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Brothers admit attacking two boys new

Two young brothers pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent today in relation to a shocking attack on a nine-year-old and an 11-year-old boy.

St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz

Was the Second World War Britain's finest hour?

WWII was a planet-wide catastrophe which the British tend to look back at through Union Jack-tinted spectacles.

I have been abducted by aliens, says Japan's first lady

(Oh, and she also knew Tom Cruise in a previous life)

The proposed job cuts would affect clinical staff as much as administrators

NHS 'should sack 137,000 of its staff'

Report commissioned by ministers spells out steps to meet efficiency targets. Andrew Grice reports.

Three dead babies discovered in Merseyside house

Officers made the grim find in the early hours of Sunday at a house in Merseyside following a tip-off.

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John Prescott will play a key role at the UN meeting in Copenhagen later this year in his new, high-profile role helping to broker global agreements on climate change

Prescott: cutting emissions by 80% will not be enough

Warning by former minister who helped broker Kyoto Protocol.

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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi takes the old goat biscuit for the revelations of these past few weeks

Berlusconi tries to censor film about his influence on Italian media

Silvio Berlusconi is accustomed to allegations about his sex life being excitedly received abroad.

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Dean Richards 'set about ensuring that those who needed to lie to protect his position, did so'

Richards branded 'cheat' to complete his fall from grace

Former Harlequins coach is judged a 'liar' as final details from hearing come to light

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Michael Jackson's flower covered casket at the public memorial service in Los Angeles

Mausoleum for Hollywood royalty awaits its latest guest

When Michael Jackson is buried today, he will join the stars in a resting place fit for the King of Pop

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Forged Mandy Wilkinsons for sale on the website Paintinghere.com, which are produced at studios in the Chinese city of Guangdong

How a little-known Welsh painter became Britain's most forged artist

Chinese copycat studios churn out thousands of Mandy Wilkinsons – alongside Da Vincis and Warhols

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Over the last year there has been a huge increase in

Ethical hacking: Protect yourself online

The threat of cyber attack is greater than ever, as many high-profile targets have discovered. Rob Sharp meets the "ethical hackers" who reveal the gaps in online security and finds out how you can protect your data.

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BP discovers 'giant' oil field deep beneath waters of the Mexican Gulf

Propects from world's deepest-ever oil drilling sends group shares up 4%

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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi takes the old goat biscuit for the revelations of these past few weeks

Berlusconi tries to censor film about his influence on Italian media

Silvio Berlusconi is accustomed to allegations about his sex life being excitedly received abroad.

Environment

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John Prescott will play a key role at the UN meeting in Copenhagen later this year in his new, high-profile role helping to broker global agreements on climate change

Prescott: cutting emissions by 80% will not be enough

Warning by former minister who helped broker Kyoto Protocol.

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Number of children taking anti-obesity drugs rises

There has been a dramatic rise in the number of children on anti-obesity drugs but most stop taking them before they have any benefit, research found today.

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The Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies: ll the features visible are faint structures or left-over 'fossils', from Andromeda's formation

Cosmic cannibalising

Scientists build up a dramatic time-lapse picture of one galaxy swallowing up another in a cannabilistic act that takes place over a period of 3 billion years.

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Glittering prize: BPP, whose business school is based in Holborn has been bought by Apollo Global for �303m

American owner of McDonald's of higher education gets foothold in UK market

This summer a huge, private higher-education company in the US established a foothold in the British market.

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Don Hewitt, centre, with the '60 Minutes' journalists Harry Reasoner, left, and Mike Wallace in 1968

Don Hewitt: Director and producer who created '60 Minutes'

The director and producer Don Hewitt was one of the early titans of American television; he created a news-magazine format which was phenomenally successful and extraordinarily durable.

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