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Audio slideshow: South African paramedics

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Sound and images of a South African paramedic's life
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A vote of confidence in Burma

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Why the world is watching by-elections in Burma
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Voters deciding in Bradford West

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Voters in Bradford West are going to the polls to make their decision in a by-election prompted by the resignation of the constituency's MP.
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NHS savings progress questioned

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Doubts are being raised over government claims that the NHS in England is making good progress on its savings target.
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'Dozens killed' in Libya clashes

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Fighting between rival militias around the southern Libyan town of Sabha leaves at least 70 people dead, officials say.
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Cancer 'encyclopaedia' published

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
The first volume of a "book of cancer knowledge" has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs.
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DSK lawyers assert diplomatic immunity

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Lawyers for former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged a judge on Wednesday to dismiss a civil suit brought against him by the New York hotel housekeeper who accused him of assaulting her last year.
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Rape allegation against prince tossed

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
A Spanish court on Wednesday dismissed an allegation that one of the world's richest men, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, raped a young woman on a yacht on the island of Ibiza in 2008.
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Salvadoran leader: I wasn't involved in gang truce

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- The president of El Salvador denied Wednesday that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited with a dramatic drop in the staggering national homicide rate....

Opinion: Why Tibetans burn themselves

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Costica Bradatan: A Tunisian set himself afire and brought on Arab spring. Why don't 30 Tibetan self-immolations bring on dramatic change?
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Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Biden says Romney 'consistently wrong' on jobs

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

Is Brighton the next Maastricht?

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Will Brighton become an international treaty legend?
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Did Capt Scott's diet play part in death?

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 19:40
Did Captain Scott's diet contribute to his death?
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