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Wanted man held after carjacking

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
A 44-year-old described as one of England's most wanted men is arrested after a vehicle with two toddlers inside was carjacked in Birmingham.
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1993 Bosnian beauty queen stood up against war

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- It was not the typical wish of a beauty queen....

1993 Bosnian beauty queen stood up against war

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- It was not the typical wish of a beauty queen....

Drugs robber tortured pensioner

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
A man who broke into a pensioner's home and tortured him in a bid to get drugs has been jailed for nine years.
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Network Rail fined £4m over crash

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Network Rail is fined £4m over the Grayrigg train crash in Cumbria in which one woman died and dozens of others were injured.
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Yahoo to cut 14% of its workforce

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Yahoo cuts 2,000 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan to try to cut costs and keep up with fast-growing rivals.
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Pakistan militant mocks US bounty

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
The founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba describes a $10m (£6.2m) US bounty on his head as "ridiculous and misguided".
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Alec Stewart: Strauss still the man

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
"Strauss still warrants a place in the side and should be England captain for the foreseeable future"
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APNewsBreak: Most Ala. firms miss immigration goal

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
PELHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Alabama businesses have missed a deadline set by the state's strict immigration law to register with a federal database used to verify the citizenship status of job applicants, according to registration numbers....
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Vietnam craves rhino horn; costs more than cocaine

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate....

Man Utd 'champions before derby'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Former Manchester United midfielder Phil Neville expects his old club to win the Premier League before the derby with Manchester City.
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'Time-wasting' Britons criticised

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
William Hague criticises Britons who waste the time of British consular staff with "ludicrous requests" and "bizarre demands" while abroad.
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Thailand bans 'Macbeth' adaptation as too divisive

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's film censors have banned an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it could inflame political passions in the country where it is taboo to criticize the monarchy....

Texas counts cost after tornadoes

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Texas is assessing the damage after as many as a dozen tornadoes barrel through the densely populated Dallas-Fort Worth area, leaving a trail of destruction.
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Trump wishes transgender luck in Canada pageant

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A boy who became a girl got her wish to compete for title of hottest woman on the planet after Donald Trump said she could compete for Canada's spot in the Miss Universe pageant....
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UK schools 'segregated by class'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Schools in the UK are segregated along class lines, creating a "toxic" effect for the poor, a teachers' leaders says.
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Calif. students protest pricey courses, are pepper-sprayed

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Police at a California college pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said.

"Let us in, let us in," protesters shouted on video posted online Tuesday. "No ...

Breivik disputes 'insane' ruling

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Days before his trial, Norway's self-confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik challenges a psychiatric report which finds him insane.
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Swann targeting big England lead

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Graeme Swann calls on England to bat Sri Lanka out of the second Test in Colombo as the tourists close day two on 154-1.
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VIDEO: Lost teeth? Don't ask the Foreign Office

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 08:24
Foreign Secretary William Hague outlines the unusual requests received by the Foreign Office from Britons abroad.
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