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Designs for new nuclear reactors 'unsafe'

Major setback for energy plans as report finds flaws in US and French models Britain's main safety regulator threw the government's energy plans into chaos tonight by damning the nuclear industry's leading designs for new...

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Funeral tribute to 'family man'

Sjt Scott lived in Edinburgh with his wife and two children The widow of a North Yorkshire soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan has paid tribute to him at his funeral. Serjeant Phillip Scott, 30, from Malton, died in Sangin...

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What is Dubai and who runs it?

Dubai's government could soon be bankrupt if it does not receive support From the pinnacle of the world economic boom to the brink of bankruptcy, Christopher Davidson of Durham University explains some of the background to the...

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Dubai on the brink - latest developments

Stock markets around the world have been rocked by the announcement that Dubai World will suspend repaying $35bn of its debts for six months. Is a country that has become synonymous with excess now on the brink of a spectacular...

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Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf a hit on streets of Dhaka

Mabul generally sells six copies of the book in a day Booksellers touting their wares amid the heavy traffic in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, have discovered an unusual best-seller. Adolf Hitler's autobiography manifesto Mein...

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Overseas help to tune instruments

The team from Indonesia used angle grinders to reshape the bronze intruments Oxford University has had to bring in experts from Java in Indonesia to retune some rare musical instruments. The instruments of the gamelan orchestra...

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Twitter Japan to introduce micropayments

Twitter Japan is going to introduce paid for premium accounts from next January, according to local reports. By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent Twitter Japan has acted like a testbed for the company and...

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Obituary: Neil Kearney

Inspirational trade union leader with international influence Neil Kearney, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, was an inspirational leader in the international trade union movement. As general secretary of the...

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Battling Siberia's illegal loggers

Russia sends huge quantities of timber to China (EIA picture) Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km (4,971 miles) east of Moscow. They are waiting to cross the...

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Not so special anymore

The transatlantic relationship has not historically been an easy one Some sharp comments by a former British ambassador to Washington during the Iraq inquiry have again cast doubt on the strength of the so-called "special...

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