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Syria 'gunfire' as UN team visits

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Shooting breaks out during a visit to a Damascus suburb by UN observers, activists say, as the UN prepares plans to expand the mission.
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MPs call for better porn blocks

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
MPs find children are viewing pornography and other unsuitable content online and they want more done to block it.
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Gilroy jailed for Pilley murder

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
An Edinburgh man who murdered a colleague after she ended their affair is sentenced to life in prison.
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Bank official warns on inflation

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Inflation will fall more slowly than predicted during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England.
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VIDEO: Convicted murderer sentencing filmed

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
David Gilroy was told he would serve a minimum of 18 years for killing Suzanne Pilley, whose body has never been found.
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Twitter proposes patent agreement

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Twitter plans to put its engineers and designers in charge of how their patents are used.
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Women arrested over Tang murder

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Police investigating the murder of father of two Simon Tang in Carrickfergus 16 years ago arrest two women in the town.
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VIDEO: Why teenagers are always tired...

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Teenagers regularly get an average of only six and a half hours of sleep a night.
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TUC chief Brendan Barber retiring

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Brendan Barber, general secretary of union umbrella body the Trades Union Congress (TUC), is to retire at the end of the year.
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Beckham on course for London 2012

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
David Beckham's hopes of playing for Team GB at the 2012 Olympic Games remain on course.
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Unemployment increase for women

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Unemployment rose slightly in the run up to February in Wales, with women bearing the brunt of the increase, say official figures.
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GB 'will win 27 golds at Games'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
A study released exclusively to the BBC claims Team GB is on track for its biggest gold-medal haul in a century at London 2012.
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UN wives ask Mrs Assad for peace

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
The wives of two UN ambassadors make a video urging Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma to pressure him to end the suppression of Syria's uprising.
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London analogue TV switched off

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Analogue television is switched off in London, 75 years after it was first invented.
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VIDEO: UN wives produce 'letter to Asma'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the UN have released a four-minute video urging President Assad's wife to help end the violence in Syria.
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AUDIO: Opening up Britain's secret colonial files

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
The Today programme's Sanchia Berg reports on the release of secret files from British colonial rule by the Foreign Office.
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China dam may affect 100,000 more

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Another 100,000 people may be moved from the area around China's huge Three Gorges Dam because of landslides and bank collapses, state media say.
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Berners-Lee: Drop 'snooping' plan

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says plans to increase internet monitoring should be blocked, without a strong watchdog and rules on storing data.
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Barley prices hit brewer Heineken

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Europe's biggest brewer sold more beer than had been expected in the first three months of the year, but was hit by higher costs.
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Spain threatens Argentina on YPF

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-06 20:50
Spain threatens retaliation against Argentina over the nationalisation of oil firm YPF, raising the prospects of a trade war.
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