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Egypt comedian's sentence upheld

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
A court in Egypt upholds a three-month prison sentence handed to leading comic actor Adel Imam, convicted of insulting Islam in his films and plays.
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Man heard car hit son during riot

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
A man tells a Birmingham court he heard the moment a car hit his son, killing him and two other men, during last summer's riots.
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Disney opera to get UK premiere

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Philip Glass's opera about Walt Disney is to get its UK premiere at the English National Opera (ENO).
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Baroness Uddin to return to Lords

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Baroness Uddin is to join Lord Hanningfield on the Lords benches after the peers repaid £125,000 and £30,000 respectively in wrongly claimed expenses.
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Lahore station bomb 'kills two'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
At least two people are killed in a bomb blast at the main railway station in the Pakistani city of Lahore, police say.
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Miliband: I will be methodical

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Ed Miliband tells the BBC he intends to be "methodical" as Labour leader and not make rash promises, saying he wants to win back trust in politics.
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Mali gunmen release Swiss woman

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
A Swiss woman abducted from her home in rebel-held northern Mali earlier this month has been freed, according to the Swiss government
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Police warn of rape tweet arrests

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Police warn arrests will be made following comments on social media sites allegedly identifying the victim in the Ched Evans rape case.
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Facebook riot teenager faces jail

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
A teenager is facing a "lengthy" prison sentence after he admitted starting a Facebook page encouraging people to riot in Dundee.
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Savage dance complaints dismissed

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Robbie Savage's hip-thrusting performance on Strictly Come Dancing did not breach guidelines, the BBC Trust rules.
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O'Sullivan beats Ebdon at Worlds

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Three-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan completes a crushing 10-4 victory over 2002 champion Peter Ebdon in their World Championship first-round match.
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Murray eases through in Barcelona

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Second seed Andy Murray shows his ruthless side to overcome Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3 6-2 in the second round of the Barcelona Open.
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'Snowball fight' in Saturn ring

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
The Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn captures evidence of km-sized balls of ice plunging through one of the planet's main rings - its F-ring
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Figures to show recession status

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Figures out on Wednesday will show whether the UK economy grew in the first three months of the year or has returned to recession.
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UK police 'aim to find Madeleine'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
The British detective leading the UK review into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann tells BBC Panorama the "ultimate objective" is finding the girl.
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VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Chancellor George Osborne has insisted that the government is on track to hit its deficit reduction targets.
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Tony Blair's turn in Kazakh video

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Former British PM Tony Blair has appeared in a promotional video for Kazakhstan praising "progress" in the former Soviet state.
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Tribunal hears McGuinness claim

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness was involved in authorising the IRA murder of two RUC officers in 1989, according to evidence given to the Smithwick Tribunal.
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Gers survival 'prejudiced by SFA'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Rangers' administrator Duff & Phelps accuses the Scottish FA of "prejudicing the survival" of the club with its sanctions.
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Hunt urged to quit over BSkyB bid

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-09 00:51
Labour calls for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign after Leveson Inquiry evidence on News Corp's BSkyB bid, but Mr Hunt says he acted with 'scrupulous fairness'.
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