US police have released details of a 911 call from a panicked driver after the accelerator in his Prius became stuck on a busy freeway
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YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been barred from standing in polls this yearand may be excluded from her own party under the military junta's new election laws unveiled on Wednesday.
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PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels.
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A television station in Georgia has shown what it says is the world's oldest person, playing backgammon and drinking vodka.
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JOS, Nigeria (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria on Wednesday after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.
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France's flamboyant, diminutive President and his younger pop star wife are allegedly both having affairs, according to some of France's most reputable webzines.
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CAIRO (AFP) - Sunni Islam's top cleric Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, a controversial figure in Egypt, died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack suffered while boarding a plane, state media said.
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Thousands of Nigerians marched to the gates of the presidential villa on Wednesday to demand an end to the presidency of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua so Acting President Goodluck Jonathan can take over as head of state.
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LONDON (Reuters) - There is no case for emergency action to crack down on naked selling of credit default swaps, as called for by some EU states, Britain's Financial Services Authority said on Wednesday.
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Blue comic Roy 'Chubby' Brown hit a 21-year-old woman in the face during a foul-mouthed dispute in a supermarket car park, a court has been told.
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Patients' confidential medical records are being put online without their knowledge, according to the British Medical Association.
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Nationalised lender Northern Rock is to pay out £14.9m in bonuses after a sharp reduction in losses last year.
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A man has pleaded for the Justice Secretary to reveal Jon Venables' identity after he was wrongly accused of being the James Bulger killer.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's recovery from the worst recession in decades is gaining traction but confused economic data and the high risk of a hung parliament could yet snuff out its momentum, a monthly Reuters poll showed.
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Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians will be able to cruise almost every inch of Britain from the comfort of their own laptop when Google extends its street-level imaging service this week.
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Gordon Brown has been challenged over his evidence to the Iraq inquiry during a heated exchange at Prime Minister's Questions.
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Gordon Brown has been challenged over his evidence to the Iraq inquiry during a heated exchange at Prime Minister's Questions.
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A man has pleaded for the Justice Secretary to reveal Jon Venables' identity after he was wrongly accused of being the James Bulger killer.
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Extra paperwork is making stretched social work teams struggle even more to keep control over their casework, council leaders have warned.
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Gordon Brown has laid out his vision for Britain's recovery in a major speech on the economy, but the threat of further public sector strikes is reminding voters of the spending cuts still to come.
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Heckling from Labour backbenches framed the exchanges between the during prime minister's question time today, as the party leaders clashed over defence spending.
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Prime minister Gordon Brown answered questions from backbencher MPs on the tax affairs of Lord Ashcroft, military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan and his economic plans.
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LONDON (AFP) - Publicist Max Clifford accepted more than £1 million from the News of the World in return for ending legal action over a phone-hacking scandal, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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LONDON (AFP) - Not enough is being done to rehabilitate serial offenders who are costing taxpayers up to £10 billion a year, the public spending watchdog said on Wednesday.
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MI5's former head Eliza Manningham-Buller did not know about the waterboarding of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed until 2007, she has claimed.
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Prison overcrowding and poor management have been blamed for the limited progress prisoners serving short sentences make towards rehabilitation while in jail, a report has found.
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LONDON (AFP) - The government will unveil a pre-election budget in two weeks' time, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, fuelling expectations of legislative ballots in May.
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Gordon Brown has confirmed the Budget will be held in "two weeks' time", ending speculation about an early general election.
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FRANKFURT (AFP) - Controversy over the future of the eurozone after the Greek crisis is at a new pitch over ideas for a rescue fund.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Rock shrank its losses in 2009, helped by lower bad debts in the second half, and said it would return to bonus payments for all staff, with employees sharing just over 13 million pounds.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is ahead of schedule with plans to tame its budget deficit and there has been no slippage in moves to rein in spending, the government said in a report submitted to the European Union.
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Nationalised lender Northern Rock is to pay out £14.9m in bonuses after a sharp reduction in losses last year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling will present his third, and possibly final, budget statement to parliament on March 24, just weeks before a national election widely expected to take place on May 6.
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LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices firmed on Wednesday before the eagerly-awaited weekly snapshot on US energy inventories in leading consumer the United States.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The financial crisis has subsided but recovery is only gradual and vulnerabilities built up in past years remain, Britain's financial watchdog said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to force banks to reveal how many of their staff get high pay packages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said on Wednesday.
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VIENNA (AFP) - The OPEC oil producers' cartel on Wednesday slightly upgraded its forecast for modest growth in world oil demand this year but warned that the slow pace of economic recovery was clouding the outlook.
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LONDON (Reuters) - EMI Music, which is seeking new funds to avoid breaching debt covenants, said Chief Executive Elio Leoni-Sceti would step down shortly, just a month after he was tasked with finding a new business plan.
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