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| The latest stories from the Home section of the BBC News web site. |
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| Senior Labour politicians urge fresh inquiries into phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper. |
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| Police question the three Pakistan players accused of corruption, while the ICC says that trio implicated have a disciplinary case to answer. |
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| The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his family and party confirm. |
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| A bomb kills at least 50 people at a Shia Muslim rally in the south-western city of Quetta, the second attack on Pakistan's religious minority in days. |
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| The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices. |
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| Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is remanded on bail at the Old Bailey at his first court appearance on fraud and theft charges. |
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| A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts. |
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| Director general denies he compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts. |
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| A Hare Krishna temple in Leicester was evacuated seconds before an explosion almost destroyed the building, it emerges. |
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| Six Portuguese men are sentenced to up to 18 years in jail after being found guilty of multiple charges of sexual abuse at a state-run children's home. |
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| Twelve football hooligans who took part in what a judge said was the worst destruction Manchester has suffered "since the Blitz" are sentenced. |
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| Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not face charges. |
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| Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha show off their baby daughter, Florence, for the first time on the steps of Number 10. |
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| Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station |
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| Jermain Defoe scores a hat-trick as England get their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign off to a winning start against Bulgaria at Wembley. |
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| Britain's Andy Murray overcomes the unorthodox style of Jamaica's Dustin Brown to reach the third round of the US Open. |
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| Montenegro captain Mirko Vucinic scores a fine solo goal to condemn Wales to defeat in their opening Euro 2012 qualifier. |
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| Substitute Corry Evans scores with his first touch to give Northern Ireland a 1-0 win over Slovenia in the opening Euro 2012 qualifier in Maribor. |
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| Scotland have to settle for a point as their Euro 2012 qualification campaign begins with frustration in Lithuania. |
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| Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver. |
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| A 74-year-old Northamptonshire churchwarden dies when she is knocked to the ground as she herds cattle. |
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| Police carry out two days of raids after a man was attacked with a power drill in North Lanarkshire. |
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| Edinburgh's transport leader admits speeding but said he still believes a 20mph zone would be a good idea. |
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| Detectives in Armagh have begun a murder inquiry after a man's body was found in the Castle Street area on Friday. |
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| Several "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast, police say. |
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| Metropolitan Police Authority member backs Welsh MP Chris Bryant on call for more information over tabloid newspaper's phone hacking claims. |
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| A teenager pleads not guilty to murdering her 61-year-old father along with three other people. |
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| Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio. |
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| South Africa strongly criticises Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana. |
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| Japan imposes new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme but maintains its oil import schedule. |
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| The first visit of Chinese warships to Burma ends as top Burmese leader Than Shwe prepares to visit Beijing, highlighting the two country's close ties. |
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| Dublin delays a deal to allow transfers of EU citizens' data to Israel, which is accused of forging passports. |
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| Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation. |
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| Colombian troops storm an ELN guerrilla camp near the Venezuelan border, killing 11 rebels, a day after 14 policemen were killed in an ambush in the south. |
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| Twenty-seven suspected drug gang members are killed in a clash with troops near the US border, Mexico's army says, hours after the country's president vows to continue the fight against drug cartels. |
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| A UPS cargo plane crashes at an air force base shortly after take-off from Dubai airport, killing two crew members on board. |
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| The US secretary of state warns the current round of Mid-East peace talks may be "the last chance for a very long time". |
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| Officials in northern Bangladesh battle to contain an anthrax outbreak that has infected more than 250 people. |
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| A key witness at the commission set up to examine the last years of Sri Lanka's civil war complains his words were not properly translated. |
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| The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show. |
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| BP removes the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs. |
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| HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says. |
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| The Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, unveils plans to sell up to $64.5bn of new stock, in one of the world's largest share offers. |
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| BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone. |
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| Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year. |
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| England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say. |
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| The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion. |
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| Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say. |
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| Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost. |
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| British scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women trying to fall pregnant are more likely to produce abnormal eggs. |
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| One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show. |
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| A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries. |
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| School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests. |
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| Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web. |
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| A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. |
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| The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures. |
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| Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere. |
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| The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped. |
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| Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. |
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| Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July. |
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| Cheryl and Ashley Cole are granted a divorce at the High Court after four years of marriage. |
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| A group that campaigns against conceptual art claims 15 works by the artist Damien Hirst were inspired by other artists. |
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| Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers? |
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| Tony Blair used alcohol as a 'prop' during his time in power but how many of us do the same? |
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| Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month. |
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| Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs. |
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| A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts. |
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| New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama. |
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| In an attempt to reach people who do not normally go to the cinema, Shetland film festival is targeting their pets. |
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| Hundreds of sharks have been spotted off the Queensland coast. |
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| A man sailing the sea in a bath tub, mud sculptures and an ugly fish who finds love - it's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne. |
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| A team of divers say they have found the world's oldest drinkable beer in a shipwreck off the coast of Finland. |
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| Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board. |
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| A glimpse on board the UK's new stealth submarine |
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| Why bed-bug infestations are on the rise again |
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| How far can BMW stretch the brand before it snaps? |
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| How much is a bottle of beer under new price laws on booze? |
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| Why aren't black American children taught to swim? |
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| Does the NHS do enough for non-English speakers? |
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