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Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:07:55 +0200
Britain's Andy Murray completes a stunning win over world number one Rafael Nadal at the US Open to reach his first Grand Slam final.
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Thousands of people hunker down across the Caribbean as Hurricane Ike pounds the region, on course for Cuba.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:42:56 +0200
President Bush says the US is taking over two mortgage giants because they posed "an unacceptable risk" to the economy.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:54:18 +0200
Israeli police formally recommend to prosecutors that PM Ehud Olmert be indicted in a corruption investigation.
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:40:44 +0200
Flood fears are easing as showers replace persistent rain across England and Wales and river levels stabilise.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:22:17 +0200
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an early election in a bid to strengthen his minority government.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:52:07 +0200
The BBC learns that the MoD is to destroy explosives from its mothballed cluster bombs.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:29:35 +0200
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:50:52 +0200
Civil servants are to be balloted over taking industrial action for at least three months, the PCS union announces.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:33:08 +0200
Britney Spears will join Russell Brand to kick off the MTV Video Music Awards show in Los Angeles later.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:14:49 +0200
McLaren intend to appeal against the penalty that saw Lewis Hamilton demoted from first to third in the Belgian Grand Prix.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:39:01 +0200
England coach Fabio Capello says he vented his fury at Joe Cole and Wayne Rooney for not following instructions against Andorra.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:16:52 +0200
Britain win three gold medals on the cycling track and one in the pool as ParalympicsGB get off to a flying start in Beijing.
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:26:56 +0200
Worst of the floods hit central and northern England
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:15:01 +0200
First medals are won at Paralympics
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:33:33 +0200
An introduction to the world's biggest physics experiment
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:16:25 +0200
Morpeth residents spend night in shelters after rains
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:27:01 +0200
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:11:11 +0200
As Google turns 10, it looks to its next decade
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A man is killed in an accident involving a bus, a tram and a car in a street in Croydon on Sunday, police say.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:55:18 +0200
Britain's Andy Murray beats world number one Rafael Nadal to reach the final of the US Open.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:29:47 +0200
Some schools and transport face disruption as a minister praises the efforts in dealing with the weekend floods.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:42:35 +0200
Detectives investigating the murder of a 14-week-old baby boy are questioning the child's father.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:54:04 +0200
Angola's ruling MPLA party is heading for a landslide win in parliamentary polls, preliminary results show.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:11:25 +0200
US presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain say they will appear together on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:52:02 +0200
Rescuers in Cairo continue their search for survivors after a rockslide hit dozens of homes in Egypt's capital, killing at least 31.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:08:24 +0200
Voters in Hong Kong choose between pro-government and more pro-democracy candidates in a hotly contested poll.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:17:33 +0200
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) choose Frank-Walter Steinmeier to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's federal election.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:00:37 +0200
Two suicide bomb blasts kill at least two people and injure 29 in a police station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:41:44 +0200
People earning more than £100,000 a year should pay higher tax rates, the Trades Union Congress says.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:59:57 +0200
Conservative party leader David Cameron calls on Labour to support or reject Gordon Brown as leader.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:07:41 +0200
A third of patients have unnecessary tubes inserted into veins when they are in hospital, pharmacists have warned.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:52:40 +0200
The Sats tests could end next year and be replaced by individual level tests, Schools Secretary Ed Balls has hinted.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:49:48 +0200
China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, state-run news agency Xinhua reports.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:33:57 +0200
Actress Anita Page, who starred alongside Buster Keaton and Joan Crawford, dies aged 98 in Los Angeles.
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:23:44 +0200
Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.