Tax boss: 'No need to say sorry'
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:02:43 GMT
The UK's top tax man says he has no need to apologise after taking the wrong amount of tax from six million people.
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Obama pleads for Koran row calm
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:18:15 GMT
President Obama makes a plea for religious tolerance, as a church threatening to burn the Koran demands contact with a New York imam.
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Dowling wins Ultimate Big Brother
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:54:03 GMT
Former air steward Brian Dowling has been crowned the winner of Ultimate Big Brother as the Channel 4 reality show comes to an end.
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Royal Mail sell-off is confirmed
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:45:59 GMT
The government confirms it is to press ahead with a complete sale of Royal Mail, following an updated review of the postal service.
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MPs 'held back' on phone inquiry
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:50:02 GMT
MPs held back in an inquiry into phone-hacking allegations for fear that their own private lives could be targeted, a former MP claims.
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Sex victims meet before Pope tour
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:29:53 GMT
Men and women who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests are to hold a conference ahead of the Pope's British visit.
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Musharraf 'to return' to Pakistan
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:54:22 GMT
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells the BBC he wants to start a new political party and run for president.
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Wayne Rooney requesting privacy
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:39:40 GMT
Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen ask the media to respect their privacy while they discuss newspaper allegations about the footballer.
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40,000 police jobs 'threatened'
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:32:39 GMT
As many as 40,000 front-line police jobs may be at risk across England and Wales if funding cuts of 25% go ahead, the Police Federation says.
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DR Congo bans 'conflict mining'
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:05:51 GMT
President Kabila bans mining in three provinces of DR Congo to allow the government to tackle a "mafia" controlling the trade.
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Several die in California blast
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:22:52 GMT
At least four people have been killed in an explosion which tore through a town near San Francisco, officials say.
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Huge fire at construction site
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:56:09 GMT
More than 100 firefighters tackle a major fire at a timber-framed block of flats under construction in Hampshire.
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Lifeboat crew rescues man and wheelie bin
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:15:09 GMT
Lifeboat crews made a most unusual rescue off the coast of Anglesey - an 81-year-old man and his wheelie bin.
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Culloden battle map to go on public display
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:37:40 GMT
A plan of the Battle of Culloden drawn two years after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat is to go on display in Inverness.
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Ferguson brushes off Rooney talk
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:06:01 GMT
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and Everton manager David Moyes refuse to be drawn on Wayne Rooney's off-field problems as the troubled striker returns to face his former club on Saturday.
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