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The UK's top share index chalks up its biggest one-day points fall ever as Chancellor Alistair Darling tries to reassure financial markets.
Ex-Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick is jailed for causing the deaths of two children by dangerous driving.
About 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to an international survey.
The widow of a police chief found dead days after he revealed an extra-marital affair says she has forgiven him.
US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama attacks rival John McCain over his links with a 1980s financial scandal.
The police did nothing wrong in the run-up to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a policewoman tells the inquest into his death.
The discovery of HIV and work linking a virus to cervical cancer jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
The first winner of Mr Gay UK stabbed a man to death before cutting flesh from his thigh and trying to eat it, a court hears.
US coffee-shop chain Starbucks defends itself against claims of a serious waste of water by leaving taps running in its stores all day.
A couple spent three months collecting litter around their home town to earn enough air miles to pay for part for their honeymoon.
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