International News

UK smoking 'halves' in 40 years

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:27
Smoking in Britain has more than halved and people are drinking on fewer nights of the week, according to a snapshot survey covering the past 40 years.
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Suspect held over Ukraine beheadings

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:25
Police in Ukraine detain a suspect over the beheading of a judge and his family in their flat in December, in what may have been a drug-related robbery.
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VIDEO: New Pope's robes made in S, M and L

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:23
It has yet to be decided who the new Pope will be, but the robes that the next leader of the Catholic Church will wear have already been designed and made in Italy.
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Closing NHS services: the impossible job?

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:06
Nick Triggle on how difficult it is for the NHS to reorganise services
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End student visa loopholes - Labour

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:05
Student visa loopholes are allowing tens of thousands of people to enter the UK without any checks, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says.
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Call to name 'horsemeat supplier'

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:05
The government is urged to name a meat producer involved in supplying food containing horsemeat to schools and the armed forces.
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Authors make libel reform plea

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 04:05
Writers including Sir Salman Rushdie and Stephen Fry sign a letter urging the UK's major political parties not to abandon libel reforms.
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Fears over missing Pakistan climbers

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:58
Hopes of finding two missing mountaineers in Pakistan alive are fading after they went missing while scaling a peak of more than 8,000m.
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VIDEO: 'Monster' marlin landed by landlord

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:56
A pub landlord from Norfolk is celebrating after claiming to land a "monster" blue marlin fish with just a rod and a line.
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Ill daughter's fund donated to boy

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:51
A couple who raised £22,500 to help their seriously ill daughter are giving the money to a boy they have never met because her condition is incurable.
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French mother tried for 9/11 T-shirt

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:35
A French mother goes on trial for sending her son, named Jihad, to nursery school wearing a T-shirt reading "I am a bomb" and "Born on 11 September".
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VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:24
The government resists calls from Labour to name a firm that supplied beef containing horsemeat.
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'13,000 EU migrants' report defended

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:17
The economist whose report led to expectations 13,000 people from new EU countries in 2004 would move to the UK, denies it was "spectacularly wrong".
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Malaysia rejects Filipino ceasefire

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:16
Malaysia rejects a call for a ceasefire in Sabah state to end an incursion by a group of Filipinos who say the land belongs to them.
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Syria unrest 'wrecks health system'

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:09
Syria's health system has collapsed after two years of conflict, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.
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Pavey to miss World Championships

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 03:06
Great Britain's Jo Pavey will miss this summer's World Athletics Championships as she is expecting her second baby.
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Frozen phones give up data secrets

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 02:59
Putting an Android phone in a freezer for an hour can help get at its confidential contents, find German security researchers.
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Police lose football costs appeal

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 02:59
West Yorkshire Police loses appeal case over the costs policing of matches at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium.
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John Lewis announces 17% staff bonus

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 02:40
Department store group John Lewis announces a 17% bonus for staff after reporting a rise in annual profits.
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Vince Cable's plan B: a "matter of judgment"

BBC - Thu, 2013-03-07 02:35
Stephanie Flanders says Cable's plan B is a 'matter of judgment'
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