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Three guilty of teen sex slave abuse

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:59
Three men are found guilty of abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to become their sex slave.

Reeva Steenkamp: Remembering a friend

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:52
Best friend on model’s last hours and planned Oscar Pistorius gift

Father in Facebook legal challenge

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:39
A Northern Ireland man launches a legal challenge to compel Facebook to stop his 13-year-old daughter using the site or publishing images on it.

Death blaze dad 'laughed and joked'

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:25
A father accused of killing his six children in a house fire joked about the night of the blaze to a police officer, a court hears.

Probe after climber dies in rescue

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:25
Police are investigating the death of a climber who died during an operation to rescue him on Ben Nevis.

Colder weather boosts British Gas

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:21
Centrica says profits from British Gas' residential energy supply rose 11% to £606m last year, as colder weather meant people used more gas.

Farmers say 'sell more British meat'

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:19
Farming leaders call on supermarkets to stop scouring the world for the cheapest food and support British products.

VIDEO: World's oldest woman is 114

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:16
The world's oldest woman has officially been named as Misao Okawa, who is 114 years old and lives in the western Japanese city of Osaka.

Commentators' views: Is Parliament sexist?

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:14
What pundits say about sexism at Westminster

Pilot badger culls to go ahead

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:11
Badger culls are set to go ahead later this year after final licence conditions were met, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson announces.

Tributes paid to balloon victims

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:10
Neighbours, relatives and friends pay tribute to the victims of the Egypt hot air balloon tragedy.

McGinley challenges Scots players

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:05
European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley challenges Scotland's golfers to make the team for Gleneagles in 2014.

Illegal school exclusion frustration

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 07:02
The children's commissioner is frustrated at the slow progress being made by the Welsh government in tackling unlawful exclusions from schools.

Pope appoints O'Brien's replacement

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 06:45
The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, is put in temporary charge of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

Girl, 14, raped while walking home

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 06:01
A 14-year-old girl was left so traumatised after being raped while walking home that she was only able to contact police more than a year later.

Willetts urges universities online

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 06:00
UK universities should invest in online courses if they are to take advantage of an "historic opportunity", said Universities Minister David Willetts.

Holograph help for firefighters

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 06:00
Infra-red holography could be used to help firefighters locate people trapped in fires, researchers say.

Pryce 'suicidal' when Huhne left

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 05:57
Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of former Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne, tells her retrial she was not thinking straight when she went to newspapers with the speeding points story.

Why do we fib in surveys?

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 05:56
Many people are under-reporting how much alcohol they are drinking. But what else are we fibbing to researchers about and why do we do it?

Hagel sworn in as defence secretary

BBC - Wed, 2013-02-27 05:56
Chuck Hagel is sworn in as the new US defence secretary, a day after the Senate approved his appointment following a bruising nomination battle.
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