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Thompson defends BBC No 10 visit

31 min 25 sec ago
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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Portugal child sex abuse 'proved'

34 min 15 sec ago
Portuguese judges find an ex-ambassador, a former TV presenter and five others guilty over the sexual abuse of children.
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Farage to contest UKIP leadership

34 min 38 sec ago
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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Hurricane Earl skirts eastern US

37 min 1 sec ago
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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Plane body women face no charges

44 min 25 sec ago
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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Mozambique police fire at rioters

51 min 45 sec ago
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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BP says oil spill cost up to $8bn

58 min 21 sec ago
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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Dozens die at Pakistan rally bomb

1 hour 2 min ago
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

1 hour 15 min ago
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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Daughter denies murdering father

1 hour 25 min ago
A teenager pleads not guilty to murdering her 61-year-old father along with three other people.
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Iran says Mid-East talks doomed

1 hour 28 min ago
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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Ex-MI6 man sentenced over leaks

1 hour 34 min ago
A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.
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Prescott urges phone hack review

1 hour 38 min ago
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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Probe as police crash seized car

1 hour 50 min ago
Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.
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Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2

1 hour 51 min ago
Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station
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PSNI rescue 'trafficking victims'

1 hour 53 min ago
Several "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast, police say.
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G20 death pathologist suspended

1 hour 56 min ago
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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Lib Dem veteran Cyril Smith dies

1 hour 58 min ago
The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died, aged 82, the party confirms.
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US sees 54,000 jobs go in August

2 hours 5 min ago
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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3D cameras and web TVs on show

2 hours 7 min ago
Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.
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