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Energy Secretary Chris Huhne confirms he is separating from his wife and is in another relationship.

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Up to 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic from drinking water in recent decades, according to a study in The Lancet.

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Police consider reopening an inquiry into a GP who admitted hastening the deaths of people in his care.

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Dinara Safina and Maria Sanchez join Croatian Ivo Karlovic and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic on the Wimbledon injury list.

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A student beach festival should not be held at Pembrey Country Park again, despite its success this year, the local mayor says.

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Gunmen attack Yemen’s security headquarters in Aden, killing at least 10 security officers and freeing militants.

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China indicates it will allow the yuan to rise, after Western criticism it is being kept artificially low, but releases no details.

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BP denies claims by one of its partners that its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill amounts to “gross negligence”.

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At least three people die in a suspected US missile strike in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan, intelligence officials say.

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Supporters of Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi mark her 65th birthday, as world leaders call for her release.

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The UN announces a flash appeal for Kyrgyzstan, where it says 400,000 people have been displaced by inter-ethnic fighting.

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A GP, struck off for giving morphine to 18 dying patients, is reported to have admitted he hastened their deaths.

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Prime Minister David Cameron says the budget deficit will not be dealt with by “just hitting either the rich or the welfare scrounger”.

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A British World War II veteran who led a team of Commandos that seized a key German port, allowing the Allies to then secure Denmark, is to be honoured.

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Is it ever OK to boo your own football team?

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