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1. Tributes to 'outstanding' airman
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A UK serviceman killed in a blast in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named as airman Luke Southgate.

2. Court lifts ban on MI5 criticism
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Some MI5 officers are accused of having a "dubious record" in the mistreatment of former detainee Binyam Mohamed.

3. Fresh detentions in Turkey 'plot'
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Turkish authorities detain 18 more suspects over an alleged plot to create chaos and provoke a military coup, local media say.

4. Thai court seizes Thaksin's cash
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Thailand's top court strips ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra's family of $1.4bn in assets, more than half of $2.3bn claimed by prosecutors.

5. Slimming sixties not a myth
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Despite fewer visits to gyms and a love of high fat foods, people in the 1960s were slimmer simply because they were more active, figures show.

6. Iran Sunni rebel says U.S. offered him military aid: report (Reuters)
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Reuters - The leader of a Sunni Muslim rebel group has "confessed" that the United States promised to provide him with financial and military aid if he agreed to work with them, Iranian state television ...

7. Brisk 5.9 percent growth in Q4 will likely fade (AP)
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AP - The economy rocketed ahead at a 5.9 percent pace in the final quarter of 2009, stronger than initially estimated. But the growth spurt isn't expected to carry over into this year.

8. Afghan blast death airman named
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A UK serviceman killed in a blast in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named as airman Luke Southgate.

9. US economy in upward revision
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Official figures show the US economy grew at an annualised rate of 5.9% in the last three months of 2009.

10. Haiti aid effort marred by slow U.N. response (Reuters)
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Reuters - Clutching automatic assault rifles, truckloads of U.N. troops patrolled the streets of Haiti's shattered capital on the day after the earthquake hit last month, seemingly oblivious to the misery ...

11. Obama aides push back on venue for terrorism trials (Reuters)
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Reuters - The Obama administration bluntly urged the Congress on Thursday to steer clear of directing where terrorism suspects should be prosecuted, pushing back against efforts to require military rather ...

12. Pair jailed after £4.5m tax fraud
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A Dungannon couple are jailed over the biggest ever case of tax fraud in Northern Ireland, amounting to more than £4.5m.

13. Irak przywraca do służby 20 tys. oficerów Saddama
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Iracka armia przywróci do służby 20 tys. oficerów z czasów Saddama Husajna, których zwolniono po amerykańskiej inwazji z 2003 r. - podał rzecznik ministerstwa obrony. Zastrzegł, że nie ma to związku z ...

14. Z Bieszczadów na Marsa
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Nauka otwiera furtkę dla innego spojrzenia na świat - przekonuje dr Błażej Błażejowski z Instytutu Paleobiologii PAN, którego pasją stała się popularyzacja paleontologii w wiejskich szkołach i w Pogotowiu ...

15. Z Bieszczadów na Marsa
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Nauka otwiera furtkę dla innego spojrzenia na świat - przekonuje dr Błażej Błażejowski z Instytutu Paleobiologii PAN, którego pasją stała się popularyzacja paleontologii w wiejskich szkołach i w Pogotowiu ...

16. Suicide attack on Afghan capital
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Explosions and gunfire in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, leave at least 17 people dead, officials say.

17. Huge Eastern storm darkens homes, disrupts travel (AP)
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AP - An unceasing winter storm unleashed multiple dangers across the Northeast on Friday, blasting the coast with hurricane-force winds that fanned a hotel fire, flooding parts of Maine, dropping 2 feet ...

18. Woman jailed for sex with boy, 12
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A woman aged 36 is jailed for nine years after admitting having sex with a 12-year-old boy nearly 200 times.

19. VA to reopen Gulf War vets' files (AP)
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AP - The Veterans Affairs Department says it will take a second look at the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from illnesses they blame on their war service, the ...

20. 'Darkest hour'
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Pompey fans give their verdict on their club's crisis

21. Taliban attacks in central Kabul kill 16 (Reuters)
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Reuters - Taliban fighters opened fire, hurled grenades and staged suicide bombings in central Kabul on Friday, killing at least 16 people in defiance of the Western-backed government and a NATO offen

22. Death row Briton in video appeal
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A British grandmother on death row in Texas is lodging a last-ditch appeal with the US Supreme Court.

23. Snow leaves homes without power
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Severe weather continues to disrupt Scotland and thousands of householders are left without power.

24. Biden to unveil new rules on retirement savings (Reuters)
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Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will unveil on Friday rules to help protect workers' retirement savings accounts as he delivers an annual report of his middle-class task force, a White House official ...

25. Foreigners among 16 dead in Taliban attacks on Kabul (AFP)
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AFP - Taliban suicide bombers targeted guesthouses in downtown Kabul on Friday, killing 16 people including Westerners and Indians in one of the deadliest attacks on foreigners in the Afghan capital.

26. Death charge hospital is guilty
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A hospital where a disabled man died after getting his head trapped between bars admits health and safety breaches.

27. Deadly crush at Timbuktu mosque
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Twenty-six people are killed in a crush at the famous Djinguereber mosque in Timbuktu, sources tell the BBC.

28. Bottom line on health care summit: Dems push ahead (AP)
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AP - President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with ...

29. Canada beats US 2-0 for gold in women's hockey (AP)
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AP - Gold was the only option for both Canada's women's hockey team and South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na. For the U.S. Nordic combined squad, any medal in any color would do.

30. Dubai cameras shine light on killers' dark arts (Reuters)
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Reuters - Suspected Israeli assassins have inadvertently given the world an unusual master class in clandestine killing in broadcast surveillance video of them going about their murderous trade.