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Updated: 1 hour 35 min ago

Stem cell windpipe op 'success'

1 hour 53 min ago
A 10-year-old British boy has become the first child to undergo a windpipe transplant with an organ crafted from his own stem cells.
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Ex-soap star's dangerous driving

1 hour 56 min ago
Former Coronation Street star Bruce Jones, who played Les Battersby, admits dangerous driving and drink-driving.
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LHC smashes energy record again

2 hours 2 min ago
The Large Hadron Collider has smashed the record for highest-energy particle collisions again in its quest to uncover new physics.
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RMT signal staff vote for strikes

2 hours 4 min ago
Railway signal workers vote in favour of strikes in a row over jobs - as British Airways and unions battle to avert walkouts.
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Birmingham social workers sacked

2 hours 6 min ago
Six social workers are sacked by a local authority criticised for not preventing the abuse of Khyra Ishaq who starved to death.
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Bomb hits Greek far-right group

2 hours 9 min ago
A makeshift bomb damages the fifth floor office of a Greek far-right group in Athens, but causes no injuries.
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No charges over conductor suicide

2 hours 11 min ago
The son of conductor Sir Edward Downes will not be charged with assisting his suicide, the director of public prosecutions says.
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Quartet urges settlement freeze

2 hours 20 min ago
The international Quartet of Mid-East peace mediators urges Israel to freeze settlement activity in occupied territories.
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Day in pictures

2 hours 21 min ago
The most striking images from around the world
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Ethiopia admits jamming VOA radio

2 hours 27 min ago
Ethiopia admits jamming the Voice of America in Amharic, accusing the US radio station of engaging in "destabilising propaganda".
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Arsenal draw favourites Barcelona

2 hours 30 min ago
Arsenal will face Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals while Manchester United draw Bayern Munich.
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Don't mention the cup - South Africa airline in trouble with Fifa

2 hours 41 min ago
South Africa's budget airline pulls its tongue-in-cheek ad after a Fifa complaint that it infringes its trademark during the World Cup.
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Rio Tinto China deal ahead of trial

2 hours 42 min ago
Rio Tinto signs a deal with China to develop a huge iron ore project in Guinea, days before four of its executives go on trial in Shanghai.
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Scarlett Goa death trial begins

2 hours 47 min ago
Two men appear in court accused of killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling, whose body was found in the Indian state of Goa in 2008.
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Lloyds predicts a profitable 2010

2 hours 58 min ago
Lloyds Banking Group says it expects to make a profit this year - having made heavy losses due to bad loans in 2009.
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PM backs Sellafield inspection

3 hours 4 min ago
International inspectors are to be allowed into the Sellafield nuclear plant for the first time, Gordon Brown says.
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Apology over deaths of teenagers

3 hours 5 min ago
Council officials promise to learn lessons from mistakes as they apologise over the unconnected deaths of three 16-year-olds.
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Fulham handed Wolfsburg encounter

3 hours 9 min ago
Fulham will face German champions Wolfsburg in the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
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BA strike talks into second day

3 hours 15 min ago
Talks between British Airways and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action are now in their second day.
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Blair's ghost

3 hours 37 min ago
How realistic is new film about PM facing war crime charges?
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