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VIDEO: Bolshoi acid attack 'was a mistake'

Thu, 2013-03-07 04:39
A Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused over an attack on artistic director Sergei Filin has told a court he did not mean for him to be splashed with acid.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Economy: TINA is back

Thu, 2013-03-07 04:38
Nick Robinson explains why Mrs Thatcher's phrase is back
Categories: International News, National / International News

School checks 'show improvement'

Thu, 2013-03-07 04:32
Almost half the schools inspected in England last term improved their overall rating, the chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Households renting 'rises to 15%'

Thu, 2013-03-07 04:30
The proportion of people renting from private landlords in Britain rose from 10% to 15% between 2008 and 2011, the Office for National Statistics says.
Categories: International News, National / International News

UK smoking 'halves' in 40 years

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Suspect held over Ukraine beheadings

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: New Pope's robes made in S, M and L

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Closing NHS services: the impossible job?

Thu, 2013-03-07 04:06
Nick Triggle on how difficult it is for the NHS to reorganise services
Categories: International News, National / International News

End student visa loopholes - Labour

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Call to name 'horsemeat supplier'

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Authors make libel reform plea

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Fears over missing Pakistan climbers

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: 'Monster' marlin landed by landlord

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Ill daughter's fund donated to boy

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

French mother tried for 9/11 T-shirt

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".
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: House of Commons

Thu, 2013-03-07 03:24
The government resists calls from Labour to name a firm that supplied beef containing horsemeat.
Categories: International News, National / International News

'13,000 EU migrants' report defended

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".
Categories: International News, National / International News

Malaysia rejects Filipino ceasefire

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Syria unrest 'wrecks health system'

Thu, 2013-03-07 03:09
Syria's health system has collapsed after two years of conflict, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Pavey to miss World Championships

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.
Categories: International News, National / International News
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