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25 foods readers would like to revive

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
25 forgotten foods you would revive
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VIDEO: Susan Boyle's life as a musical

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Elaine C Smith will portray Susan Boyle in a stage musical based on the Britain's Got Talent contestant's life story.
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PRUDEN: A modest proposal for Barack Obama

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Barack Obama is in trouble. Even The Washington Post says so.

The Post's pollsters find that a record number of Americans now give the president "strongly negative" reviews of his first three years, and nearly 7 of every 10 Americans blame the president for the acute heartburn that strikes ...

John Carter top of UK box office

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Disney's sci-fi film John Carter debuts at number one on the UK box office chart, despite lukewarm reviews.
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Women directors 'at record high'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
The percentage of women on the boards of the UK's 100 largest-listed firms has risen to a record 15.6%, a report says.
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Panetta seeks to boost support for Kyrgyzstan base

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is meeting with Kyrgyzstan's leaders to stress that America needs the continued use of the U.S. air base there beyond the end of its contract in 2014, largely as a transit center to bring troops home from Afghanistan....
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Brooks arrested in hacking probe

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Former News International chief Rebekah Brooks and five others are released on bail after being arrested in connection with phone-hacking allegations.
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Soldier held over partner murder

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
A serving soldier is being questioned on suspicion of murdering his 24-year-old girlfriend in Greater Manchester.
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Obama, Cameron to focus on foreign threats

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
LONDON (AP) -- Efforts to end the international mission in Afghanistan, curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions and halt the bloody repression of Syria's opposition will dominate talks opening Tuesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron....

Land of the setting sun

The gravest problem facing the land of Japan is that it is dying.

UK's John Major: Murdoch tried to change policy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence his government's dealings with the European Union, even hinting that the politician could lose the support of the media mogul's newspapers if he didn't change direction....

Afghans attacked at massacre site

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Militants in Afghanistan launch an attack on a top government delegation visiting the site where a US soldier killed 16 civilians.
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£100m support for life sciences

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Plans are expected to be unveiled later to provide around £100m support for the medical technology and pharmaceutical industry in Wales.
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Nightmare zoo in Indonesia shaken by giraffe death

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) -- The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbor. Last week, a giraffe died with a beachball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in its belly....

Syria 'laying border landmines'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Human Rights Watch says Syria has laid hundreds of landmines on its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees.
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AP source: US brings new trade case against China

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is bringing a new trade case against China that seeks to pressure the rising economic power to end its export restrictions on key materials used to manufacture hybrid car batteries, flat-screen televisions and other high-tech goods....
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30 dead, dozens missing in Bangladesh ferry crash

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 30 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said....

The big hoax

The biggest hoax of the past two generations is still going strong...

Fog causing disruption at airport

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Thick fog is causing disruption to flights in and out of Cardiff Airport while there are reports of hazardous driving conditions on the M4.
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Le Pen to run in French election

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-10 21:01
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she now has enough support to run for the presidency as Nicolas Sarkozy edges ahead in the polls.
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