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Expendables tops UK movie chart
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:48Sylvester Stallone's action movie The Expendables ends Toy Story 3's reign at the top of the UK box office chart in its first week.
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Masked men's robbery knife threat
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:45Police issue descriptions of two masked men who threatened a shop worker with knives before taking money from a till.
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Woman who 'dumped' cat seen by RSPCA
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:36A woman featured in CCTV footage putting a cat in a bin in Coventry, has been identified
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Weir and Hartley back for Scots
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:34Veterans David Weir and Paul Hartley return to the Scotland squad and Blackpool goalkeeper Matt Gilks is called up for the first time.
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Blogger on Ground Zero mosque row
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:31One New Yorker, Daryl Lang, has made his opinions known on his blog, where he has expressed support for the right for the building to go ahead.
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Film festival director steps down
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:27The artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hannah McGill, announces she is standing down.
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Union challenges NHS 'shake-up'
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:26Unison has launched legal action against the government's plans for a major shake-up of the NHS system in England.
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Web scam hits iTunes and Paypal
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:07ITunes accounts linked to Paypal have been targeted in a scam with a number of users complaining that they have been cleaned out.
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Subdued mortgage market continues
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:58The mortgage market continued its summer slide with a fall in the number of new home loans approved by High Street banks.
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Brotherhood starts 'own Facebook'
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:45Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement launches its own Facebook-style social networking site to promote moderate Islamic values, it says.
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Library visitors continue to drop
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:38The number of adults visiting libraries in England has fallen steadily over the last five years, a government report reveals.
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US troops in Iraq 'below 50,000'
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:34The US military says the number of its troops in Iraq is already below the 31 August target of 50,000, when US combat operations are due to end.
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Hong Kong issues Philippine alert
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:26Hong Kong warns against travel to the Philippines and China demands a full investigation after eight tourists were shot and killed in a bus hijack.
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Pakistan floods: 'Desperate for doctors'
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:19Eyewitnesses in three areas affected by the floods in Pakistan describe the plight of survivors.
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Ad firm WPP profits rise to £244m
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:12Half-year pre-tax profits at WPP, the advertising giant whose clients include Virgin Atlantic, rise 36% as markets improve.
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Fulham snap up defender Halliche
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:09Fulham sign Benfica's Algerian international defender Rafik Halliche for an undisclosed fee.
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NI GCSE students score top marks
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:09There has been a small rise in the number of pupils in Northern Ireland scoring the top grades of A* to C in their GCSEs.
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Adams trust sues over print sales
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 04:54The estate of late photographer Ansel Adams sues a man who has apparently been selling prints he claims are Adams's work.
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Microsoft probes Halo game breach
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 04:47Microsoft is investigating how an eagerly anticipated Xbox game appeared on the internet three weeks ahead of its official release.
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