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Police efficiency quango pays for chief’s flat – and the tax bill
Posted on January 9, 2010
A police chief faces questions over his personal tax bill after The Times discovered that the quango he heads pays both the rent on his luxury London apartment and the income tax incurred by the perk.
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Fall of the house of Robinson
Posted on January 9, 2010
The career of Northern Ireland's no-nonsense First Minister is on the line as the Democratic Unionist Party expels his wife after she passed £50,000 to her teenage love
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    Fault line that allows al-Qa'ida to flourish in Yemen
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Two decades of unification have failed to heal a regional rivalry that has hindered the country's efforts to root out the extremists. Donald Macintyre reports from Aden.
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    • Bomber Who Killed C.I.A. Officers Appears in Video
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    AMMAN, Jordan — The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven Central Intelligence Agency operatives in Afghanistan last month appeared in a video early Saturday, saying the attack was carried out in revenge for the 2009 killing of the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
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    • Independent Appeal: Saved from the agony of female circumcision
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    This is Hanna Abera. She is seven. Her mother and grandmother wanted to slice off part of her genitals. But she was saved by an extraordinarily brave intervention from her aunt after a British charity launched a programme of education on the consequences of female circumcision – which is still widely practised throughout parts of Africa and the Middle East.
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    English invasion 'threatens French language more than Nazis did'
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    The invasion of English words poses more of a "grave threat" to French national identity than the imposition of German under the Nazi occupation, according to a group of self-styled guardians of the French language.
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Football
  • Rugby
    • Tennis
    • Other sport
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    • Weekend Travel Guide
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Independent
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    • Weekend Cinema: Film News and Reviews
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Independent
    •Telegraph
    •New York Times
    •Guardian
    •Times
    •Film trailers
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    • Weekend Book Reviews
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Independent
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    • ‘We regret driving out the British,’ say Aden’s former rebels
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    “I am sorry about what happened,” said Ahmed Mighali Said, 77, who fought the British Army in the bloody four-year uprising known as the Aden Emergency, which ended with Britain’s withdrawal in 1967. “Under the British we had peace. The Yemeni fighters were ignorant. I hope the British come back. 
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    Immigrant riots rock southern Italian town as tensions explode
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Simmering racial tensions in southern Italy have exploded into violence, with hundreds of African immigrants rioting in the Calabrian town of Rosarno.
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    Bonus time as banks pay out £40bn
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    The world's biggest investment banks are expected to pay out more than $65bn (£40bn) in salaries and bonuses in the next two weeks, reinforcing the view that it is business as usual on Wall Street and in the City barely a year since the taxpayer bailout of the banking system.
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    A-level examinations must go on despite the snow, schools are warned
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    The exams regulator and awarding bodies insisted that A-level modules and GCSE exams should go ahead, dismissing calls for them to be delayed because of the forecast of more snow.
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    Met Office 'experts' admit they failed to predict Big Freeze as icy blast heralds even more snow
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    The big freeze felt even colder today after bitter winds from northern Europe sent temperatures plummeting even further and heralded more big snowfalls. Conditions are expected to be freezing virtually everywhere during the day, but forecasters said it would feel much, much colder because of icy blasts sweeping in from Scandinavia and Germany.

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    • British troops set to hand frontline Afghanistan role to US
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    As thousands of Americans pour into southern Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s surge, defence chiefs are considering plans to cede control, such as it is, to US Marines so that the British can concentrate on securing the centre of the war-torn province.
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    The First Lady, her young lover, and a scandal that could hand power to Sinn Fein
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    David McKittrick reports on the far-reaching consequences of Iris Robinson’s infidelity.
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    Britain faces ‘toughest cuts for 20 years’
    Posted on January 9, 2010
    Darling and Mandelson win election policy battle with weakened PM.
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