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Call for GCSE languages regrade |
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Summary: Head teachers and language experts say it is harder to get good grades in modern languages than other GCSEs. |
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5:59am PST |
EU Kosovo mission branded illegal |
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Summary: Russia denounces the EU's planned police and justice mission to Kosovo as a breach of international law. |
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5:55am PST |
China media, public angered by Spielberg
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Summary: AP - Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media and a groundswell of criticism from the Chinese public. |
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5:54am PST |
US standing by for satellite shot |
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Summary: The US may try to shoot down a falling spy satellite as early as Thursday, before it enters Earth's atmosphere. |
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5:48am PST |
Obama surges past Clinton
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary
Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic
presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released
on Wednesday. |
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5:42am PST |
Consumer prices rise again in January
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumer prices rose by a bigger-than-expected amount in January, reflecting big increases in the cost of food and health care, the government reported Wednesday. |
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5:41am PST |
NATO checks Serbs' Kosovo border challenge
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NATO thwarted overnight a bid by
Kosovo Serbs to assert their authority in a northern slice of
the newly independent republic, restoring control on the border
with Serbia where crowds had burnt down two crossing points. |
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5:39am PST |
Bomb found at mail sorting office |
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Summary: A bomb is found by staff at the Royal Mail's sorting office in Mallusk, County Antrim, according to police. |
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5:31am PST |
Rock shareholders plan to sue |
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Summary: Small shareholders in Northern Rock threaten to sue the government over compensation plans. |
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5:26am PST |
Obama scores 10th straight victory
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama added Wisconsin and Hawaii to a primary season winning streak that now totals 10 and has put Hillary Rodham Clinton into a virtual must-win scenario in Democratic contests coming early next month in Texas and Ohio. |
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5:23am PST |
Bush reassures Africa no plans for new U.S. bases
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush reassured Africa
on Wednesday that the United States was not planning to build
new military bases there and played down the risk of rivalry
with China for influence on the continent. |
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Major quake kills 3 in Indonesia |
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Summary: A major earthquake shook western Indonesia Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site. The preliminary magnitude was listed at 7.6.
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Lockerbie case interference claim |
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Summary: The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing claims the UK Government is trying to interfere with his appeal. |
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5:04am PST |
'Fullstop-size cure' for cataract |
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Summary: New technology has significantly reduced the length of the incision needed to remove eye cataracts. |
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5:03am PST |
Atlantis streaks back to Earth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew streaked toward Earth on Wednesday to wrap up a 5 million-mile journey highlighted by the successful delivery of a new space station lab. |
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4:57am PST |
Soldier denies girls kidnap plan |
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Summary: Staff at an internet cafe caught a soldier discussing on chatrooms the kidnapping of young girls, a trial hears. |
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4:55am PST |
Armenia PM wins presidency poll |
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Summary: Armenian Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian wins Armenia's presidential poll, officials say, but his main rival cries foul. |
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Cnn.com |
4:52am PST |
MI6 denies assassination of Princess Diana |
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4:50am PST |
DNA disc failings 'catastrophic' |
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Summary: David Cameron attacks Gordon Brown over the failure to check 4,000 DNA samples for more than a year. |
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4:50am PST |
DNA errors catastrophic - Tories |
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Summary: The failure to carry out DNA checks on 4,000 criminals for more than a year was "catastrophic", David Cameron says. |
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4:50am PST |
Edna's 'bridesmaid' dies at 100 |
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Summary: Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsop, has died aged 100. |
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4:45am PST |
Suffolk jury retires for verdict |
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Summary: The jury in the trial of Steve Wright, who is accused of murdering five women in 2006, retires to consider its verdict. |
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4:45am PST |
Ex-MI6 boss denies killing Diana |
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Summary: MI6's former chief denies that the service murdered Princess Diana at the inquest into her death. |
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4:41am PST |
Obama, McCain extend winning streaks |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama won his ninth and 10th straight contests in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, while Sen. John McCain widened his lead in the GOP contest. Obama topped Sen. Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin and Hawaii. McCain won in Wiscons |
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4:41am PST |
British citizenship tests planned |
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Summary: Immigrants who want to become British citizens will need to pass tests to "prove their worth", under new plans. |
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4:36am PST |
China extends ban on foreign cartoons
(AP)
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Summary: AP - SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are officially persona non grata on Chinese prime time. |
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4:34am PST |
Atlantis shuttle to make re-entry |
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Summary: The Atlantis orbiter is set to return to Earth after installing Europe's Columbus science lab on the space station. |
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4:32am PST |
Football: Grant gets death threats |
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Summary: Anti-Semitic death threats have been sent to the Chelsea manager Avram Grant, the police say. |
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4:32am PST |
Chelsea boss gets death threats |
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Summary: Anti-Semitic death threats have been sent to the Chelsea manager Avram Grant, the police say. |
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4:32am PST |
Abbas cool to unilateral Palestinian independence
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas ruled out on Wednesday any unilateral declaration of
statehood in the near future, responding to an aide's call to
take the step if peace talks with Israel continued to falter. |
