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Tour de France
Posted on July 10, 2009
Thor Hushovd grabs Tour De France win but day belongs to David Millar
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    The Ashes Report
    Posted on July 10, 2009
     Ricky Ponting and Simon Katich put Australia on top with centuries
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    Who’s afraid of billions of people?
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    In the run-up to the UN’s World Population Day, spiked argues against all attempts to cajole, coerce or convince people into having fewer kids.
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    Power to the people
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    John Stuart Mill’s classic treatise On Liberty, published 150 years ago, has much to teach an intellectually exhausted left.
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    'At least I was wearing underwear': Emma Watson laughs off wardrobe malfunction on Letterman
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    She displayed a little more than she planned to at the world premiere of the latest Harry Potter film in London this week. But Emma Watson has managed to make light of the wardrobe error which revealed her knickers to a crowd of thousands.
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    An affront to British justice: Gagged, the MPs who want to support Gary McKinnon
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    House of Commons officials have been accused of 'gagging' MPs who want to speak in support of autistic Gary McKinnon. They banned a motion yesterday that urged the Government to halt the extradition of the Asperger's sufferer to the U.S, where he faces 60 years in jail for hacking into Nasa and Pentagon computers.
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    The Royal Family
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Does the monarchy still matter?
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    Get tough with Russia, MPs urge
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    The UK and other Nato members should take a tougher approach to Russia, the Commons Defence Committee has urged.
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    Steve Richards: There's trouble when the spin doctor becomes part of the story
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    It was only a matter of time before Andy Coulson became a news story. Coulson is David Cameron's Director of Communications or chief spin doctor. In Britain spin doctors tend to generate an irrationally intense interest, at least in the media.
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    Frail Kim Jong-il 'may only have months to live'
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Kim Jong-il is seriously ill and is likely to be dead before the end of the year, according to a source within the North Korean leader's own family.
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    More than 300 people injured in China earthquake
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    The 6.0 magnitude quake in China's southwest also collapsed 10,000 homes and damaged another 30,000.
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    Tale of two boy soldiers who joined up together: Barely 18, on their first day of action in Afghanistan, still together, one was wounded, the other killed
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Exactly a week ago, having barely turned 18, they went into battle for the first time - together, of course. They were at the spearhead of the biggest British ground offensive against the Taliban, Operation Panther's Claw, when fate flipped a coin.  One friend was wounded but survived; the other did not. Yesterday Danny Eaglesfield was recovering from minor wounds.
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    Tamil death toll ‘is 1,400 a week’ at Manik Farm camp in Sri Lanka
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times.
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    Smoke dope and save the state of California, dude
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of legalised marijuana are making perhaps their most extravagant claim yet: that the drug can solve California's spiralling financial crisis.
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    NHS ‘not ready’ to deal with swine flu epidemic, leaked memo reveals
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Emergency plans for dealing with a predicted surge in swine flu are muddled and contradictory, a leaked memo from the health service warns.
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    Laughing all the way to the bank
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Wall Street and the City of London - the world's two major financial centres - declare it is "business as usual" again... They are hiring, poaching each other's staff and their profits are soaring. This is "back to business as usual" with bells on. The financial crisis has been the best thing that could happen for these banks.
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    Tehran in flames as protesters defy brutal tactics by police and militiamen
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    The Iranian regime warned that any demonstrations would be mercilessly crushed, and meant it. As darkness fell on baking, dust-shrouded Tehran tonight an army of riot police and hardline basiji militiamen used batons, gun butts and tear gas to beat back thousands of Iranians converging on the city centre.
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    Running of the bulls in Pamplona: day three of the San Fermin festival
    Posted on July 10, 2009
    Obviously the Spanish haven't heard of 'elf and safety' or the dreaded 'risk assessment'.
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