2009-07-31T13:32:00.001+01:00

Pope Benny is a rapper.

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Brazilians live high life for art

2009-07-24T17:45:00.001+01:00

I love this kind of art.

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Asia witnesses total eclipse

2009-07-22T08:28:00.001+01:00

Quick - hide! No, celebrate!

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Proud Flintoff credits team-mates

2009-07-21T10:19:00.001+01:00

Andrew Flintoff manages to combine balanced perpective with naked aggression. Man!

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Henry Allingham, Oldest WWI veteran, dies aged 113

2009-07-19T00:01:00.001+01:00

RIP Henry, briefly the world's oldest man.

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How to record a song in six minutes

2009-07-17T14:23:00.001+01:00

It's not real music.

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Mayor's 250k Extra Job "Chickenfeed"

2009-07-15T09:04:00.001+01:00

BoJo just undermined a great deal of his support.

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Bruce Springsteen interview in full

2009-06-27T23:28:00.001+01:00

Bwuce on Gwastonbree.

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Jermaine Jackson on brother's death

2009-06-26T08:28:00.001+01:00

Sad. I quite like Jermaine.

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Why a Mac is really the only option. Can your PC do this? – The Next Web

2009-06-25T10:47:00.001+01:00

Great video.

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Bouncing Turking Boy Survives Car Collision

2009-06-24T08:33:00.001+01:00

He lives!

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Looking for Water on the Moon

2009-06-19T07:19:00.001+01:00

Buy the music here...

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Windies knock England out of T20

2009-06-16T08:41:00.001+01:00

It was the rain that did for England. A great series...

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Indian sex workers learn karate

2009-06-10T22:59:00.001+01:00

Great idea. Wish that all "sex workers" could be this empowered.

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Piano-playing cat takes centre stage

2009-06-08T08:35:00.001+01:00

I intened to vote Cat in the next election.

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Malay court hearing 'Allah' case

2009-05-24T12:29:00.001+01:00

The word for God is Allah in Indonesia. This is about thought control. Not religion.

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Benn says voters must judge MPs

2009-05-21T07:40:00.001+01:00

He's much better as an activist than he was a minister.

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Life as a nuclear decommissioner

2009-05-20T08:30:00.001+01:00

Fancy dress, anyone?

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Eurovision Song Contest highlights

2009-05-17T11:56:00.001+01:00

Eurovision, or Eurotrash?

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Gay protest broken up in Moscow

2009-05-16T16:37:00.001+01:00

"The way the police violently broke up our peaceful protest is an indication of a drift toward authoritarianism that is affecting all Russians." - Peter Tatchell.

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