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Daily Mail (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Science

At least a quarter of the world's mammals are at serious risk of extinction, a report has revealed.

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Seven years for footballer who killed brothers in 100mph drink-drive crash

The Guardian (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Sport

Professional player jailed for causing death of children while driving drunk and jetlagged

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Wendy Richard - Tv Star Richard Dying Of Cancer

Contactmusic Ltd (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment

Beloved British TV actress WENDY RICHARD has revealed she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer - but will marry for a fourth time before she dies. The Are You ...

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'Tangled love life' led to police chief's death

Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | UK

THE widow of police chief Michael Todd said yesterday she has "forgiven him" after an inquest heard his tangled love life led to his death.

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Safer prenatal Down's syndrome test found in U.S.

Reuters UK (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prenatal blood test can be used to determine if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome without the small risk to the foetus posed by invasive testing methods such as amniocentesis, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Deal does not guarantee Poland Euro 2012

Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International

POLAND are not yet assured of co-hosting Euro 2012, despite avoiding immediate Fifa sanctions over the suspension of their football association.

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Need to know: Rolls-Royce wins contract ... Euro tumbles ... Corus down

Times Online (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Money

Central banks around the world announced massive and immediate injections of funds in an attempt to calm financial market turmoil and unblock moneymarkets. Markets slump Shares fell across the globe as the financial turmoil intensified. The FTSE 100 tumbled by 7.8 per cent, the third-biggest fall on record, to close at 4,589.2 points. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 3.6 per cent to close below...

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De Menezes mother breaks down as top officer tells of 'awful tragedy'

Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | UK

THE senior policewoman who led the operation that ended in Jean Charles de Menezes's death choked back tears yesterday as she revealed she thought about what happened eve

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Gardener who lost job cleared of spray attack

The Guardian (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | UK

Gardener accused of poisoning a retired high court judge's cherished flower border found not guilty

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Tamil Tiger suicide bomber kills dozens in northern Sri Lanka

The Telegraph (subscribe) | yesterday | International

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber has killed 27 people including a highly decorated former general and wounded another 80 in northern Sri Lanka.

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Closing Post Offices? Now?

Tax Research UK (subscribe) | yesterday | Other

The Observer has reported: Ministers have admitted that thousands more post offices will crash out of business - in addition to the 2,500 that have already closed - if a contract for handling state pensions and benefits is not given to the Royal Mail. A long-awaited decision on who wins the tender to run the successor to [...]

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The Beer-filled USB Drive

Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 05/10/2008 | Technology

Letâ€™s say that youâ€™ve run out of beer and for some awful reason you canâ€™t go get more. What could possibly taunt you more than a beer filled USB drive? I swear it would not surprise me in the least to see a news bulletin somewhere, where a guy decided to try to suck the beer out of his USB drive. Itâ€™d likely start with one guy either daring or offering up some small fund to do it, like a dollar. It...

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A Question for Constitutional Experts

Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

Remember the problems Tony Blair encountered when he tried to abolish the post of Lord Chancellor and found he needed to legislate in order to do so? Well, a similar thing happened last week. The PM wanted to abolish the posts of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland Secretaries and create a new Department of the Nations, but then found he couldn't when government lawyers said they too could not be...

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London We have A Nuclear Problem

<B>Power and Control</B> (subscribe) | yesterday | UK

It seems the Brits have built a number of shoddy nuclear plants . The results may be electrical shortages this winter. In theory, at least, Britain now has 10 operating nuclear power stations, stretching from Torness on the Firth of Forth to Dungeness on the south Kent coast. Each has two reactors, and ministers boast that they supply about one-fifth of the power that keeps the lights on. The reality,...

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Mad Maddie Bunting goes madder

The Devil's Kitchen (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

As silly comments go, Maddy Bunting's idiocy is generally good for a giggle. So thanks to the email correspondant who pointed out this quite, quite brilliant article, containing a quite nervously brilliant quote ... Hayek became the founding father of a model of economic management which has brought us to the current crisis; Polanyi, with extraordinary prescience, warned that the crisis would come;...

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