 | Police questioning Pakistan trio |
| Police are questioning the three Pakistan players accused of corruption, while the ICC says that the players implicated have a disciplinary case to answer.
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 | Lib Dem veteran Cyril Smith dies |
| The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died, aged 82, the party confirms.
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 | Dozens die at Pakistan rally bomb |
| A bomb kills at least 42 people at a Shia Muslim rally in the south-western city of Quetta, the second attack on Pakistan's religious minority in days.
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 | UN calls special food price talks |
| The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices.
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 | Prescott urges phone hack review |
| Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.
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 | Ex-MI6 man sentenced over leaks |
| A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.
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 | Thompson defends BBC No 10 visit |
| Director general denies he compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts.
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 | G20 death pathologist suspended |
| A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.
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 | Portugal child sex abuse 'proved' |
| Portuguese judges find an ex-ambassador, a former TV presenter and five others guilty over the sexual abuse of children.
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 | US sees 54,000 jobs go in August |
| The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show.
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 | Cheryl and Ashley granted divorce |
| Cheryl and Ashley Cole are granted a divorce at the High Court after four years of marriage.
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 | Baby Florence makes Downing Street debut |
| Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha show off their baby daughter, Florence, for the first time on the steps of Number 10.
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 | Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2 |
| Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station
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 | England pressure inspires Capello |
| England coach Fabio Capello says he hopes the pressure of expectation over the team's Euro 2012 qualifier with Bulgaria will bring out the best in him.
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 | Farah out of Commonwealth Games |
| Double European champion Mo Farah announces his withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games because of fatigue.
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 | Murray ready for Jamaica's Brown |
| Britain's Andy Murray takes on Dustin Brown of Jamaica in the second round of the US Open, with the threat of Hurricane Earl hanging over New York.
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 | Beckham eyes 11 September return |
| Former England captain David Beckham hopes to play for the LA Galaxy against Columbus Crew on 11 September.
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 | McCulloch and Naismith in for Scots |
| Lee McCulloch and Steven Naismith are among six Rangers players in the Scotland team to face Lithuania on Friday.
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 | Probe as police crash seized car |
| Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.
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 | Plane body women face no charges |
| Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not face charges.
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 | Man held over power drill attack |
| A 19-year-old man is arrested after a serious assault in North Lanarkshire in which a man was attacked with a power drill.
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 | Fringe defends ticket sales total |
| Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.
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 | PSNI rescue 'trafficking victims' |
| Several "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast, police say.
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 | Donagh victims 'forgotten about' |
| A man abused as a child by the McDermott brothers in Donagh, County Fermanagh, says their victims are being forgotten about.
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 | MP says paper 'hacked' his phone |
| Welsh MP Chris Bryant says he believes his answer machine messages were intercepted by journalists at a tabloid newspaper.
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 | Daughter denies murdering father |
| A teenager pleads not guilty to murdering her 61-year-old father along with three other people.
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 | Mozambique police fire at rioters |
| Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio.
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 | SA condemns Madagascar jail term |
| South Africa strongly criticises Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana.
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 | Japan imposes new Iran sanctions |
| Japan imposes new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme but maintains its oil import schedule.
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 | China warships end Burma visit |
| The first visit of Chinese warships to Burma ends as top Burmese leader Than Shwe prepares to visit Beijing, highlighting the two country's close ties.
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 | Irish delay EU-Israel data deal |
| Dublin delays a deal to allow transfers of EU citizens' data to Israel, which is accused of forging passports.
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 | Fox rules out French 'ship share' |
| Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.
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 | Mexican clash 'kills 27 gunmen' |
| Twenty-seven suspected drug gang members are killed in a clash with troops near the US border, Mexico's army says, hours after the country's president vows to continue the fight against drug cartels.
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 | Amazon river level at 40-year low |
| The River Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, leaving boats stranded.
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 | Iran says Mid-East talks doomed |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are doomed to fail, in the first regional reaction to the talks.
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 | Egypt spy chief poster campaign |
| Posters promoting Egypt's intelligence chief appear on the streets of Cairo, amid growing speculation over who will succeed President Hosni Mubarak.
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 | India Maoists kill police hostage |
| Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar say they have killed one of four policemen they had been holding hostage.
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 | Strike 'kills Afghan civilians' |
| Ten election campaign workers have been killed in an air strike by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.
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 | Hurricane Earl skirts eastern US |
| A weakened hurricane Earl skirts past North Carolina's Outer Banks and continues up the US east coast as a "category two" storm.
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 | Explosion on Gulf of Mexico rig |
| An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill.
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 | HSBC threatens to quit London HQ |
| HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.
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 | BP says oil spill cost up to $8bn |
| BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.
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 | UK builders and services falter |
| New data shows new construction orders contracted in the second quarter, while the services sector slowed sharply in August.
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 | Farage to contest UKIP leadership |
| Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year.
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 | School lottery 'failed in aim' |
| England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
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 | Openness urged on UK's emissions |
| The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion.
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 | 'No evidence' implants are toxic |
| Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.
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 | Compost sparks Legionnaire's fear |
| Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.
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 | Clue to egg flaws in older women |
| British scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women trying to fall pregnant are more likely to produce abnormal eggs.
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 | Men in short supply in primaries |
| One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
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 | Prodigy makes Cambridge history |
| A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.
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 | School meals 'help fussy eaters' |
| School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests.
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 | PS3 hack escapes court challenge |
| Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.
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 | Memristor revolution backed by HP |
| A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.
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 | Global broadband divide revealed |
| The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures.
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 | Method to trace persistent CFCs |
| Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.
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 | 'Lights out' help migratory birds |
| A growing number of New York sky-scrapers switch off their lights at night to help reduce the number of migratory birds hitting the buildings.
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 | Greatest free-kick 'was no fluke' |
| Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke.
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 | Hirst works 'inspired by others' |
| A group that campaigns against conceptual art claims 15 works by the artist Damien Hirst were inspired by other artists.
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 | Saunders writing Spice Girls show |
| TV comedienne Jennifer Saunders is to write the story for musical Viva Forever - based on the songs of the Spice Girls.
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 | GMTV ends after 17 years on ITV |
| Morning show GMTV appears on ITV1 for the final time after 17 years with presenter Andrew Castle paying tribute to viewers.
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 | Autobiographies of the rich and famous |
| Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers?
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 | Propping up a prime minister |
| Tony Blair used alcohol as a 'prop' during his time in power but how many of us do the same?
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 | Been and Gone |
| Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month.
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 | Sharks swarm off Australian coast |
| Hundreds of sharks have been spotted off the Queensland coast.
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 | 3D cameras and web TVs on show |
| Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.
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 | Bath tub sailor - it's Odd Box |
| A man sailing the sea in a bath tub, mud sculptures and an ugly fish who finds love - it's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
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 | Probably the world's oldest beer |
| A team of divers say they have found the world's oldest drinkable beer in a shipwreck off the coast of Finland.
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 | On board UK's newest attack sub |
| Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board.
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 | Florence Cameron's Downing St debut |
| David and Samantha Cameron have introduced their new daughter, Florence, on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
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 | 'I was nearly six foot at 11 years old' |
| President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest?
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 | Mighty mouse study on St Kilda |
| Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.
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 | Now you see it, now you don't |
| A glimpse on board the UK's new stealth submarine
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 | Midnight feast |
| Why bed-bug infestations are on the rise again
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 | Massive Mini |
| How far can BMW stretch the brand before it snaps?
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 | 7 days quiz |
| How much is a bottle of beer under new price laws on booze?
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 | Troubled waters |
| Why aren't black American children taught to swim?
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 | Speaking the lingo |
| Does the NHS do enough for non-English speakers?
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| Rezai Joma Jaghori |