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VIDEO: Detroit: the ruins left behind when a city loses half its population

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Photographer Julia Reyes Taubman spent years documenting what is left of Detroit, and argues its ruins are monuments to American innovation that must be preserved.
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When Alzheimer's strikes the young

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Early-onset Alzheimer's robs families of a future
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Lancaster warns players to behave

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
England coach Stuart Lancaster warns his players about their off-field behaviour as they fly out for the tour of South Africa.
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Canada manhunt after limbs posted

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Canadian police name a 29-year-old Montreal man wanted in connection with two limbs sent through the post, and a headless torso.
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Three killed in US cafe shooting

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Three people were killed and two seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire in a cafe in Seattle, Washington.
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'Largest' shark anglers praised

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Two sea anglers are praised for releasing what could be be the largest shark ever caught in British waters.
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Japan makes games piracy arrest

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Nintendo says Japan has used a new law to crack down on adapters that allow the use of pirated games.
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VIDEO: Miller's joy at Orange Prize win

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Debut novelist Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with The Song of Achilles, a story of same-sex romance set in the Greek age of heroes.
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VIDEO: Anglers hook '550lb shark'

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Two anglers claim to have hooked a '550lb' Porbeagle shark off north Cornwall.
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Parents charged over fire deaths

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
The parents of six children who died in a house fire in Derby are due in court after being charged with their murder.
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Music presenter freed in Zimbabwe

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
BBC Radio 3 music presenter Petroc Trelawny is freed from police custody in Zimbabwe but faces charges of breaking immigration laws.
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Murray wins despite injury scare

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Andy Murray plays through an injury scare to beat Jarkko Nieminen in four sets to reach the French Open third round.
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Eddy Shah faces child sex charges

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
The former newspaper proprietor, Eddy Shah, is charged with child sex offences by the Metropolitan Police.
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Lagos anger over university name

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Students in Nigeria take part in angry protests over the president's sudden decision to change the name of the prestigious University of Lagos.
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Debut novelist wins Orange Prize

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
US author Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Song of Achilles.
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Care home fire death 'dreadful'

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
A 96-year-old woman was unlawfully killed in a care home when her bed was deliberately set alight, a coroner rules.
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Obama congratulates rival Romney

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
President Obama calls Mitt Romney, his challenger in November's election, to congratulate him on winning the Republican White House nomination.
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Alliance boycott 'was ludicrous'

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
First Minister Peter Robinson accuses the Alliance Party of being "belligerent and bellicose" over its decision to pull out of a Stormont group aimed at agreeing a shared future strategy.
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Sky blocks access to Pirate Bay

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Sky has become the third internet service provider to prevent its users accessing file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
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Classy Radwanska eliminates Venus

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 03:48
Former world number one Venus Williams follows her sister Serena out of the French Open, losing to third seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
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