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Mother guilty over Shannon kidnap
Shannon Matthews's mother and co-accused Michael Donovan are convicted of kidnapping the nine-year-old in a plot to claim a �50,000 reward.
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Bank cuts UK rates to 57-year low
The Bank of England has cut interest rates by one percentage point from 3% to 2%, their lowest level since 1951.
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Smith accused of raid 'ignorance'
Jacqui Smith is attacked for not knowing a Tory MP was to be arrested, as her predecessor says she should have been told.
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Kenya PM calls for Mugabe removal
Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and Africa must unite to oust President Mugabe, says Kenya's prime minister.
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DNA database 'breached rights'
Keeping the DNA of two Britons with no convictions was a breach of their human rights, a European court rules.
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Carmakers 'affect entire US economy'
The chairman of the Senate committee deciding whether to rescue the Detroit Three carmakers says the health of the entire US economy is at stake.
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Menezes family's inquest protest
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have walked out of the inquest into his death at the Oval Cricket Ground in London in protest.
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Nasa delays its next Mars mission
The US space agency (Nasa) has delayed the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory rover mission from 2009 to 2011.
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Canada halts parliament amid row
Canadian PM Stephen Harper secures a suspension of parliament, saving him from defeat in a confidence vote.
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US Congresswoman hangs up on Obama
A US Congresswoman hangs up the phone on President-elect Barack Obama, thinking the call is a hoax.
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Zimbabwe declares cholera emergency
The Zimbabwean government has declared a national emergency in the face of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 560 people, the state-owned newspaper The Herald said Thursday.
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Falluja school bombing buries students
Two suicide bombers on Thursday simultaneously struck the Iraqi city of Falluja, destroying a school and killing at least 15 people -- including some of the students -- an Interior Ministry official said.
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Jewish settlers riot after forced removal
Israeli security forces Thursday started forcibly removing Jewish settlers barricaded inside a contested house in the West Bank city of Hebron, a police spokesman said.
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Serbian police hunting genocide suspect
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Canadian PM says he can suspend Parliament
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that Canada's governor general has allowed him to suspend Parliament.
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Iraq ratifies security agreement
Iraq's presidency council Thursday approved the U.S.-Iraq security agreement -- the final step for the agreement to be ratified by the Iraqi government, a council spokesman said.
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Thai king too sick for birthday speech
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Zimbabwe troops on streets as cash limits ease
Armored cars patrolled the streets of Zimbabwe's capital and residents flocked to banks Thursday after limits on cash withdrawals were lifted in the inflation-ravaged African nation.
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India tightens airport security
Indian authorities stepped up security at the nation's airports on Thursday after receiving intelligence reports that terrorists might be planning an air attack.
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Rice: Pakistan knows it has to act urgently
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived Thursday in Pakistan for talks aimed at easing Indian-Pakistani tensions over last week's massacre in the Indian city of Mumbai.
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Police reveal Shannon kidnap plot was inspired by hunt for Madeleine as Karen Matthews is found guilty
The mother of Shannon Matthews was today found guilty of the kidnap of her own daughter. Karen Matthews was convicted alongside her co-accused Michael Donovan after a trial at Leeds Crown Court. They kept Shannon drugged and leashed to the loft to stop her escaping during her 24-day ordeal in a 'cynical' plot to eventually claim �50,000 reward money for her safe return. Police believe the pair may have been influenced by the coverage of Madeleine McCann's disappearance
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Thousands more to be ripped off as 'Winter Blunderland' closes
The ‘Winter Blunderland’ Christmas theme park that has attracted thousands of complaints has closed, police have confirmed.
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Gypsies who were granted legal aid to fight eviction 'buy �230,000 five-bedroom house - with CASH'
Travellers who have been granted legal aid to fight eviction from their illegal site have bought a �230,000 five-bedroom home in cash, it has been claimed.
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Brown raises prospect of interest rates falling to ZERO after bank cuts them by another 1%
Interest rates were slashed to their lowest level since 1939 today as the Bank of England took more dramatic action to stave off recession.
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Army drafted in to rescue 70 stranded motorists after snow blankets parts of UK
The Army was today drafted in to rescue scores of motorists who became trapped in their cars in heavy snow. In blizzard conditions traffic came to a standstill.
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Scotland Yard: We DID tell Serjeant at Arms we didn't have warrant for raid on Tory MP's office
The rift between police and Parliament deepened tonight as Scotland Yard insisted that its raid on the Commons office of Tory MP Damian Green was carried out in full compliance with the law.
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Chris Moyles apologises for 'unintentional offence' after suggesting Poles make good prostitutes
Chris Moyles has been forced to make a humiliating apology after he appeared to suggest that Poles made good prostitutes on his Radio 1 show.
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Gifted pupil killed himself 'after his school sidelined Christianity for alternative religions'
A gifted teenager killed himself with an overdose of painkillers after his comprehensive school sidelined Christianity in favour of 'alternative religions', an inquest heard today.
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Hampstead academic seeks egg donor to become a mother... but only Oxbridge students will be considered
A university academic desperate to have an 'intellectual' baby has advertised for an egg donor - but only from Oxford or Cambridge.
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Sports college teacher suspended for punishing late pupils by forcing them to do press-ups
A teacher has been suspended after making his pupils do press-ups for being late to class.
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