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Britain’s Andy Murray goes out of the US Open after suffering a dramatic slump against 25th seed Stanislas Wawrinka.
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The number of foreign students let into the UK is “unsustainable”, minister Damian Green will say in his first major speech on immigration.
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The worst landslides were on the main road linking Guatemala with Mexico Emergency services in Guatemala say up to 100 people are feared to have been buried by landslides on the main highway linking it with Mexico.
The fire department said dozens of people were trying to dig a bus out of a mudslide when a second one engulfed them.
Across Guatemala, 36 people have been confirmed dead in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain.
President Alvaro Colom has called the situation a national tragedy.
He has visited the site where rescuers are digging frantically to find people buried in thick mud.
“This weekend alone we have seen damage comparable to what we experienced with Agatha”, Mr Colom said, referring to a tropical storm that killed 165 people in May.
The government had already advised people to stay off the road after 12 people were killed when another bus was engulfed by a mudslide on a different stretch of the same road on Saturday.
More than 100km (65 miles) of the Inter-American highway is closed to all traffic, and many other roads have been blocked.
Days of heavy rains have saturated Guatemala’s mountainous terrain, causing hillsides to collapse suddenly and without warning.
President Colom said the rains had undone all the reconstruction work completed since Tropical Storm Agatha.
On Saturday he declared a state of emergency and asked congress to approve emergency funds for rebuilding.
He said he would also propose a special tax to help pay for reconstruction, saying there were not enough funds available to deal with the disaster.
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Mr Blair used the UK’s G8 presidency in 2005 to push the issue of climate change World leaders may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming, Tony Blair has warned.
He said politicians did not have to wait for chaotic climate change in order for them to act.
The risks of not cutting emissions, given the potentially massive consequences, was enough to justify action, he told BBC Radio 4.
The former prime minister added that it had always been a struggle to explain the uncertainties in climate science.
He told Radio 4’s Uncertain Climate documentary: “It’s very hard to say ‘this is the precise warming there’s going to be, this is the maximum amount you can allow this (emissions) to continue’.”
He took advice while in 10 Downing Street from the government chief scientist at the time, Professor David King and the President of the Royal Society, Lord May.
“They were very rightly and properly saying there’s areas of uncertainty here but if you want a judgement from us as government scientists, then our judgement is this is a serious problem that needs global action to deal with it,” he added.
“I was never in the situation of total certainty here and indeed I always used to say to the NGO people (pressure groups) and others (to) be careful you don’t end up in a situation where you are claiming that something is certain when it isn’t absolutely certain.
“But it doesn’t need to be certain for us to act. It just needs to be likely, probable or actually even – if you look at the consequences possible because if you find out 2030 or 2040 ‘that was a real problem, we should have dealt with that’, you’re going to pay a pretty heavy price in history.”
In the first part of the documentary, broadcast last week, Mr Blair said he did not agree with Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband who called climate sceptics “flat earthers” and “deniers”.
He said these were the wrong terms as the science contained uncertainties. He said it was far better to express the issue as one of risk.
The documentary points out that under Mr Blair’s tenure as prime minister, emissions in the UK actually rose if embedded emissions from goods imported into the UK were included in the national figures.
The second part of Uncertain Climate will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 6 September 2010 at 0900 BST and 2130 BST
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A police officer who was caught on CCTV injuring a woman by throwing her into a cell faces being dismissed.
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The miners’ families have been camping at the San Jose mine since the tunnel collapse a month ago Relatives of 33 miners trapped underground in Chile have held a ceremony to mark one month since the mineshaft collapsed.
They sounded horns and whistles as a flag for each miner was planted in the ground at the estimated time the cave-in happened on 5 August.
The miners names were read out to loud shouts of “Viva!” from the crowd.
Engineers were about to start drilling a second rescue tunnel to increase their chances of reaching the miners.
It is not known which rescue shaft will reach the miners first, but the work is expected to take between two and four months.
The first drill has so far penetrated only 50m (164ft) of the 700m (2,300ft) of rock separating the men from the surface.
On Saturday, relatives were able to speak to the miners via video link for the first time.
Each miner spoke for a minute with their families thanks to a fibre optic cable.
The families could see and hear the miners, but the miners could only hear them.
Omar Reygadas, whose father is trapped in the mine, told the BBC the contact had raised spirits.
“He told us he was very well. He had shaved and cut his hair. It was beautiful,” he said.
“We told him: ‘We love you, we are waiting for you here, keep your spirits up.'”
The families were able to speak to their families via video conference for the first time on Saturday Some others said the miners were becoming demoralised as the reality sunk in that it would be many weeks before they could get out.
“They were angry, because fatigue was beginning to set in,” said Alejandro Zamora, whose brother Victor is trapped in the mine.
“My brother was so angry he was not able to speak,” he told the AFP news agency. “He was not in a very good mood.
The miners have become national heroes in Chile since 22 August, when a drill probe reached the underground shelter where they had survived for 17 days without contact with the outside world.
Many had given them up for lost, but they had kept alive underground by rationing emergency food supplies.
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John Toshack is on the verge of quitting as Wales manager after the defeat in Montenegro, BBC Sport understands.
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Ms Ashtiani’s family say they have not been allowed to contact her in prison for two weeks The Vatican has said it could appeal diplomatically to Iran to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
The statement followed a plea for help from the son of the woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, in an interview with an Italian news agency.
After an international outcry, Iranian officials temporarily halted Ms Ashtiani’s stoning sentence in July.
However, campaigners fear Ms Ashtiani could still be hanged.
The Vatican said it was “following this affair with attention and commitment,” spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a statement.
“The Church’s position against the death penalty is well known and stoning is a particularly brutal form of it,” he said.
Fr Lombardi said the Vatican could use diplomatic channels to try to save Ms Ashtiani, but he told Associated Press news agency that no formal request to intervene had been made.
In an interview with the Italian news agency Adnkronos, Ms Ashtiani’s son Sajad Ghaderzadeh appealed to Pope Benedict XVI and the Italian government to help save his mother’s life.
Italy has strong economic relations with Iran.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini appealed to Tehran to consider “an act of clemency”.
On Saturday, Mr Ghaderzadeh said an Iranian judge had sentenced his mother to 99 lashes for “spreading corruption and indecency” over a photograph published in a British newspaper purportedly showing her without a head covering.
The photograph was published on 28 August but several days later the Times newspaper published an apology, saying the photograph was not of Ms Ashtiani, but of another Iranian woman.
In May 2006, a criminal court in East Azerbaijan province found Ms Ashtiani guilty of having had an “illicit relationship” with two men following the death of her husband. She was given 99 lashes.
But that September, during the trial of a man accused of murdering her husband, another court reopened an adultery case based on events that allegedly took place before her husband died.
Despite retracting a confession she said she had been forced to make under duress, Ms Ashtiani was convicted of “adultery while being married” and sentenced to death by stoning.
In August, Iranian TV aired what it said was a confession from Ms Ashtiani of her involvement in her husband’s 2005 murder.
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Search for dozens feared buried by Guatemalan mudslide
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A pub landlady has told how she discovered a car embedded in the wall of the men’s toilets.
Di Watson, from the Gredington Arms, in Llan y Pwll, near Wrexham, said she had been with customers on Saturday night when she heard a “massive bang”.
She said: “I knew exactly what had happened. It has happened before.”
The driver was taken to hospital with a suspected broken wrist. The A534 was closed overnight but has since reopened with one lane and traffic lights.
The accident happened on a bend on the A534 near Sandy Lane at Llan y Pwll.
“It’s like something out of a film set, with part of the car sticking out and the front sticking through the wall”
Di Watson Landlady, Gredington Arms
Ms Watson said: “I was in the restaurant with customers and we heard a massive bang.
“A car with several people had gone into the wall, flown through the air and embedded itself in the gents’ toilets.
“It’s like something out of a film set, with part of the car sticking out and the front sticking through the wall.”
The accident happened at about 2100 BST.
“I knew exactly what had happened because it’s happened before. Shortly after we took over the pub we had a car crash into it.”
She said she had previously asked the Highways Agency for a reduction in the speed limit on the road but had been told it was not possible.
The pub is still open after a structural engineer visited and said there was no danger.
“We’re still serving even with the car lodged in in the gent’s wall,” she said.
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Pakistan’s Yasir Hameed says a meeting he had with the News of the World that was secretly recorded has been “inaccurately reported” by the tabloid.
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A pub landlady has told how she discovered a car embedded in the wall of the men’s toilets.
Di Watson, from the Gredington Arms, in Llan y Pwll, near Wrexham, said she had been with customers on Saturday night when she heard a “massive bang”.
She said: “I knew exactly what had happened. It has happened before.”
The driver was taken to hospital with a suspected broken wrist. The A534 was closed overnight but has since reopened with one lane and traffic lights.
The accident happened on a bend on the A534 near Sandy Lane at Llan y Pwll.
“It’s like something out of a film set, with part of the car sticking out and the front sticking through the wall”
Di Watson Landlady, Gredington Arms
Ms Watson said: “I was in the restaurant with customers and we heard a massive bang.
“A car with several people had gone into the wall, flown through the air and embedded itself in the gents’ toilets.
“It’s like something out of a film set, with part of the car sticking out and the front sticking through the wall.”
The accident happened at about 2100 BST.
“I knew exactly what had happened because it’s happened before. Shortly after we took over the pub we had a car crash into it.”
She said she had previously asked the Highways Agency for a reduction in the speed limit on the road but had been told it was not possible.
The pub is still open after a structural engineer visited and said there was no danger.
“We’re still serving even with the car lodged in in the gent’s wall,” she said.
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Plumes of smoke rose over central Baghdad after the bomb attack on a military training base At least seven people died and more than 20 were hurt when suicide bombers targeted an army recruitment centre in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, witnesses say.
The explosions occurred outside the Rusafa military command headquarters at around 1100 (0800GMT).
The attack is the deadliest in Baghdad since US troops ended combat operations in Iraq four days ago.
The same compound was attacked by al-Qaeda in Iraq three weeks ago, when more than 50 recruits were killed.
The BBC’s correspondent in Baghdad, Gabriel Gatehouse, says there are varying eyewitness accounts of the incident on Sunday morning.
He says witnesses saw at least three suicide bombers attempting to storm the base on foot.
Two of the attackers were shot and killed by soldiers, causing two large explosions.
A third was injured, sparking a stand-off as soldiers tried to stop him detonating his explosives. But he too was later killed, our correspondent says.
The attack underlines the scale of the challenge facing the Iraqi security force, he adds.
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A major new exhibition of works by Andy Warhol focuses on a four-year period pivotal to his development as an artist.
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Police are trying to identify a badly-burnt body found on a golf course in East Sussex.
Members of the Dyke Golf Club near Brighton made the discovery between the 17th and 18th holes on Saturday.
Sussex police have been unable to establish the age or sex of the body, which has remained at the site during the investigations.
Det Ch Insp Trevor Bowles said “at least one foot” was missing below the shin.
Officers are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
Mr Bowles, from the force’s Major Crime Branch, said: “The body has been badly burnt and at this stage we are unable to confirm the gender or estimate the age.
“However, it is clear that at least one foot is missing below the shin.
“We will try to determine at post-mortem whether this was before or after death occurred, but the body will remain in situ for the immediate future while our investigations at the scene continue.”
Mark Stuart-William, 36, head professional at the club, said the last three holes on the course were closed off while police conducted inquiries.
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