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Fitch warns Britain and questions Greek rescue as sovereign risks grow
Posted on March 10, 2010
Fitch Ratings has delivered a serious blow to the credibility of the Government's budget plans, warning that Britain risks a loss of investor confidence and erosion of its AAA rating unless it maps out clear austerity measures.
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    Why I want to stay a single mother
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Since having her first child at 17, Jo Middleton has not found Mr Right. Now in her thirties, she has given up on dating
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    Nine out of 10 young families in London cannot afford home
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Analysis by a government housing advisory body found that as an average figure across the capital only 10 per cent of young families could afford to buy a suitable home.
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    Sir James Dyson plan to fill UK's engineering vacuum
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    A radical set of proposals aimed at rebuilding Britain's manufacturing and technology industries and helping pull Britain out recession have been published by Sir James Dyson, the vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur.
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    Biden sees 'moment of opportunity' for Mid-East peace
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    US Vice-President Joe Biden has said there is a "moment of real opportunity" for peace between the Palestinians and Israel during a visit to the region.

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    Spain’s drug consumption on the rise, despite authorities’ struggle
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Spanish police recently seized over a tonne of cocaine. But despite the authorities’ struggle, the country’s demand for recreational drugs remains the highest in Europe.
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    Point Omega--Leo Robson
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Twenty-five years ago, in White Noise, Don DeLillo perfected a distinctive, paranoid style. His new novel is a distant echo of that masterpiece.
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    Exclusive: Lord Paul to end his non-domiciled tax status--Medhi Hasan
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    In an exclusive interview with the New Statesman, Labour peer and longtime party donor, Lord Paul of Marylebone, says he is to end his controversial "non-dom" tax status. He says:
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    Fjord Focus--Nicky Gardner
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    The financial crash of 2008 haunts the remote tundra east of Reykjavik.
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    Asia review
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West’s intelligence secrets
  • China picks mothers for astronaut training              
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    • 'Terror threat' in Malacca Straits
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Defence officials in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have increased sea and air patrols in the Straits of Malacca, after Singapore authorities warned that attacks were being planned in the area's shipping lanes.
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    • Winnie Mandela accuses Nelson of letting down South Africa's blacks
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    In a strongly-worded attack she claimed that Nelson Mandela had failed to help the poor, instead becoming a "corporate foundation" who only ever appeared in public to raise money for the ANC political party.
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    • Vatican secrecy ‘let German school abusers go unpunished’
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Germany has blamed a “wall of silence” created by the Vatican for hampering investigations into decades of abuse of schoolchildren by Catholic clergy.
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    Nigerians bury massacre victims
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group.
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    • Call for universities to be able to charge unlimited tuition fees
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Universities should be given the freedom to charge students whatever tuition fee they like, the body representing the country's 750 largest employers of graduates will say today.
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    True scale of violent crime rise revealed
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Violent attacks are estimated to be 44 per cent higher than they were in 1998 after research on the way police record them allowed comparisons for the first time. The study, by the independent House of Commons Library, shows violence against the person increased from 618,417 to 887,942 last year.

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    Labour and Tories neck and neck in marginals
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Labour and the Conservatives are neck and neck in the marginal seats that will determine the outcome of the general election, raising doubts over David Cameron’s ability to win a clear overall majority, according to a special poll for The Times.
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
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    • Shaming of the NHS: Patients STILL treated in kitchens, abandoned in mop cupboards and left without meals despite Labour's billions
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Patients are routinely being treated in kitchens, mop cupboards and corridors because hospitals are so overcrowded, a shocking survey reveals. Third World conditions are commonplace, with hospitals housing patients for days in storage areas, offices, TV rooms and outpatient clinics.
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    Dog owners facing tough new insurance regulations
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Dog owners could be required to insure themselves against the risk of their pet attacking someone, it was announced today.
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Football:
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    • Daughter of Dick Cheney considering running for office
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Liz Cheney, a mother of five children, has become one of the sharpest and most outspoken critics of the new White House and has needled the Obama administration for failing to protect the nation against terrorism, and mollycoddling terror suspects while pursuing government lawyers who approved water-boarding, a method of inquisition she approves of. She called the president's Nobel Peace prize a "farce".
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    • Iraqi doctors demand cancer probe
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Iraqi doctors believe depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion is spreading cancer through the population. 
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    • Iraq poll turnout tops 60 per cent despite attacks
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Turnout in yesterday's parliamentary election in Iraq reached 62.4 per cent despite a concerted effort to intimidate voters and scare them away from polling stations.
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    • MPs back strike over civil service redundancy pay
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Union leaders clashed with the Government tonight over the effect of a strike by civil servants. The Public and Commercial Services union claimed more than 200,000 employees had walked out causing "widespread disruption" to services.
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    Death toll in Turkey earthquake reaches 57: report
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    ANKARA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported.

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    Green Oscars
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Once again, a handful of green films will be competing for this year's Academy Awards.
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    • Americas review
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Starbucks sticks to its guns
  • Studying life in Ecuador            
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    Europe may consider IMF-style institution to avoid next Greek crisis
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    The eurozone should consider creating an institution similar to the International Monetary Fund to avoid another Greek crisis, Germany's finance minister has said.
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    Deadly blast rocks Pakistani city
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    A bomb has gone off outside a buliding housing a federal investigative agency in Pakistan's city of Lahore, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 60 others, police and government officials said.  
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