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• Koran bonfire on hold as heat begins to tell << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:22:34 +0100 >>
  Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who is the focus of global outrage, says he is "really, really seriously considering not burning the Korans".

• France 'carrying out racial holocaust' claims Castro << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:55:06 +0100 >>
  Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader, has accused France of carrying out a "racial holocaust" over its expulsion of Roma migrants back to their homes in eastern Europe.

• Big Brother: Brian Dowling wins final series << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:28:48 +0100 >>
  Former air steward Brian Dowling wins Ultimate Big Brother.

• Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum expecting a baby << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:26:07 +0100 >>
  Model and TV presenter expecting a baby with her musician husband.

• French claim to 'greatest lovers' dealt blow << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:28:57 +0100 >>
  France's claim to being the world's greatest lovers has been dealt a blow by a new study that finds three-quarters of couples have bad sex lives.

• Playboy model detained 'after trying to open plane door mid-flight' << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:28:48 +0100 >>
  A Playboy model was detained after claims she tried to open a plane door mid flight after she suffered an anxiety attack.

• Defence spending: thousands of troops to be cut << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:01:08 +0100 >>
  Soldiers, sailors and airmen face axe as ministers conclude cutting uniformed personnel is best way to save money.

• Justice minister's legal threat to gag his agent over expenses claims << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:17:53 +0100 >>
  Jonathan Djanogly threatened legal action to stop his election agent speaking out over his Parliamentary expenses claims.

• David Miliband: back Ed and we'll lose << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:51:05 +0100 >>
  David Miliband has warned that Labour faces three terms out of office if it selects the wrong leader to replace Gordon Brown.

• Coroner criticises EU working time directive after hearing of doctor shortage << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:45:20 +0100 >>
  A coroner has voiced concern about the impact of EU limits on working hours in hospitals after hearing that an elderly patient waited five hours to be seen by doctor but was dead by the time one arrived at his bedside.

• Stephen Hawking 'mistaken for a Simpsons character' << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:03:22 +0100 >>
  Stephen Hawking, the eminent physicist and cosmologist whose books include the seminal A Brief History of Time, has joked that he is often mistaken for a Simpsons character.

• Terror chief tells of 9/11 West Wing terror on ninth anniversary << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:40:51 +0100 >>
  The terrorism chief who running the White House situation room tells how his staff were told as many as 11 hijacked aircraft could be heading for the West Wing.

• Boy reunited with family 4 months after ball hunt carried him away << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:54:47 +0100 >>
  A missing seven-year-old boy has been reunited with his family four months after he accidentally kicked his football inside a freight carriage and then got trapped on the moving train as he tried to get it back.

• 9/11 anniversary: US authorities slow to act over homegrown terrorists << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:42:35 +0100 >>
  American authorities were slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown terrorists and are "stumbling blindly" in trying to address the problem, according to a new report.

• The Karzai empire, villas in Dubai and fears over Afghan aid << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:06:15 +0100 >>
  The family of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has been linked to more than a dozen expensive homes in the Gulf, raising fears that Western aid money sent to Afghanistan is being misused.

• Tumultuous 9/11 anniversary sparks death in Afghanistan and protests in New York << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:56:30 +0100 >>
  The ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks has become the most tumultuous to date with a man shot dead in Afghanistan and protests due in New York over the Ground Zero mosque.

• Big Brother: Davina McCall fights tears as she says goodbye << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:54:42 +0100 >>
  Davina McCall fights to control her emotions on the last ever programme.

• 9/11 Koran burning: Pastor Terry Jones gives imam two-hour deadline << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:00:58 +0100 >>
  Florida pastor gives a New York imam a deadline - without saying what the consequences will be - to agree to hold talks on moving a planned mosque close to ground zero.

• Obama shakes up top team as economy falters << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:52:57 +0100 >>
  President Obama has shaken up his economic team and defended a new blitz of measures designed to shore up America's recovery.

• Married dentist jailed for sexual assault 'after misreading signals' << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:34:52 +0100 >>
  A married dentist has been jailed for sexual assault after he fondled a woman whose flirtatious banter he had misread as an invitation for sex.

• Medal of Honor to be awarded to living service member for first time since Vietnam << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:08:28 +0100 >>
  The Medal of Honor, the highest US military award for valour, is to be presented to a living service member for the first time since the Vietnam War.

• Wayne Rooney and Coleen speak of 'pain' caused by prostitute claims << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:03:43 +0100 >>
  Wayne and Coleen Rooney ask for privacy in wake of prostitute claims.

• Government plans to sell all its shares in Royal Mail in £4billion privatisation << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:56:12 +0100 >>
  The Government will stage a full-scale £4billion privatisation of Royal Mail, it has emerged.

• Allotment holders banned from donating vegetables to hospice << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:50:07 +0100 >>
  Allotment holders have been banned from donating home-grown vegetables and jam to local hospice - because the gifts breach health and safety rules

• Ranting Republican's speech becomes YouTube hit << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:36:51 +0100 >>
  Phil Davison wanted to be Ohio's Republican nomination for Stark County treasurer. He didn't get the job.

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