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FIRST WOMAN CHAIR NEWS
England wing Mark Cueto is available for the second Test against Australia after being cleared of a dangerous tackle on Berrick Barnes in the first Test defeat in Perth.
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It doesn't take long for Sir Dick Evans to win his first round of applause from the businessmen at the Intercontinental hotel in Almaty, Kazakhstan's financial capital.
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Three men and a woman suffer bullet wounds in a shooting at an urban music event in Birmingham city centre.
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Sharing a green room with Matthew Hoggard is one sign of having made it, performing in front of seven million television viewers another altogether. When Daniel Keatings became the first Briton to win an all-round medal in a world championships last year it changed his life. Doing the same in London in 2012 would take it to a whole new level.
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South Korea Monday vowed a stern response to North Korea's alleged sinking of a warship despite new threats from the North, as the two sides prepared to make their case to the United Nations.President Lee Myung-Bak, in his first public speech since his party's defeat in June 2 local elections, said his government could make political concessions to rebuild its standing but none on security.
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An MP who was stabbed while holding a public surgery speaks about the incident for the first time.
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Germany was the clear winner Sunday night, handing Australia a crushing 4-0 defeat in their opening Group D match.
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Africa tasted victory for the first time at the World Cup but fresh tragedy punctured the euphoria as a young US fan fell to his death, while journalists were involved in an air crash scare.New controversy also raged over the vuvuzela trumpets with Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo saying they were putting players off and the head of the local organising committee that a ban was a possibility.
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A team of eager scientists flew into the Australian Outback on Monday to recover a Japanese space capsule they hope contains the first-ever asteroid samples that could provide clues into the evolution of the solar system.
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A cancer surgeon has told the Perth Coroner's Court a woman would have had a good chance of survival if she had agreed to have conventional medical treatment.
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Japanese marine researchers said on Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.The creature was found on October 6 at a depth of 161 metres (528 feet) in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, where the Indonesian coelacanth was first discovered, according to the researchers.Video footage showed the 31.5 centimetre (12.6-inch) coelacanth, coloured blue with white spots, swimming slowly among rocks on the seabed for about 20 minutes.
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Africa tasted victory for the first time at the World Cup but fresh tragedy punctured the euphoria as a young US fan fell to his death, while journalists were involved in a air crash scare.New controversy also raged over the vuvuzela trumpets with Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo saying they were putting players off and the head of the local organising committee that a ban was a possibility.
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A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was being recovered Monday from the Australian Outback, officials said.The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth.The heat-resistant capsule parachuted into the Woomera military zone after being ejected from Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft as it flamed back into the planet's atmosphere late Sunday.
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The funeral for David Bird, the twin brother and first victim of gunman Derrick Bird, will take place in Cumbria today.
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When is comes to his clothes, the actor Bill Nighy knows what he likes, so it was fun to dress him up in some first-class tailoring.
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Exactly 70 years ago, on June 14, 1940, the first rail convoy with prisoners arrived in Auschwitz.
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While all the chatter in the Usk Valley here this week concerns the Ryder Cup, Chris Wood has more mundane matters on his mind. Let the rest worry about a match taking place in four months' time. To young Chris from Bristol it's all about the here and now and a chance to win "just another sort of normal European Tour event".
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Are women happy being known as geeks?
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Tens of thousands of people of all nationalities and races packed in to Johannesburg's Innesfree Park to watch history being made as the home team kicked off the first ever African World Cup.
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Lord Mandelson, the former first secretary of state, is said to be a pal of Ben Duncan, the 'posh'" Big Brother housemate.
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