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Passengers tell of being thrown into the ceiling after Qantas mid-air 'incident' injures...

Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | International

  Passengers on a Qantas airbus that suddenly plunged thousands of feet have told of people breaking bones as they were thrown into while the pilot battled to bring the plane down.

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Thai clashes kill 2 in Bangkok and hundreds injured

Reuters UK (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | International

  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades after a day of street battles with anti-government protesters on Tuesday in which two people were killed and nearly 400 were injured.

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RBS shares drop below £1 as banking sector falls sharply

The Herald (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Economy

  Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled today as speculation over its funding position deepened during another day of market turmoil.

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Church Warns On The Perils Of Inhaling Gay Men

Anorak News (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Money

  THE Rev Peter Mullen is chaplain to the London Stock Exchange and environs. He smells a gay man. Mullen says: “Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.†Hurrah! A free tattoo for every gay man! Well, the church [...]

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VICTORY OVER DEFEATISM...

Tangled Blog (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | International

  I'm with the view of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates when he states that Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won. The comments by the officials from Britain, a key ally to the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq, were echoed by the top United Nations official in Kabul, who said success was only possible through dialogue...

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Government Scheme Will Monitor All Communications In The UK

Gizmodo UK (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | UK Politics

  If yesterday's talk of identity theft made you nervous, you're not going to like a new £12billion project to monitor the UK's communications network. Top-secret plans were recently leaked of a new scheme to monitor all telephone calls, emails and text messages in Britain, with hundreds of bugging probes set to be installed in telephone systems and computer networks. The GCHQ spy center has already...

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Russian forces to begin pull-out from Georgian buffer zone

Belfast Telegraph (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International

  Russian forces will begin withdrawing from a buffer zone in Georgia tomorrow and be out within 24 hours.

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Seven years for death crash keeper

Manchester Online (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Sport

  A DRUNKEN professional footballer was jailed for seven years today for killing two young boys as he drove "like an idiot".Arron Peak, 10, and his brother Ben, eight, were on a dream day out when former Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick ploughed into their car in his powerful black Range Rover.McCormick, who was more than twice the drink drive limit as he drove home from a team-mate's wedding,...

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Boris Johnson on trial after Police Commissioner’s departure

Liberal Democrat Voice (subscribe) | 13 hours ago | UK Politics

  In his first meeting as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority yesterday, Boris Johnson faced criticism for causing Sir Ian Blair’s resignation. Johnson maintained that he had sought the opinion of “a great many†of the MPA’s members. However, the majority of MPA members said that they had not been consulted about the Mayor’s decision [...]

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NO CRITICISM ALLOWED

Tangled Blog (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International

  Kenya, that beacon of liberty and freedom, has arrested and then deported Jerome Corsi, the author of Obama Nation, a consistently unflattering depiction of the Democratic presidential candidate. Corsi missed his own book launch in Nairobi today after Kenyan police arrested him on immigration charges and whisked him to the airport for deportation. Jerome Corsi was taken from his hotel early today,...

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October 6: Happy birthday Brown’s biggest cock-up!

politicalbetting.com (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

  Is Jackie Ashley right - is it now “Emergency Labourâ€? I thought that we could not let this day pass by without recalling that it was exactly a year ago, on October 6th 2007, that Gordon Brown recorded his fateful interview with Andrew Marr calling off a late autumn general election. Everything about the current political [...]

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Racism - a useful excuse when your career hits the buffers

Pub Philosopher (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

  As Boris Johnson orders yet another inquiry into racism in the Metropolitan Police Force and the Black Police Association launches a campaign to discourage black people from joining the police, tonight's BBC's Panorama programme will claim that 60% of the...

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What to make of Monday?

Free Exchange (subscribe) | yesterday | Film

  As the insta-analysis develops...

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naked capitalism (subscribe) | yesterday | Food and Wine

  Register to vote October 6 is your last chance in a many states. No Naked Black Holes Science News. No crude comments, since it took some effort to restrain myself. Birth of an Ocean: The Evolution of Ethiopia's Afar Depression Scientific American Starbucks 'wastes 23 million litres of water a day' Telegraph Short shrift James Mackintosh, Financial Times. A good overview of the politics and practicalities...

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Prodicus (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

  ... that great economic sophisticate Polly Toynbee, who would like Gordon Brown to govern with his bile duct. Nice one, Mr Anderson .

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