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Your news, your perspective

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Song sites face legal crackdown

• People offering unlicensed music tabs and lyrics
  on the web should be jailed, a music industry
  body says.

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Sony BMG repents over CD debacle

• Sony BMG says it is rethinking its anti-piracy
  policy following criticism over its use of copy
  protection CD software.

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Project opens up quake 'machine'

• Scientists report promising results from the
  project to drill 3km down into the famous San
  Andreas Fault.

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Call for clarity on school tables

• A head teachers' leader calls on the government
  to clarify its secondary school targets for
  England.

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Dummies 'reduce cot death risk'

• Giving a baby a dummy when they sleep may reduce
  the risk of a cot death by 90, US research
  suggests.

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Cameron vows 'tough' green action

• The Conservative leader sets up a policy group to
  pave the way for hard choices on the environment.

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LSE rejects 'derisory' takeover

• The London Stock Exchange rejects a proposed
  Australian takeover bid, which it says
  undervalues the firm.

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Inquest told of fatal Iraq ambush

• A security guard and ex-SAS soldier was shot in
  the head while working as a security guard in
  Iraq, a coroner hears.

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Blaze care home owners in court

• The owners of a home where 14 elderly people died
  in a fire last year face health and safety
  charges.

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'Spy' trio held 'to save Trimble'

• A man cleared of charges over an alleged IRA spy
  ring says he was arrested in a campaign to save
  David Trimble.

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Vomiting bug hits over 250 pupils

• A fifth of pupils and 20 teachers at a school
  are confirmed to have been struck down by the
  highly contagious Norwalk virus.

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Sri Lanka troops 'ready to fight'

• Sri Lanka's military is ready for battle with
  Tamil rebels but does not expect immediate war, a
  top official says.

14
World 'losing patience with Iran'

• The world is losing patience with Iran over its
  nuclear programme, says IAEA head Mohamed
  ElBaradei.

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Fast handover for Croatia suspect

• War crimes suspect Ante Gotovina will be sent to
  the UN tribunal in The Hague as soon as possible,
  Spain says.

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Chavez to sit at Mercosur table

• The presidents of the South American trading bloc
  Mercosur start the process of including Venezuela
  as a member.

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Cambodia school siege gang jailed

• A Cambodian gang who took 28 children hostage in
  a deadly school siege receive long jail
  sentences.

18
Nigeria arrests runaway governor

• Nigeria's Bayelsa state governor, charged with
  money laundering in the UK, is impeached and
  arrested.

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Football Gazza row resolved

• A photographer who alleged he was hit by Paul
  Gascoigne is withdrawing his complaint.

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Chimp shot after zoo escape

• Zoo staff shoot and kill a female chimpanzee on
  the loose.

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British Gas strike 'to go ahead'

• British Gas engineers are likely to stage a
  24-hour strike on Monday after talks broke down.

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BAA outlines Stansted plans

• Airports group BAA says a second runway and new
  facilities at Stansted airport will cost Â2.7bn
  to construct.

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Blair sets EU budget bottom line

• Tony Blair says he cannot sign up to a deal on
  the new EU budget unless there is a full review
  of EU farm subsidies.

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Hamas to end truce with Israel

• Hamas's political leader says it will not renew
  its informal ceasefire with Israel that expires
  at the end of year.

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Muslim group makes Kember plea

• The head of the world's oldest Islamic movement
  has called for the release of Briton Norman
  Kember.

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UN poised for new climate talks

• UN delegates reportedly agree to hold new talks
  to cut greenhouse gases but it is not clear if
  the US is involved.

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Stars gather for World Cup draw

• The 32 participants are poised to find out who
  they will face at the 2006 World Cup finals.

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Johnson given Tory frontbench job

• Boris Johnson resigns as editor of the Spectator
  magazine to become Tory shadow higher education
  minister.

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Tube shooting charges 'possible'

• Police officers involved in the shooting of a
  Brazilian man at Stockwell tube station could
  face criminal charges.