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How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Posted on July 27, 2009
When I contemplate the above sum, I have to remind myself what I'm being charged with. Investment fraud? An attack against the government? No. I shared music. And refused to cave.
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    Credit card crisis to grip Britain, IMF warns
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Britain’s credit card debt crisis will get significantly worse in the coming months with a wave of consumer payment defaults, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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    The women who clear Sudan's minefields
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Jamba Besta had planned to be a secretary, hoping to find work in an office as her homeland of South Sudan emerged out of a 22-year long civil war. Instead, the pregnant mother heads an all-female team of de-miners, removing dangerous explosives from former battlefields.
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    Australia gets the hump – and reaches for the gun to settle its camel question
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Brought to the country as beasts of burden in 1840, today there are one million camels eating the outback
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    More than 20,000 take to streets to protest Johnnie Walker plant closure
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Thousands of people took to the streets yesterday (sun) to protest a decision by Diageo, the drinks giant, to shuts its Johnnie Walker bottling plant.
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    Simon Carr: Why can't the PM ever be straight?
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    "If you are away for a week, you notice how your children change and you have got to re-win their interest. It's important you understand you have got to spend time with your children."
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    This was the war that shaped our world
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    The death of Harry Patch makes me think of my father and the debt we all owe to their generation
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    Doctors face 'playing God' over who lives or dies if swine flu overwhelms NHS
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Thousands of patients could be denied NHS treatment and left to die under 'worst-case' emergency plans for a swine-flu epidemic. The blueprint would force doctors to 'play God' and prioritise intensive-care treatment for those most likely to benefit  -  ruling out patients with problems such as advanced cancer.
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    Mandelson in tuition fee pledge
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    If universities in England are allowed to raise tuition fees, they must protect access for poorer applicants, says Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
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    After the Olympic games: Tough task to change the outlook in east London
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Barcelona stands alone among modern Olympic hosts in succeeding in using the games to not only boost its profile and host the biggest sporting show on earth but to regenerate rundown parts of the city.
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    Insurers could take on £17bn of state benefits
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    The UK's biggest insurance companies could take on welfare state payments of about £17bn from the Government under radical proposals outlined today.
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    Weekend Sport Report
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Hungarian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton clinches first win of season in Hungary
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    Tour de France Final Report
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    Mark Cavendish makes history in Paris as Alberto Contador seals win
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    British pensioners among Europe's poorest
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    The number of pensioners living in poverty in Britain is among the highest in Europe with the over-65s in poorer countries, including Romania and Poland faring better, official figures have shown.
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    £1bn tax raid on middle classes as Cameron warns they must share pain of spending cuts
    Posted on July 27, 2009
    David Cameron warned yesterday that the better-off must share the pain of repairing public finances. He said tax credits for households on £50,000 a year or more could no longer be justified.
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