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Girl, 12, died after eating chips

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
A 12-year-old girl died in her father's arms from a suspected allergic reaction after eating curry and chips, an inquest in Aberdare hears.
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VIDEO: 'Taylor deserves 100 years in jail'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
International judges have found Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war.
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VIDEO: New video emerges in Duggan case

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
An eyewitness to the death of Mark Duggan has given the BBC footage of the immediate aftermath of his shooting by police last August.
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The camera that says what it sees

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
A camera which develops written descriptions rather than pictures has been created by a student in New York.
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Sri Lanka cluster bombs 'found'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Unexploded and deadly cluster munitions have been found for the first time in Sri Lanka, a UN expert on land mines claims.
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Report: Fla. troopers erred before Jan. crashes that killed 11

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he reopened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday.

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Cash-strapped R.I. city backing down in cross fight

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Wisconsin group challenging the constitutionality of a cross on a war memorial in Rhode Island says it expects to prevail without the type of long legal battle that unfolded over a prayer banner ordered removed this year from a public high school.

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Duggan shooting witness emerges

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
The BBC has obtained footage of the aftermath of the police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked the 2011 summer riots.
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Murdoch, politicians under pressure after report

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
LONDON (AP) -- Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets - and a headache for Britain's government....

Home inspector in bribery arrest

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
A former care home inspector has been arrested over allegations that she pressured homes into giving money in exchange for favourable reports.
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Barclays hit by revolt over pay

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Barclays management is stung by a revolt over pay, as 26.9% of shareholders vote against the bank's remuneration report.
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Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

Guardiola to leave Barcelona post

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Pep Guardiola will stand down as Barcelona coach at the end of the season and will be replaced by assistant Tito Vilanova.
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Crane owner cleared in deadly 2008 collapse in NYC

NEW YORK — A construction crane owner was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges Thursday in the May 2008 collapse of his 200-foot-tall rig that snapped apart and killed two workers, which fueled concerns about crane safety.

James Lomma sat expressionless, looking frozen, as a judge announced his verdict ...

Bakers voice anger at 'pasty tax'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Bakers voice their anger at plans to hike VAT
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Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic congressman says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney....

UK minister: Briton found dead in China not a spy

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday took the unusual step of publicly insisting that a U.K. businessman who died in suspicious circumstances in China was not working as a British spy....

Cambodian environmentalist killed

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Leading Cambodian environmentalist Chut Wutty is shot dead in an apparent shoot-out with police while investigating illegal logging.
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Threats 'shock' SFA panel member

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
Eric Drysdale says the reaction to his part in the SFA decision to ban Rangers from transfers for a year has come as "a shock".
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Political battle over student loans heating up

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Democratic leader accused Republicans Thursday of raiding women's programs to pay for a bill keeping student loan interest rates low in an election-year battle over college aid....
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