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Six million facing new tax bills [view] HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.	4 Sep, 2010 18:40
Pakistan rocked by fresh claims [view] A fourth Pakistan cricketer is being investigated by cricket's governing body, claims the News of the World.	4 Sep, 2010 21:44
Aftershocks felt after NZ quake [view] A series of aftershocks rattle Christchurch, New Zealand, where a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake caused widespread damage.	5 Sep, 2010 00:54
Ex-army head attacks Labour PMs [view] Former head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.	5 Sep, 2010 00:16
Cell assault sergeant facing sack [view] A police officer who was caught on CCTV injuring a woman by throwing her into a cell faces being dismissed.	5 Sep, 2010 00:52
Burnt body found on golf course [view] A badly-burnt body is found in undergrowth between the 17th and 18th holes of an East Sussex golf course.	4 Sep, 2010 17:57
Briton killed in NZ crash named [view] The Foreign Office confirms that 24-year-old Briton Brad Coker was among nine killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand.	4 Sep, 2010 22:55
Crash survivors back Chile miners [view] Survivors of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes arrive at the San Jose mine to support the 33 men trapped underground.	4 Sep, 2010 23:58
Two killed as aeroplanes collide [view] Two people are killed when their plane crashes to the ground after a collision with another aircraft on the Isle of Wight.	4 Sep, 2010 21:02
Balls seeks phone hack statement [view] Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls says the home secretary should make a statement about claims of phone tapping by the News of the World.	4 Sep, 2010 17:46
Protests over French Roma policy [view] Thousands attend rallies in Paris and other French cities to protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people.	4 Sep, 2010 20:50
Spud U Like? Gardener chipper over his super-spud [view] An amateur gardener grows what he believes to be the largest potato in the world.	4 Sep, 2010 14:12
Saxon boat and strange cargo found in Norfolk river [view] A Saxon boat is uncovered during flood defence work on the River Ant in Norfolk.	4 Sep, 2010 10:51
Live text - US Open day six [view] Mardy Fish and Arnaud Clement are into a fifth set, while Novak Djokovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova feature in the night session on day six of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.	4 Sep, 2010 15:57
Dawson facing spell on sidelines [view] England and Tottenham defender Michael Dawson will miss the game with Switzerland after being ruled out for at least six weeks.	4 Sep, 2010 16:35
Hargreaves fails to make Euro cut [view] Injury-hit midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been left out of Manchester United's Champions League squad.	4 Sep, 2010 23:43
Keane fitness boost for Republic [view] Republic of Ireland skipper Robbie Keane will be fit for Tuesday night's Euro 2012 qualifier against Andorra.	4 Sep, 2010 15:12
Scotland need home wins - Brown [view] Scott Brown believes victories at home are paramount after Scotland open their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with a goalless draw in Lithuania.	4 Sep, 2010 14:03
Funeral for festival death star [view] The funeral is held of singer Charles Haddon from Northamptonshire who died in a fall in Belgium.	4 Sep, 2010 15:55
Police chief raps Moat coverage [view] Chief Constable Peter Fahy says it was "not right" that TV broadcasters covered the last hours of gunman Raoul Moat on a live rolling basis.	4 Sep, 2010 15:40
Rider airlifted at horse trials [view] Scottish event rider Nicola Malcolm is airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse during the Burghley Horse Trials.	4 Sep, 2010 18:25
Scotland faces £3.7bn budget cuts [view] Scotland faces nearly £4bn of cuts over the next four years, Finance Secretary John Swinney is warning.	5 Sep, 2010 00:47
Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin [view] Eggs and shoes are thrown at the former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he attends a book signing in Dublin.	4 Sep, 2010 18:34
Name released after city death [view] Police release the name of a man who was found dead at his apartment in Armagh city on Friday.	4 Sep, 2010 18:52
More cuts in councillors proposed [view] More plans to reduce the number of councillors in Wales are put forward to create what ministers say would be greater fairness for voters.	4 Sep, 2010 18:45
Village £550,000 broadband quote [view] Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000.	4 Sep, 2010 10:20
Mozambique police fire at rioters [view] Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio.	3 Sep, 2010 19:23
UN calls special food price talks [view] The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices.	3 Sep, 2010 17:40
South Korea FM offers to resign [view] The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yu Myung-hwan, offers to resign after it was revealed that his daughter was offered a job in his ministry.	4 Sep, 2010 11:37
Nine die in New Zealand air crash [view] Nine people, including four foreigners, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports.	4 Sep, 2010 08:05
Belarus web activist found hanged [view] A Belarus opposition website activist found hanged at his home outside Minsk committed suicide, officials say.	4 Sep, 2010 18:13
Argentina reopens Franco probe [view] An Argentine court reopens an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity under General Franco in Spain.	4 Sep, 2010 20:06
Castro addresses rally in Havana [view] Fidel Castro addresses a rally for the first time since handing the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul in 2006.	3 Sep, 2010 23:04
Colombian troops storm rebel camp [view] Colombian troops storm an ELN guerrilla camp near the Venezuelan border, killing 11 rebels, a day after 14 policemen were killed in an ambush in the south.	3 Sep, 2010 20:46
ElBaradei alleges 'smear' tactic [view] Former UN chief nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Egypt's government of being behind a campaign to smear his family.	4 Sep, 2010 23:04
Blair in 'radical Islam' warning [view] Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.	4 Sep, 2010 00:41
Karzai sets up Taliban talks body [view] Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office says.	4 Sep, 2010 16:27
Long lines at troubled Kabul Bank [view] Afghans have continued to withdraw money from the country's largest bank, Kabul Bank, over fears it may collapse.	4 Sep, 2010 22:47
Tropical storm Earl hits Canada [view] Tropical Storm Earl reaches Nova Scotia, on the eastern Canadian coast, with hundreds of thousands of people experiencing power cuts.	5 Sep, 2010 01:02
Craigslist ends adult service ads [view] Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups.	4 Sep, 2010 22:13
HSBC threatens to quit London HQ [view] HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.	3 Sep, 2010 18:19
Petrobras files $65bn share offer [view] The Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, unveils plans to sell up to $64.5bn of new stock, in one of the world's largest share offers.	3 Sep, 2010 21:12
BP says oil spill cost up to $8bn [view] BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.	3 Sep, 2010 15:28
Tory defects over schools scheme [view] A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".	4 Sep, 2010 12:56
Poll 'backs move from New Labour' [view] A poll commissioned by Ed Miliband's leadership campaign finds voters are less likely to vote Labour if there is not a shift from New Labour policies.	4 Sep, 2010 02:44
Lib Dem veteran Cyril Smith dies [view] The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his family and party confirm.	3 Sep, 2010 17:02
Reading Arabic 'hard for brain' [view] Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.	4 Sep, 2010 00:56
'No evidence' implants are toxic [view] Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.	3 Sep, 2010 12:36
Compost sparks Legionnaire's fear [view] Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.	3 Sep, 2010 00:03
Men in short supply in primaries [view] One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.	3 Sep, 2010 13:52
Music tuition falling, poll says [view] Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.	4 Sep, 2010 01:39
School lottery 'failed in aim' [view] England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.	3 Sep, 2010 00:49
PS3 hack escapes court challenge [view] Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.	3 Sep, 2010 11:43
Memristor revolution backed by HP [view] A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.	2 Sep, 2010 16:33
Global broadband divide revealed [view] The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures.	2 Sep, 2010 13:45
Plans for solar 'close encounter' [view] Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.	3 Sep, 2010 17:44
Wolves fail to halt aspen decline [view] The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.	3 Sep, 2010 16:20
Method to trace persistent CFCs [view] Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.	3 Sep, 2010 01:49
DJs unite for Love Parade track [view] Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July.	3 Sep, 2010 17:47
Sarah Kennedy leaves BBC Radio 2 [view] Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station	3 Sep, 2010 14:35
Robbie turns on Blackpool lights [view] Thousands of people watch Robbie Williams switch on Blackpool's illuminations.	3 Sep, 2010 21:44
Eddie who? [view] Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention?	4 Sep, 2010 02:10
Don't let the bed bugs bite [view] The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat?	3 Sep, 2010 00:42
Autobiographies of the rich and famous [view] Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers?	3 Sep, 2010 12:12
Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin [view] Eggs and shoes have been thrown by anti-war protestors at former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin.	4 Sep, 2010 11:39
Imran Khan on corruption in cricket [view] The former Pakistan cricket captain, Imran Khan, has said that if players are found guilty of spot fixing, they should not be given a life ban, which some officials are demanding.	4 Sep, 2010 05:01
Making music from children's old toys [view] The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments.	4 Sep, 2010 07:30
‘We were woken by the earthquake’ [view] A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts.	3 Sep, 2010 22:02
What does the future hold for television? [view] Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.	3 Sep, 2010 14:19
Panda twins delight Japanese zoo [view] New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.	3 Sep, 2010 16:47
Canine Cinema gets audience howling [view] In an attempt to reach people who do not normally go to the cinema, Shetland film festival is targeting their pets.	3 Sep, 2010 22:13
Sharks swarm off Australian coast [view] Hundreds of sharks have been spotted off the Queensland coast.	3 Sep, 2010 09:07
Remember when... [view] How much can you trust the human memory?	3 Sep, 2010 16:16
Medieval munchies [view] How an ancient diet could aid healthy eating	5 Sep, 2010 00:13
Week in pictures [view] Striking pictures from around the world this week	3 Sep, 2010 17:55
'Death squad' [view] The merciless drugs gang spreading fear in Mexico	4 Sep, 2010 15:55
Reporter's dilemma [view] Should a journalist bear witness, or interfere to help save a life?	4 Sep, 2010 11:46
Five Minutes [view] Author Ian McEwan on writing, walking and quantum mechanics	4 Sep, 2010 07:25