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Welfare 'letting addicts down'

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
The state should do more to help addicts and make them employable, Iain Duncan Smith will say, with removing benefits a "hypothetical" option.
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Donna Summer track joins registry

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
The Donna Summer classic I Feel Love is one of 25 songs and other sounds to be inducted into the US National Recording Registry.
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Lifelong order for serial rapist

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
A serial rapist is given a lifelong restriction order for attacking women across Scotland over a 15-year period.
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Murphy announces Irish retirement

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Geordan Murphy quits international rugby after failing to make the Ireland squad for the tour to New Zealand.
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Hospital 'failed' overdose babies

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
There were "failings" in the care of premature twins who died after being given an overdose of morphine, a coroner rules.
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The end of the Asbo era

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Ministers are scrapping the anti-social behaviour order, but its acronym will take longer to shift from common parlance.
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BAE signs £1.9bn Saudi jet deal

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
British defence giant BAE signs a £1.9bn ($3bn) deal with Saudi Arabia to supply Hawk trainer jets, saving over 200 UK jobs.
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'Killer bride' seized at banquet

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Police in the Russian region of Udmurtia arrest a woman at her wedding reception on suspicion of kicking a man to death the day before.
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Merkel challenged over EU growth

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
EU leaders are continuing talks in Brussels with Germany resisting pressure to launch eurobonds as a way to ease the debt crisis and revive growth.
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Indian films make mark in Cannes

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
The director of one of several Indian films at the Cannes film festival says he hopes to change the country's reputation as "a joke" at the event.
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Afghan aid workers are kidnapped

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Two foreign doctors and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped by criminals in the country's north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials say.
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Big fall in April UK retail sales

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
UK retail sales volumes fell sharply in April largely because of a record fall in petrol sales, according to official figures.
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Chimpanzees behave 'like people'

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Chimps and orangutans really do have "personalities like people", new research says
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Fiat and Mazda in car alliance

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Carmakers Fiat and Mazda announce they have formed an alliance to develop two-seater sports cars.
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Leveson-style probes 'too long'

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
The former Lord Chief Justice has said limits could be put on the cost and length of public inquiries.
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Morgan explained hacking - Paxman

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Ex-tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan explained how to access mobile phone voicemail messages, Jeremy Paxman tells the Leveson Inquiry.
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Wingsuit flyer lands chute-free

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
A stuntman lands safely after making what is thought to be the world's first wingsuit flight without deploying a parachute.
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Diamond Jubilee: Explore the Pageant

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Navigate your way through the Jubilee river pageant
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In pictures: Egypt votes

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
Images from the streets of Cairo as polls open
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Shares hit by concern over Greece

BBC - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 06:40
World stock markets fall sharply ahead of an EU meeting, as concerns mount over Greece's future in the euro.
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