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Wayne Rooney is still expected to travel to Switzerland for England’s Euro 2012 qualifier despite allegations about his private life.
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The group of miners in Chile trapped underground for a month have been talking to their families on a video link.
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Israel carries out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another.
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A suicide car bombing at a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan has killed five people and wounded at least 26 others.
Security officials said the bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into the gate of the camp near Buynaksk.
Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency said the casualties were all military.
Shootings and bombings have become frequent in Dagestan, which is battling an increasingly assertive Islamist insurgency.
Earlier, Dagestan’s minister for national, religious and foreign affairs, Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, was wounded in a car bombing in the region’s capital, Makhachkala, along with two bodyguards. His driver was killed.
Dagestan is in the North Caucasus, which has long suffered Islamist and separatist violence. Violence has recently spread from Chechnya to neighbouring republics.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that ending acute poverty in the region is vital for restoring stability.
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Nine people, including four foreigners, have been killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand, say reports.
The plane, owned by a skydiving company, burst into flames shortly after taking off at the tourist spot of Fox Glacier on the South Island.
The dead tourists were from England, Ireland, Australia and Germany, said police. The pilot and the other four passengers were all local.
None of the passengers has yet been identified.
The plane was reported to be a Fletcher fixed-wing aircraft, commonly used in the area.
Officials said it crashed shortly after leaving the Fox Glacier airstrip at about 1330 local time (0130GMT).
An eyewitness told the New Zealand Herald: “It was like a fireball and then there was big puffs of smoke going up. [The plane] was engulfed in flames immediately.”
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Officials in New Zealand have been evaluating the damage caused in the city of Christchurch by an earthquake and its many aftershocks.
Prime Minister John Key said at least 90 buildings suffered significant damage and many of them would probably have to be knocked down.
An overnight curfew has been lifted, but the centre of the city remains cordoned off, Radio New Zealand said.
Mr Key said a storm heading towards the city could cause further damage.
The mayor of the city, Bob Parker, described the damage as immense, and a state of emergency has been declared.
He said it was an “absolute miracle” that no-one had died.
There are thousands of earthquakes in New Zealand every year but very few do any damage.
The earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island in the early hours of Saturday morning, when most people were asleep.
The epicentre was 20km (13 miles) west of Christchurch, according to New Zealand’s government-owned research organisation GNS Science.
New Zealand’s Civil Defence estimated that more than 500 buildings had been damaged in the region.
Power has largely been restored in Christchurch, but large parts of the city still have no running water.
Those with running water have been warned not to drink it because of contamination from broken sewage pipes.
“You have to boil your water very carefully,” resident Oriana Toasland told the BBC. “You’re not allowed to flush the toilet because there’s problems with the sewers. So we don’t know how long this is going to go on for as well.”
During the night following the earthquake, 19 aftershocks were reported by the GeoNet website.
One family in Darfield, near the epicentre of the quake, reported spending the night under their dining table.
Two men were seriously injured by falling masonry and glass, but there have been no reports of fatalities.
New Zealand lies at the southern end of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, and above an area of the Earth’s crust where the Pacific Plate converges with the Indo-Australian Plate.
The country experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0.
The last fatal earthquake was in 1968, when a 7.1-magnitude tremor killed three people on the South Island’s western coast.
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A suicide car bombing at a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan kills five people and wounds at least 26 others.
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Thousands of tonnes of US military equipment have been moved out of Iraq but plenty has been left behind – and not just for the troops who remain there.
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Phone hack claims in some papers
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Dozens of fishing communities have been affected by the BP oil spill The BP well which spilled 206m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico poses no further risk to the environment, says the US official leading the clean-up.
Adm Thad Allen made the announcement after engineers replaced a damaged valve on the sea bed.
The failure of a similar blowout preventer is thought to have caused the oil spill, the worst in modern times.
That faulty device has been brought to the surface and will be examined as part of an enquiry into the leak.
Engineers plan to pump concrete from a second relief well to seal the ruptured well for good.
That operation is expected to begin some time in the coming week.
The flow of oil was stopped more than a month ago, but there had been fears the well could start leaking again under pressure.
BP has pledged $20bn to compensate Gulf residents harmed by the spill, and has pledged millions more to study the spill’s environmental impact and to promote tourism in the Gulf Coast states affected.
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Sgt Mark Andrews dragged the woman across the police station A policeman is facing the sack after he was caught on CCTV throwing a woman into a cell, badly injuring her.
The footage also shows Sgt Mark Andrews dragging the woman across the floor of Melksham police station in Wiltshire.
The woman, now 59, was arrested in July 2008 after being found asleep in her car. Her treatment left her with facial injuries and needing hospital care.
Andrews has been convicted of causing the woman actual bodily harm and is expected to be dismissed from his job.
His victim, who has not been named, said: “I thought I was going to die, by people that you trust.
“You can’t imagine it. They’re the people that you trust, so who do you trust after that?
“You don’t treat somebody – even if you’ve found them guilty of the worst possible thing you can possibly imagine – you don’t put them in a situation where they have to be in hospital twice in one day, do you?”
The case was brought after one of Andrews’ colleagues reported the matter to senior officers, who have apologised to the woman.
Assistant Chief Constable Patrick Geenty said: “We’ve had no other complaints like this, of this severity in custody in Wiltshire. So it’s a completely disgraceful incident.
“It’s one that we are appalled about and it’s one that we will learn the lessons from.”
Andrews, who has been suspended on full pay since his conviction, is due to be sentenced for the assault at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. He is also to face a police misconduct hearing.
BBC home affairs correspondent Steve Brodie said he understood that the officer would be sacked.
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Rescuers were able to dig 20 survivors out of the bus A state of emergency has been declared in Guatemala, where days of heavy rain have caused widespread flooding and landslides.
At least 18 people have been killed, including at least 10 who died when a bus was engulfed by a mudslide.
President Alvaro Colom said the rains had undone all the reconstruction work completed since Tropical Storm Agatha, which killed 165 people in May.
He has asked congress to approve emergency funds for rebuilding.
Days of heavy rains have saturated Guatemala’s mountainous terrain, causing hillsides to collapse suddenly and without warning.
The worst landslide buried a packed bus as it travelled on the main Inter-American highway, west of the capital Guatemala City.
At least ten people were killed, and emergency workers had to dig through thick mud to rescue 20 others from the wreckage.
In the western region of Quetzaltenango, a family of four died when their home was buried by a mudslide.
At least four other deaths have been reported around the country.
More than 100km (65 miles) of the Inter-American highway has been closed to all traffic, and many other roads have been blocked.
A bridge that was replaced after being destroyed by Tropical Storm Agatha has again been smashed by floods, cutting the main route to the southwest of the country.
President Colom said the rains had “destroyed all the work that has been done in the last few weeks” and caused damage estimated at up to half a billion dollars (£330m).
He said he would also propose a special tax to help fund reconstruction.
Guatemala’s national meteorological service forecast that the rains would continue for another 48 hours.
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There have been regular protests in Bahrain since the arrests of the Shia activists began in August Prosecutors in Bahrain have accused 23 Shia activists of planning to overthrow the state’s Sunni-dominated government.
The men, arrested since mid-August, belonged to a “sophisticated terrorist network” that was planning and executing a “campaign of violence and subversion”, an official said.
There has been a series of Shia-led protests in the Gulf state ahead of October’s parliamentary election.
Bahrain’s majority Shia community has long complained of discrimination.
“This sophisticated terrorist network with operations inside and outside Bahrain has undertaken and planned a systematic and layered campaign of violence and subversion aimed squarely at undermining the national security of Bahrain,” public prosecution official Abdulrahman al-Sayed said in a statement.
“The leaders of the network have been accused of several crimes including the planning and instigation of violence, conducting a wide-ranging propaganda campaign against the Kingdom and seeking to overthrow the regime by force,” his statement continued.
Bahrain is unique in all the states of the Arabian Peninsula in that it has a Shia majority, roughly 65% of the population.
However, the ruling elite is Sunni. Shia Bahrainis say they have been discriminated against for years.
Among those being charged is Abd al-Jalil Singace, head of the Shia-dominated Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy.
He was arrested in August on his return from London where he had been giving a lecture on human rights in Bahrain.
The secretary general of the Haq Movement, Husain Mshaim, is also being charged.
Mr Singace was arrested with four other activists in 2009 and held for several months on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.
He later received a royal pardon after weeks of protests.
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Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm as it swept past the US East Coast Tropical Storm Earl has reached the eastern Canadian coast, following a rapid acceleration.
Earl was heading north-east at 74km/h (46mph), with maximum sustained winds estimated at 111km/h, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.
But the centre said it was unclear whether the storm had accelerated back to hurricane strength when it made landfall in Nova Scotia.
It said it had received reports of 70,000 power cuts.
Canadian authorities said Earl made landfall near the boundary between Shelburne and Queens counties at about 1030 (1330 GMT).
Winds were reported to have toppled trees and flooded roads.
Hurricane Earl had earlier been downgraded to a tropical storm as it continued up the east coast of the US.
Strong winds and heavy rain lashed Long Island and Cape Cod as the storm passed by.
Officials said the storm caused only minor flooding and power cuts on the US mainland.
On Monday, the then-Hurricane Earl battered north-eastern Caribbean islands and Puerto Rico, causing power cuts and flooding.
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Former head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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