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| A former head of MI5 says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired. |
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| Reoffending by thousands of criminals serving short sentences in England and Wales costs up to £10bn a year, says a report. |
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| US Vice-President Joe Biden condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem. |
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| Rules to improve child protection after the Baby P case may leave children more vulnerable to harm, council leaders warn. |
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| The coroner at an inquest into the death of four soldiers in an Afghan blast says there were training "inadequacies". |
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| Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows. |
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| Talks aimed averting strike action by BA cabin crew are due to resume later, after a deadline was extended. |
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| Attempts to reach a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water ahead of a key summit. |
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| Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban. |
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| The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned. |
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| A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs. |
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| The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say. |
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| A Belgian daily has issued what is thought to be Europe's first 3D newspaper - complete with cardboard viewing glasses. |
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| Nicklas Bendtner silences his recent critics with a hat-trick as Arsenal see off Porto in emphatic fashion to reach the Champions League quarter-finals. |
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| Two goals from Cameron Jerome inspire Birmingham to a battling win against bottom-club Portsmouth at Fratton Park. |
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| Darren Bent scores a hat-trick as Sunderland claim their first league win of 2010 against ten-man Bolton. |
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| Targets for getting young people into university should be scrapped, say graduate recruiters. What do you think? |
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| 10 years on from the burst Nasdaq bubble |
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| Why postal reforms are good news for direct mailers |
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| UK painter defiant despite Turkish conviction |
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| Paedophile priest left alone by Church and state |
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| Can we write off the rehabilitation of offenders? |
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| Maybe we can't devalue our way out of trouble |
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| A professional gambler is found guilty of running a pyramid scheme which targeted people on low incomes. |
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| A woman whose medical records disappeared from her GP surgery has sparked questions over the security of patient record transfers. |
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| The Chevron oil firm is looking for bids for a refinery that directly employs around 1,400 people in Pembrokeshire. |
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| The devolution of policing and justice powers to NI marks the end to decades of strife, Gordon Brown says. |
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| A Nigerian governor accuses the army of ignoring warnings of attacks, as communal tension remains high near Jos. |
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| Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal. |
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| The US State Department apologises for comments by a spokesman on a call by Libya for holy war against Switzerland. |
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| Indonesian security forces kill three alleged militants and investigate whether one is key Bali bomb suspect Dulmatin. |
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| Three men are arrested in connection with the theft of the corpse of Cyprus's ex-President Papadopoulos, officials say. |
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| India's upper house sees a second day of uproar as it backs a bill to reserve a third of all parliamentary seats for women. |
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| The UK goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widens in January, causing the pound to dip below $1.50. |
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| A £1bn government scheme to regenerate former coalmines has been poorly co-ordinated and lacks vision, MPs argue. |
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| There is no evidence acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine boost the chance of IVF success, fertility experts warn. |
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| More schools in England are being judged as inadequate in Ofsted's new-style inspections, figures are expected to show. |
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| Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists. |
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| Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland enters the UK and Ireland box office at number one, with record opening takings for a 3D movie. |
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| Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for Windows XP users. |
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